Stand alone - The Geek Job by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais [Langlais, Eve]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2005-06-28T22:41:59+00:00

Chapter Eight

“You asshole,” Lexie swore as she knelt down beside her prone geek.

“What? You had a better way of announcing you’d come to visit from the dead?” Frederick drawled, leaning back against the stainless steel counter. “Why not kiss him and see if he awakes like a true sleeping beauty.”

“Just get out and let me take care of this.”

“By al means. Feel free to do so naked. I would dearly love a video to go with my soundtrack.” Frederick chuckled as he walked away, then cursed as she tripped him and he smashed to the floor. “Evil bitch.”

“Dead dick walking,” she retorted. She ignored the leaving vampire as Anthony stirred, his eyes blinking behind his large lenses. She knew when he saw her because they widened and he sucked in a breath.

“Lexie?” He reached a hand up to touch her face and she couldn’t stop herself from leaning into his touch. He sat up and before she knew it, he’d pul ed her to him and latched his mouth to hers. Startled, she didn’t immediately pul away, and that gave him a chance to ignite the heat she remembered al too wel . Moisture pooled in her cleft, her nipples tightened and when he groaned against her mouth, she almost threw him on the floor to ravage and mark him.

With a soft cry, she broke the embrace and stood to move away. She heard the sound of him getting to his feet, then approaching. When he would have touched her, she sidled sideways, but turned to face him.

“Hel o, Anthony.”

“You’re alive? But how? And shouldn’t you stil be in bed? What stupid hospital released you already?” He fired questions at her and she took a steadying breath to feed him the lie she’d concocted. “It wasn’t as bad as it looked.” Feeble, but the best liars knew to keep it simple and to the point.

His brow creased. “Not as bad as it looked? You had a hole in your freaking chest.”

Lexie shrugged. “Not the first one, either. I heal fast. What can I say?”

She could see a storm of questions in his eyes, but given her pat answers, he bit them back in favor of, “Why are you here? How did you find me?” Final y, the moment of truth had arrived, in one respect anyway. “Frederick cal ed me.”

“My employer? But how did he know where to find you?”

“I do odd jobs for Frederick.” She could see the confusion on his face as his mind and heart refused to put the obvious together. She gritted her teeth as she spel ed it out. “I work for your boss. I just recently completed a job for him as a matter of fact.” She couldn’t mistake the moment al the pieces fel into place—his face tightened and his blue eyes turned arctic cold.

“You were paid to be with me,” he spat.

“Paid to protect you, which I did,” she amended, her voice husky as she fought the choking tears at his obvious anger.

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