Stay the Night by Lynn Viehl

Author:Lynn Viehl
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Chris didn’t like waking up in Robin’s lap, or being hustled off the jet before she could get her bearings. She’d slept too hard; her head felt like an overstuffed flotation device.

The erotic dream of the night they had spent together came rushing back over her, but it had been different this time. She’d told him things that she had never mentioned that night, like how she had been abandoned by her mother, and how easily she knew she could fall for him.

Her, in love. With a thief.

He and his friends had wrecked a federal investigation and put Ray Hutchins in terrible danger. And if he was the Magician, as he’d claimed, that meant that he was also responsible for what had happened to DeLuca. When this was over it was her job—her sworn duty—to make sure that Robin went to prison for the crimes he had committed.

Chris pressed the heel of her hand to the dull pain throbbing behind her left eye. I am not falling in love with the international art thief who made Norman commit suicide.

As they walked through the gate and approached customs, she saw a kiosk selling canned soft drinks. She felt thirsty, but the aftertaste of the ginger ale she’d drunk on the plane still lingered in her mouth, as bitter as if she’d chewed an aspirin.

She skidded to a halt as she realized why. “You bastard. You drugged me.”

“Yes, I did.” Robin smiled and kept hold of her arm, marching her toward the uniformed Italian agent. “You needed the rest. We will talk about it later.”

“We’ll talk about it now,” she insisted, trying to stop him and shaken to find she couldn’t. “You lied to me. You told me the drink wasn’t drugged.”

“I told you it wasn’t poisonous.” He lifted the long, oddly shaped case he carried onto the table between them and the customs agent. “The tranquilizer was harmless.”

Chris turned her hand, gripping his as hard as she could. “What did I tell you?”

“Nothing.”

“I don’t believe you. It wasn’t a tranquilizer; it was Rohypnol or something, wasn’t it? Did you question me while I was under?”

“Now, now, love,” he chided, glancing at the frowning customs agent. “I gave you a Valium so that you could sleep through the long flight from America. Which you did. Please stop trying to make this official think otherwise.”

So what she had said about her mother and falling in love had been just a dream. “That’s right. I forgot.” She smiled at the agent, and said under her breath, “Don’t you ever do that to me again.”

“I won’t.” He leaned over to kiss her cheek and murmured, “I want you awake for everything else I’m going to do to you.”

“Aside from helping me recover the manuscript, that will be absolutely nothing,” she assured him.

Rob smiled a little as he brushed his knuckles against the place on her cheek where he’d pressed his mouth. “We will see about that.”

Chris expected Robin to produce a pair of phony

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