Take the Bait by Cindy Dees

Author:Cindy Dees
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

HE’D HAD SOME good sex in his day, but nothing—nothing—compared to what he and Dani had just done. The intellectual and emotional connection he felt with her made all the difference in the world. Here, he’d spent all those years chasing the most beautiful women he could find, when really he ought to have been chasing the ones who were smart and made him laugh. He felt like a gigantic fool on the one hand, but the luckiest guy in the world on the other hand.

Rain still pattered against the tall casement windows over the quiet crackle of the fire. “Stay the night?” he murmured.

Another first. Normally, he couldn’t wait to get women out of his bed and out of his house so he could get some peace and quiet. But he actually wanted Dani to stick around. He loved the idea of falling asleep with their legs tangled together and her bright red hair spread across his chest. He wanted to smell her on his pillows in the morning.

She made an inarticulate sound against his neck that he would take as a yes.

“Can you move?” Personally, he felt like he had no bones. She’d burned them all to ash somewhere in the volcanic heat of their lovemaking.

Another sound. This time it sounded negative.

“Me, neither,” he sighed. Frankly, he was pretty damned okay just sprawling with her on the sofa, naked with her in front of the fire listening to it rain for a while.

Which was, of course, the cue for a cell phone to jangle somewhere close by.

“Crap. Mine,” she groaned.

He groaned as well as she rolled off him and laid across his lap, reaching down to her purse on the floor. Hark. Her pert, round tush was now sticking up in his lap while her pelvis rubbed tantalizing against his junk. “Mmm. I like this arrangement.”

She shot him a flirtatious grin over her shoulder as she stuck her cell phone to her ear. “Hi. This is Dani.” She listened for a moment and then lurched upright, frowning. “Is he okay?” Another short pause. “Can I see him now? Yeah. I’ll be right down. Thanks.”

Cam’s trouble radar went on full alert. “What’s up?” he asked quickly.

“My client. Alexei Koronov is in the hospital. Well, the infirmary at the jail. But he would normally be hospitalized.” She climbed to her feet and started collecting strewn bits of clothing.

“What happened?” he bit out as he followed suit and started pulling on his clothes.

She picked up the shredded remnants of her dress. “Crap. It’s destroyed.”

“Need to borrow a T-shirt?”

“As nice as that sounds, I have my business suit from this morning.” She stepped into the WMP regulation knee-length gray wool skirt and straightjacket. She transformed into an uptight corporate ice bitch before his eyes.

He gathered her into her arms as she reached behind her head to twist her hair up into some sort of casual bun. “Do you have any idea how hot it is to see you in

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