Shameless (The Contemporary Collection) by Blake Jennifer

Author:Blake, Jennifer [Blake, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Steel Magnolia Press
Published: 2013-04-25T21:00:00+00:00

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REID RECOGNIZED TOO WELL THE COLD ENMITY that held him as he stared down at the man whimpering on the floor. It was the detachment that allowed him to kill, if need be, without an excess of regret. There was an added element this time, however. He was watching in quiet anticipation for an excuse.

His contempt for men who used their superior strength to terrorize women was virulent. A man who would do that to Cammie deserved whatever came to him. He waited with a silent prayer that Keith Hutton had a weapon and would try to use it.

“Reid?”

He heard Cammie's voice as if from a great distance. She came toward him, approaching with slow steps in the dim light, using every care to remain in his line of vision. Her caution and apparent fear of him touched him with remorse, penetrating his defenses as nothing else could.

His gaze traveled slowly from the tumbled silk of her hair to the shadow made by the vivid patch of color on her cheek, and lower, to the gentle shape and movement under the thin white cotton of her nightgown. Like a fog lifting, he felt his sense of being separate from his soul leaving him. He regretted it. He didn't want, didn't need, the acute, driving sensual awareness that took its place.

She put out her hand, barely grazing his shoulder with her fingertips. He felt each single touch like a series of stabbing electric shocks. The urge to take her right then and there, to bury himself in her seductive softness and blot out the world, ripped through him with hurricane force. It stopped his breath and left him with every muscle rigid in the effort of containment.

“Don't,” she whispered.

Don't kill Keith?

Don't take her?

Don't control himself, so that he might do both?

The need to be positive of what she wanted — and why — cleared his brain. He relaxed with consummate effort and in minute degrees, easing his stance over Keith, retreating a fraction from her so that her hand fell away from his sleeve.

There were some things he would not relinquish. He was not sure when the decision was made, but he would not fight it. He did not intend to let the woman in front of him out of his sight again soon, not for hours, at least not for the rest of the night.

Bending, Reid dragged Keith to his feet. He ignored the other man's groans and curses as he frog-marched him from the room with strength fueled by brutally repressed urges. He knew Cammie followed after them, but it made no difference. Shoving her husband through the great room and out onto the porch, he used the man's body to thrust the screen door open, then ejected him into the night.

Keith stumbled forward, then caught himself. Slewing around, he planted his feet and knotted his fists. “Just who the hell do you think you are?” he yelled.

“The man who will kill you if you ever try a stunt like this again,” Reid answered evenly.

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