Strangers When We Meet by Merline Lovelace

Author:Merline Lovelace [Lovelace, Merline]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: suspense
Publisher: Harlequin Romantic Suspense
Published: 2011-06-02T05:00:00+00:00

Across the parking lot, Dodge paced the confines of his living room. The gray skies and icy drizzle had him feeling caged and restless and totally frustrated.

Aw, hell! Who was he kidding? It wasn’t the weather that had him tied up in knots. It was a certain blue-eyed major.

He was damned if he could rationalize kissing her. Not once, but twice. He knew how dangerous it was to mix business with pleasure. Especially in his kind of business.

He’d also been burned once, badly. True, he’d been young and stupid enough to confuse lust with love. Also true, he’d refused to recognize the signs that she’d tired of him until he came home to find her gone. He’d done a damned good job since that humiliating experience of keeping his relationships with women loose and easy.

Not that he could claim anything resembling a relationship with Lara Petrovna. In addition to the fact that she was a Russian and a missile officer and his target, she was as prickly as a cactus. Yet her barriers had slipped enough for him to glimpse the woman behind them, and she pulled at him like none other had in longer than he could remember.

So now he’d opened a door he was finding damned hard to shut. Added to that, this business with Hank Barlow was eating into his gut. Almost as much as being sideswiped by a stolen SUV. From all appearances, the two incidents were unrelated but Dodge couldn’t shake the suspicion they fit in some way. He was still trying to jam the pieces of the puzzle together when the phone in his quarters rang some hours later.

“Hamilton.”

“This is Sergeant Rafferty at the wing command post, sir. Colonel Yarboro wants you to report to Major Petrovna’s quarters immediately.”

Dodge’s glance whipped to the window. Although the rain had fogged the panes, he could see her building clearly. See, too, the vehicle that came screeching to a halt just outside it. Paul Handerhand of the OSI jumped out, while another vehicle with the distinct markings of the security forces pulled up behind Handerhand’s.

Dodge’s gut twisted. The sudden, all-consuming fear that something had happened to Lara had him slamming the phone down and racing for the door.

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