Secret Hideout by Graves Paula

Author:Graves, Paula [Graves, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2012-04-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

She was out of control. A rush of emotions flooded her chest—fear, need, anger, joy, desire—and flowed through her into the hands that moved with fierce determination across his flat belly, pushing up the T-shirt he wore beneath his flannel shirt until her fingers tangled in the crisp, dark hair of his chest. Bending her head, she kissed the center of his sternum, feeling his heart pounding against her lips.

His fingers caught in her hair, drawing her up to face him. “We can’t do this. You know we can’t.” He was trying to sound tough and logical, but she knew even better than he did how out of character it was for him to try to be the voice of reason.

That was her job in the partnership, keeping his flights of intuitive fancy from soaring too close to the sun. Of course, she wasn’t doing much grounding at the moment, was she?

“I don’t know anything anymore,” she admitted, kissing his stubbled jaw. “I just know that if I have to leave you tomorrow, I don’t want to leave anything unsaid or unfelt.”

“You don’t need to say anything.” His voice came out in the faintest of whispers. “But neither of us is thinking clearly at the moment, and that’s not a good thing—”

To her dismay, he eased her off him and stood up, moving toward the door without even looking at her.

“Scanlon—”

He stopped in the doorway but didn’t turn. “Please don’t make this more difficult.”

“I don’t think it can get more difficult than what you put me through already,” she said, frustration making her unleash a little of the pent-up anger she felt. “You let me think you were dead for six long months. And that the bomb that killed you was really meant for me. So don’t try to pretend anything that happens now will be more difficult than that. Don’t you dare.”

“There was no other way—”

“You could have trusted me.”

He turned around then, his blue eyes blazing. “And you’d have been right in the middle of everything, trying to help me. Just like you are now.”

“You know what I’ve realized?” she asked. “We’re not nearly as good when we work apart. Don’t you think there’s a reason why you’ve been here six months and made only a little headway into infiltrating the Swains?”

“Why’s that?” His voice was faint with annoyance, but she could tell he knew she was right.

“Because we are so much more together than we can ever be apart.” She crossed to where he stood and caught his hands in hers. “I ground you so you don’t go too far afield. You challenge me so I don’t become hidebound by logic and rules. Alone, we try to play both roles, but we’re no good at it.”

He closed his eyes and bent his head until their foreheads touched. “I want you here, Cooper. And, God forgive me, if the Swains weren’t after you, I’d keep you here with me.”

Tears burned her eyes, but she blinked them back. “I’m willing to take the risk.

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