The Smuggler by Leslie Georgeson

Author:Leslie Georgeson [Georgeson, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

Tony

My thoughts a wild, swirling turmoil, I stepped out onto Grace’s porch, the flyers smashed in my grip. Where I normally would have been cautious, my senses attuned to danger, my mind was so jumbled with thoughts of Grace that I barely noticed anything except the confusion inside me. What the hell had just happened? Grace was breaking through my carefully constructed walls. She was squeezing her way inside. I couldn’t allow that to happen. I couldn’t allow her to make me weak. Coming here had been a terrible mistake. Because she made me weak. And now that I’d had a taste of heaven in her arms, I wanted more. More. Just fucking? Right. It was already so much more than that.

What the hell had I been thinking? Grace made me long for things I could never have. Things that would never be possible for a man like me. She was way too good for me. She was wild and free. Fierce and headstrong. She’d just destroyed the man I thought I was. I’d given in and done what I’d vowed never to do. She owned me now and that scared the hell out of me. I didn’t know who I was anymore or what was happening to me. I couldn’t seem to resist her. I couldn’t fight the push-pull that thrust me away as I fled as fast as I could, then sucked me right back into her like a boomerang.

I just want to be with her.

I rubbed a hand roughly over my face. I did. Being around Grace made me feel good inside. But being around her made me weak. This couldn’t happen again. The sex had been incredible. Fucking amazing. Grace had wrecked me. And I needed to get myself back again. I needed to get my head on straight. I needed to figure out who the fuck I was.

I headed down the sidewalk toward the parking lot, expecting Amigo to dart out of his hiding place in the bushes and rub against my leg. But the dog had vanished. Strange.

Uneasiness crept down my spine.

Something was wrong. I sensed it in the air. A shift.

Danger.

My senses went on high alert. Why hadn’t I paid attention earlier? Why had I allowed thoughts of Grace to distract me?

A small speck of blood on the sidewalk caught my eye. I glanced warily into the bushes.

Amigo lay underneath the shrubs, a bullet hole in his chest.

My chest squeezed. What the fuck? Why would someone shoot an innocent stray?

The answer hit me like a punch to the gut: To keep the dog from alerting me to their presence.

Ah fuck. What about the cop?

I reached for my weapon, pulling it from the holster at my back.

Glancing at the police cruiser parked in the lot, my acute vision picked up a body slumped over the steering wheel. Fuck. They’d killed him, too.

And I’d just done something a soldier should never do. I’d let myself become distracted by a woman. If I hadn’t been

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