Shielded in the Shadows by Tara Taylor Quinn

Author:Tara Taylor Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-06T20:01:13+00:00

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Emma didn’t really want to talk about this case any further. Or any of them. She wanted to forget, for a few minutes at least, that someone was going to be pissed when she didn’t “leave it alone.” Whatever that meant.

And that whoever it was was fairly certain she’d know who he was. The only defendant she knew who’d ever given her cause to fear for her life was Bill Heber. The way he’d looked at her in the courtroom...there was no way she’d imagined the anger simmering beneath his surface. The only thing standing between him and his wife had been Emma and he wasn’t going to have that.

In the end, he’d been right. She hadn’t been able to stand between him and Suzie.

There was a new end in sight now. And she wasn’t backing down.

“Did you have a chance to check any of the drugstores for lipstick purchases?” she asked because they had to talk and she didn’t dare venture into conversation that would make her like Jayden Powell any more than she already did.

She wasn’t going to satisfy her curiosity where his life was concerned. Only his body.

Take it or leave it. That last was for her shadow side. The demon side that had been tempting her to throw all her lessons to the wind and hook up with the parole officer. If he’d have her.

One of her safety nets was that he didn’t want a relationship any more than she did. Even if she lost her mind and begged, he’d say no...right?

“Two of the three places that sell lipstick within the vicinity of Bill’s phone app activity have already been crossed off,” he said. “The third said that the clerk who’d been on all week would be in on Monday. I’ll check back then. And no, no one recognized him, or remembered any man buying lipstick.”

He could have picked it up at the big-box store at the edge of town, she thought to herself.

“What’s that?” Jayden was looking at the calendar on the side of her refrigerator. She never sat in that seat. Never noticed the calendar in view from there.

“A calendar.”

“It’s got X’s on most of the days. You counting down for something?”

So, this was embarrassing.

“It’s my cycle. So I’ll know when I’m ovulating.” Just one of those personal things that had nothing to do with him.

His face lost all expression. It was like he was there with her and then he wasn’t.

“You’re trying to have a baby?” She was pretty sure a guy couldn’t look more horrified.

“No!” Standing, she carried her plate to the sink. Poured a tad bit more wine. “Well...yes, but not right now,” she corrected herself, rinsing her plate and then moving back to get his. “I’m not using you for your sperm, if that’s what you’re afraid of. As a matter of fact, I’m making certain that we aren’t...satisfying this thing between us...when I’m ovulating.”

He stood, too, helping to clear the rest of the table. “Glad to have that cleared up.

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