Strange Tango by Michelle Dayton

Author:Michelle Dayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Kinney’s was just as dingy as Adam remembered from his last visit. Small, dark, and two miles off the Strip, few tourists made it in. Old school country and western music blared out of the jukebox in the corner, and a guy had been puking in the parking lot when his taxi dropped him off.

But it was worth it. Kinney’s was as off the grid as it was possible to be in Sin City.

In his wildest dreams, he’d never imagined taking Jess there. Even when he’d suggested the partnership and invited her to Vegas, he never conceived of the two of them spending time together in a dive bar away from the security cameras. Now, he may have daydreamed about the two of them off the cameras and naked in her hotel room. But not this. This was more like a...date?

She walked in the bar and every single muscle in his body tensed. Dressed simply in cut-off jeans and a faded red shirt, she outshone every other woman in the city. Tonight was the first time he’d ever seen her with her hair down. Dark and long, it lay down her back, falling just below her shoulder blades. The ends had brushed his knees when he sat behind her in the auditorium. He’d literally sat on his hands to keep from touching it.

“You’re not wearing your disguise.” He liked how her eyes raked over his face and chest. He wondered how low her eyes would have gone if the bottom half of him hadn’t been hidden by the high-boy table.

“Nope.”

“Just Jess and Adam tonight then?” His breath caught at the simple intertwining of their names. Jess and Adam.

He cleared his throat. “It’s a novelty,” he agreed.

“Sorry to keep you waiting,” she said. “There was a long cab line.”

He handed her a bourbon. “I’m good at waiting,” he said. “I do a lot of waiting in my line of work.” Ugh. He wanted to kick himself. She might have admitted to the physical attraction between them, but that didn’t mean she was ready for an open conversation about his day-to-day criminal activities.

She surprised him again. “Tell me about your work.” When he gave her a skeptical glance, she said, “Really. I promise to never repeat a word. I just want to know you a little.”

There was no guile in her gaze, and Adam’s chest started to ache. When was the last time he’d had an entirely honest conversation with a woman he was interested in? Never.

“Tell me about golf first,” he asked.

Jess rolled her eyes, but nodded. “Well, when you’re the only girl in a large family with no mom, you’ll do anything to get Daddy’s attention.” Her tone was bright and carefree, but her eyes looked sad. “My dad and most of my brothers were sports-crazy. They played baseball, soccer, basketball—everything. So, I did too, hoping that my dad would spend time with me after school or on weekends like he did with my older brothers. But I sucked at everything, so it didn’t work.

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