Suspenseful Starts by Erica Monroe

Author:Erica Monroe [Monroe, Erica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quillfire Publishing

There were many things that Daniel O’Reilly was not skilled at, but he could read the kiss of a woman like a journal in which she would transcribe all her secrets. He knew the difference between a kiss with passion and one where the lady was simply completing a professional act, for he certainly had locked lips with enough harlots these last three years back home in Surrey.

He would trade all those gin-fueled, desperate lays for this one kiss with Kate. He’d never wanted anything more than to be back with her, and no amount of drink or clumsy tups made him forget her. She was too deep in his soul, sunk into every part of him.

But now he had a chance with her. Because she wanted him as much as he wanted her.

He knew it as she pulled from him, swiping at her lips furiously. He knew it as she slid across the landing to lean against the solid wall, like her knees shook too much to hold her up. And most importantly, he knew it as her lightning-flash eyes and rosy cheeks wished him to hell.

“You surprised me,” she said, as if that could explain away everything.

“Were you caught unaware by your feelings for me, or by the memory of how much better I am than your current paramour?” He gestured toward the door, where she’d been in deep conversation with the other man before.

She scowled at him.

Damn it all, he couldn’t stop smirking. He picked her bonnet off the ground and handed it to her.

“Owen Neal is not my paramour, as you put it.” Kate addressed the second part of his question first. She set the bonnet back on her head, leaving the strings untied around her chin. “But even if he were, it would be none of your business.”

Owen Neal. Daniel stored that name in his mind to ask Atlas later for a full report. Not that it mattered in the end; he felt assured he would completely obliterate Owen from her memory soon.

Reaching for her, his hand brushed up against knotty wood instead of tender flesh as she scooted away from him.

“This changes nothing.” Her tone was flat. Gone was the ardent woman who had been in his arms mere minutes ago.

“It changes everything,” he argued. “You want me, Kate.”

“Even if I did, it doesn’t make a difference.” She stuffed her hands into the deep pockets of her greatcoat. “You can’t erase the last three years with one kiss, Daniel. I’m always going to know you as the man who broke my heart. So you can follow me, and you can knock on my door until two in the morning, but I’m not going to answer.”

“Wait, Kate, please don’t go.” He was too quick this time for her, catching hold of her blue plaid sleeve. She kept moving and he was towed along with her, unwilling to let her go again.

“I need you.” His chest shook with the effort of those three words. How could he make her believe him?

“And I needed you three years ago.

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