The Scenic Route by Katie Ruggle

Author:Katie Ruggle [Ruggle, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks

Eleven

As soon as Felicity woke, she wished she were still sleeping. Everything hurt, especially her head, and each beat of her heart seemed to send a pulse of dull pain to every corner of her body. She made a sound of misery but then broke off her groan halfway through because it made her hurt even more. Without opening her eyes, she lay very still, hoping if she didn’t move, the pain would go away.

As she lay there unmoving, a deep groan filled the air around her, and her eyes flew open, her misery forgotten as her memory kicked in, reminding her why she was in a strange bed with Bennett Green.

They’d followed her skip to Las Vegas, spent most of the next day sitting in her car in a parking garage, staring at Clint and Dino’s pickup truck, and then followed them to a dive bar.

Bennett rolled over onto his back. “Please shoot me.”

“Me first.”

He cautiously opened one eye. “You okay, Fifi?”

“Really?” She gave a huff, but it was a small one so it didn’t move her aching head too much. “You too with the Fifis?” She reached over to pinch him—nothing too hard, just enough to remember it the next time he considered using her dreaded nickname.

He rolled off the bed in an effort to get away from her. As the sheets were pulled from his body during his fall, she was relieved to see that he still wore boxer briefs. He was partially naked, but at least he wasn’t fully naked. She tried to convince herself that she wasn’t the tiniest bit disappointed the important bits were covered.

Belatedly, she looked under the covers. With mixed feelings, she regarded the unfamiliar oversize T-shirt that went almost to her knees. When she checked, she found she did have her own underwear on. There’s that at least, she thought before turning her attention back to Bennett. While she’d been distracted assessing her clothing situation, he’d found some pants and pulled them on. She felt that same pang of disappointment that his muscled legs were hidden, but she comforted herself with the thought that she could still ogle that gorgeous chest of his.

“To answer your question,” she said, trying to get her brain off Bennett’s pecs and back on how they’d ended up in this situation, “I’ll live. Well, unless I chop off my own head to stop the pounding.”

“Yeah, me too.” He rubbed his face with both hands, his stubble rasping against his calluses.

“Any idea how we ended up here last night?” Felicity felt her face warm, but she pushed through the embarrassment, cleared her throat, and continued. “All I remember is the stakeout and following Dino into the dive bar.” As she talked through it, more flashes of memories were returning. “We didn’t see Dino or Clint, but there was a fight? Maybe?” That part seemed hazy. “Was I in the fight?”

“No.” The line of his mouth was grim, and she had a feeling he was recalling even more than she was.

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