Seduced by Angel Payne

Author:Angel Payne
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947222342
Publisher: Waterhouse Press

Chapter Thirteen

Ethan didn’t bother shouting after her. It hadn’t worked yesterday, and it sure as fuck wasn’t going to work now. Instead, he skipped straight to catching up to her, hooking an arm around her waist, and hauling her into a nearby building that was thankfully unlocked. From the desks he’d glimpsed through the window, he guessed the place was a temporary production office. The assumption was right. The room also contained a bunch of filing cabinets, rolling chairs, and even a kitchenette with a single-cup coffee maker. As settings went, it was fine. He wasn’t too sure about the seething fireball of a woman still locked in his hold.

“Let me go!” Ava demanded.

“Stop kicking and I will.”

“I’ll scream.”

“Empty threat, sunshine. You’re doing a fine job of that right now.”

“Shut. Up. And take your goddamn hands off me!”

“Stop kicking first. Please.” Ironically, he summoned some Dom mojo to emphasize the last word.

“Ethan, if you don’t let me go—ahhh!”

He released her. And watched her fall right on her adorable ass. Because she’d been kicking so hard, she had no proper footing to stand.

Because of how you hurt her. How you’re still hurting her because of this ruse with Bella. And have to continue digging that damn knife into her, until that memory stick is found.

He turned, unable to contain his grimace. He’d done shitty things for this job but this capped the list. He hadn’t signed up to be lounging around a goddamn movie studio, playing James Bond games and earning himself a tormented glower from the woman he’d pursued across seven months and over a thousand miles. This woman he now had to treat like a possible suspect in this fucking thing, at least in the eyes of his team.

But if he went to Franz and came clean about everything, told him that Ava Chestain had passed his personal “body cavity search,” the captain would toss his ass onto a plane for home faster than anyone could yell Roll, mark, action. He couldn’t, wouldn’t, let that happen, not when Ava was working every day for a man with tight ties to terrorists who’d been pulling some scary, shifty shit lately. If he had to endure Ava’s hatred for that, so be it. She’d be pissed, but she’d be safe.

He held out a hand to help her up. Ava glared, shoved to her feet by herself, and then parked herself in one of the rolling chairs, pulling a hand through her hair in fury. Hell. She had to remind him of how the thick chocolate curls had felt between his fingers, didn’t she?

It took every ounce of concentration he had to keep his voice even. “Are you okay?”

“Do you care anymore?”

He caught her stare, afire with fury and pain, and answered quietly, “After last night, is that fair?”

She let out a bitter laugh. “After last night, should I have expected to come to work and find Bella straddling you like a lap dancer? Of course, after the two of you warmed up at the cast and crew meeting—”

“Bella and I share a past.

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