The Bodyguard's Assignment by Amanda Stevens

Author:Amanda Stevens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Who were you talking to, Grace? Who’d you call?”

He unfolded himself from the door frame and moved toward her in the bedroom. She backed away from him, like an animal trapped by a predator.

“No one.”

“You’re not as good a liar as I remembered. Or else you’re losing your touch.”

She shoved back a stray curl almost fiercely. “I told you before—I never lied to you.”

“Then why start now?” He’d stalked her across the room, and now she was edged against the bed, with nowhere to run to. She was tall enough so that she only had to tip her head slightly to look him in the eye. Brady had always liked that about her. She was his equal in every way, but right now he had the upper hand, and he was damn well going to keep it that way.

“Let’s try this again,” he said calmly. “Who were you talking to?”

“I don’t owe you any explanations, Brady. This has nothing to do with you.”

“The hell it doesn’t.”

She lifted her chin. “You were sent here to protect me, but I didn’t ask for that protection. I don’t even want it. So I’m not going to answer to you or anyone else. This is my business.”

He grabbed for the phone, but she jerked it away. For a moment, the two of them scuffled like two kids fighting over a toy. When he finally wrested the phone away from her, he checked the display. It was clear. She had fast reflexes. He’d give her that.

He tossed the phone on the bed, then took her by the shoulders almost gently. “What does Kane have on you? What’s he threatening you with?”

When she didn’t answer, he tightened his grip only slightly. “I could help you if you’d let me.”

“The only way you can help me is to take me back to Dallas.”

“That’s not going to happen. And since you’ve proven to me that I can’t trust you not to get yourself killed—” He released her long enough to whip out the handcuffs from his back pocket.

Her gaze widened. “You wouldn’t do that. Not now—”

He flicked them open. “Don’t make this any harder than it has to be, Grace.”

“I’m supposed to just stand here docilely while you restrain me?” she said bitterly.

“It’d be better if you lie down.”

“Don’t do this, Brady. Please.” Her blue eyes were soft and pleading, but he knew it was only a momentary lapse. Grace could be hard as nails when she wanted to be. “If I ever meant anything to you—”

“You don’t want to go there,” he warned her. “Trust me.”

He took her wrist and placed the handcuff around it. He expected her to put up one hell of a fight, like she had over the phone, but instead, she lay back on the bed, resting her head against the pillows. He placed a knee on the bed, leaning over her to fasten the other handcuff to the iron railing of the headboard.

A tear eased from the corner of her eye and rolled back into her hair.

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