The Christmas Clue by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9780373692934
Google: MMpOI4qm27UC
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Matt skipped his turn.

And now his body was making him pay for it.

Unfulfilled need was a bear to deal with, and in his case it just kept on coming. It’d been hours since his encounter with Cass, and he’d given up good old-fashioned mental suppression and opted for the cold shower.

It didn’t help, either, but that was asking a lot from a shower.

So he stepped from the shower stall, dried off, dressed in his jeans and spare shirt and tried to figure out what the hell he was going to say to Cass. What did you say to a woman after you’d had your hands in her pants? He’d acted like a teenager, and that had to stop. He had to stay focused on the mission.

Bolstered by his mental lecture, Matt took a deep breath and came out of the bathroom.

The first thing he heard was Cass’s sigh.

Matt figured that wasn’t a good sign, especially since she was on the bed, volleying her attention between keeping watch out the window and reviewing Dominic’s security disks on his laptop.

She’d been looking at those disks for hours, since her own shower after their spontaneous make-out session. And other than those sighs, she wasn’t communicating much.

But then, neither was he.

Matt had considered apologizing. Heck, he’d even considered discussing the situation. But the truth was, there was no discussion needed. He’d violated a personal rule or two by giving her some release, but he damn sure didn’t regret it. That climax had stopped her trembling. It’d gotten her mind off the dead guy. If he had it to do all over again, he wouldn’t change a thing.

Well, except maybe finishing what he’d started.

That would have violated more than a rule or two, but with that slow hard ache in his body and the way she’d responded to it, it’d be worth some rule violations.

But since thinking about sex with Cass only made him want her more, he forced his mind back on his task, surveillance.

He grabbed the binoculars, and as he’d done most of the afternoon and early evening, he looked for any sign that someone had found the body they’d hidden in the shrubs. Or that someone was on the way to the cottage. But no one was headed their way.

It was just Cass and him.

He took his place in the chair right in front of the window, reached behind him and grabbed an energy bar from the food stash they’d bought on the drive to the estate. The bar would be dinner. He’d already had one for lunch, and since it was the energy bars or nothing, he would be having another one for breakfast.

“Any activity at the estate while I was in the shower?” he asked.

“Definitely not Molly and the nanny.”

But then, he knew they wouldn’t be returning tonight—he’d verified that by contacting the airfield that the pilot had used to fly to El Paso. He’d pretended to be someone on Dominic’s staff, and had learned that the return flight wasn’t until 8:00 a.

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