Texas Lightning by A Caprice

Author:A Caprice [Caprice, A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: KU 9.23.19
Published: 2019-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“So, really, how’d you do it?” she asked for the tenth time. Chase just gave her that satisfied smirk, the one he’d sent her way each time she questioned how he had convinced Garcia to give up his boss’s name. The arrogant curl of his lip was the standard red flag he enjoyed waving in front of her, but Andie didn’t miss the tight bunch of his shoulder muscles or the rapid tapping of his leg under the desk.

Something wasn’t right in Chase’s world, but whatever it was, he wasn’t talking.

She pushed her own uneasiness aside. After all, Chase had left Garcia unharmed. There hadn’t been a mark on the man. He’d been shaking like a leaf in a tornado but uninjured. She’d checked.

But they had a name. Vega. For the first time since she’d begun her investigation into NU-216, she was close enough to catching her perp she could see the finish line. The anticipation made her feel like she was mainlining caffeine. Her heart was galloping, her taste buds were tingling, and she felt hyper-aware.

Admittedly, that could have more to do with the extremely tall and sexy drink of water sitting next to her. She inhaled deeply, soaking in Chase’s scent. He smelled of cut grass and sunshine.

They were back in her hotel room. Chase sat hunched over his laptop at the room’s desk, his phone pressed between his ear and shoulder. She’d set up her workstation at the round table by the bed. The investigation was flowing, the information they’d learned about Tony Vega now able to fill a small notebook. The research was necessary, but it was desk work.

She cracked her neck. And typing on a computer and making calls just wasn’t hands on enough for her right now. She’d rather blacken an eye or two than do paperwork, any day of the week.

From the heavy sighs and glances out the window, Chase must have felt the same. He’d gone to his room when they’d returned to the hotel to report in to his bosses and change clothes. Andie had to work not to lick her lips when he knocked on her door wearing faded Levi’s and a black, cotton t-shirt so worn the Metallica logo was barely visible. The soft tee stretched tautly across his chest, and every time he pecked at his keyboard, the muscles in his arms flexed delightfully.

She swallowed. She wanted to bite him something bad.

Good lord, what was wrong with her? She was on the verge of closing the most important case of her career and instead of concentrating on work, she was fantasizing about nibbling up his biceps to sink her teeth into the corded tendons that ran between his neck and shoulder. This man had pushed all her buttons from the start, but juvenile as it was, since he had gotten Garcia to talk, his sexiness factor had doubled.

“You’re staring,” he said, not taking his eyes off his computer screen.

Her face heated. “Just trying to figure out how you did it,” she lied.

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