The Marriage Agreement by Carolyn Davidson

Author:Carolyn Davidson [Davidson, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“I don’t think there’s any reason for you to be looking out the window, Lily.” From the bed, Morgan’s voice was amused, and she could visualize the lazy grin he was sending her way. “Our bad guys won’t be showing up in the middle of the night,” he said. “They’ll want to confront us, and they need a signature on the deed to have the transfer of possession legal.”

“Well, seeing that we don’t own the place to begin with, we couldn’t sign it over to them anyway, could we?” His words of teasing assurance were not enough to lure her from her post, and she crossed her arms, standing at one side of the window frame, lest she expose herself fully should someone be out there, keeping watch over the house.

“No, but don’t worry about that angle. We’re not going to let this go that far,” Morgan told her. “Once they demand our cooperation and offer a bank draft for the property, we can arrest them and haul them away. Caine has a cell waiting for them.”

“Who’s going to arrest them?” she asked, turning her head to look toward the bed. He lay propped on both pillows, his head turned toward her, and even in the dim light, she could see the glitter of his eyes and the naked beauty of the man who awaited her presence beside him.

“I can arrest them,” he told her. “I’m carrying a note from government headquarters in Washington giving me that right.”

Another facet of his varied past, she thought. My husband, the government man. She smiled then, to think that a woman on the run might carry around her very own protector, an agent from the nation’s capitol.

“I’m not sure I like the bent of that amused look you’re wearing,” he said. “I’d say your mind is working a mile a minute, trying to find a hundred reasons to keep you out of this bed tonight.”

“Tell me, Morgan,” she said impulsively, “what happens if your boss finds out you’ve been harboring a criminal? Will you lose your job?”

“Well, if I were in this for the high salary, it might be a concern, but since the government is not known for making their employees into rich men it wouldn’t be any great loss,” he said. “And on top of that, you have to understand something, Lily. Men who are willing to do what I do for a living are few and far between. They manage to overlook a lot when it comes to their operatives.”

“Even having a wife with a price on her head?”

“Are you worried?” he asked, shifting to lean on one elbow. He patted the mattress next to him. “Come on over here. Let’s talk about it.”

“I’m not easily persuaded,” she told him. “I kinda like it right here by the window. In fact, I may pull that chair over here and just spend the night keeping an eye out for trouble.”

“I don’t think that’ll work,” he said, and as he spoke

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