Stealing Hearts_A Romance Novella by Rachel Shane

Author:Rachel Shane [Shane, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, love, con artist, Mystery
Publisher: Twinstar Press
Published: 2017-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Every since our conversation yesterday, I can’t stop thinking about him. His words. His outlook on life. His smoldering eyes.

His text message late last night: Hey, I just got a crazy idea. Don’t cook dinner tomorrow. I have a surprise for you instead.

I’m giddy when I arrive at his house, practically bouncing up and down in anticipation of the surprise. Colby takes his calls and his meals in his office, and I know it’s for the best. But my eyes continue to fly toward his door, hoping, hoping, hoping. I need a deep breath to tamp down my excitement long enough to bring breakfast into his room and when I finally enter, it takes concerted effort to force myself to leave. Galina checks in but even her guard seems to have relaxed, her strict orders to glue her gaze to me minimized. I tie my hands and restrain myself from searching for the brooch. Not now. Not yet. Not when Colby might actually be starting to trust me.

Even though he absolutely shouldn’t.

I throw myself into meal prep for breakfast and lunch, lovingly admiring each plate and biting my lip against the hope that he’s impressed. Hell, I’m impressed with myself.

“Stick around,” he tells me after I return to grab his dirty lunch dishes. Only a ring of handmade tomato soup remains in the bowl and a few sparse truffle butter grilled cheese crumbs dot the plate. When I first brought it in to him, Colby’s brows shout way up. I’ve been choosing the recipes for a few days now. “We’ll leave around four thirty.”

I inch closer to him despite my brain’s protests. “I can make a dessert to kill time?”

He waves his hand dismissively. “Nah. Just hang out by the pool or something. Galina can show you where a few unused bathing suits are from the last time my sister visited.”

His words tangle in my chest. He trusts me to have free reign of his house. This is a con artist’s dream. Once you have their trust, it’s much easier to sneak behind their backs…or right under their nose.

In the guesthouse, I do minor snooping, but I decide not to fuck him over just yet. If he catches me now, I’ll never get his trust back. I need to time my move right, when I know I won’t get caught. When he’s the most vulnerable.

I prove myself to him by baking in the hot sun in full view of his office window. My languid muscles sink into the lounge chair, and for the first time in a really long time, I allow myself to do absolutely nothing except ignore the thrum of anticipation that beats in my veins. My mind supplies a thousand scenarios for what his surprise for me might be, and each one ends the way it absolutely shouldn’t: with his arms around me. I jump into the pool so the cold water can seep into my pores and knock some damn sense into me. I can’t be feeling like this around him.

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