The Hill by Carol Ericson

Author:Carol Ericson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2014-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

London fell backward and he caught her in his arms, holding her against his chest.

Trembles passed through her body like waves and he rested his cheek against her hair. “Are you okay?

She turned her head to look into his face, her eyes huge and round. “I can’t believe someone would do something like this. How in the hell did he even get in here?”

“It doesn’t look like anyone’s been here for a few days. Maybe he was worried that he’d be discovered after Griff’s murder and left.” He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her away from the wall. They both landed on the floor with her halfway in his lap.

She folded one leg beneath her and leaned against his thigh. “Do you think Griff let them up here? I can imagine they gave him some line about getting some stories on the people who live in this building. Griff told us he’d cooperated with the paparazzi before.”

She seemed to have recovered some of her composure—but she stayed in his lap.

“That could be. He mentioned that he’d done it before without any bad consequences. I don’t see how a stranger or maybe more than one stranger could make his way into this unit, cut a chunk out of the wall, order pizza and spy on you without someone in this building helping him out.”

She gathered his T-shirt in her fists. “Maybe if we leave everything as is and pretend we never found his little squirrel hole, he’ll come back and we can catch him in the act.”

“I think the game is up for him. He literally destroyed his contact in this building by killing Griff. He’s not going to try to buy off another security guard—especially that guy down there now.”

She released his shirt and rubbed her eyes, her knuckles digging into her sockets. “Now I’m sitting here thinking about all the stuff I did in that room over the past few weeks. Who knows? Maybe even longer than that.”

“None of that dancing naked on the tabletops?” He tugged the end of one blond lock of hair hanging over her shoulder.

She rewarded him with a shaky smile. “I thought I told you, all that stuff is behind me.”

“Why?” He clinched the strand of hair and wound it around his finger. “Why are you trying so hard to run away from the old London? She sounds like a lot of fun.”

“The old London made a lot mistakes.”

“How many mistakes can a twentysomething make?”

Her green eyes clouded over, and she stared out the window over his shoulder. “You’d be surprised.”

“Do you think London Breck the CEO isn’t going to make mistakes? All you can do is be true to yourself.”

“Do you follow your own advice, Judd Brody?”

“I try.” He held her gaze even though the lie burned in his gut.

“Right.” She fell back on the floor, crossing her arms behind her head and staring at the ceiling. “I have a new wrinkle to our contract.”

“Oh?” He stretched out beside her, digging his elbow into the carpet and propping up his head.

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