The Soldier's Seduction by Jane Godman

Author:Jane Godman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Romantic Suspense
Published: 2017-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“We have nothing.” Steffi slumped back against the pillows. “A big, fat zero.”

“I wouldn’t say that,” Bryce said. “We have pizza, beer—” he tilted his half-empty bottle in her direction “—and I’m enjoying the company.”

Wow. He probably had no idea of the knee-weakening effect of a comment like that. She assured herself that she was doing a good job of maintaining the facade that Bryce had not touched her feelings in any way. The effect he had on her body couldn’t have escaped his attention. Not when he could reduce her to a mass of screaming, pleading ecstasy within seconds. But she was trying to play it cool on the emotions front. It wasn’t what she wanted. Every time she looked at Bryce, she wanted to crawl all over him like an out of control kitten and demand to know what he was thinking. More important, she wanted to know what he was thinking and feeling about her. Her head and heart were at war over him. Every time her head told her not to get too close, her heart started to do wild somersaults.

As soon as I get near him, I turn into a needy teenager. I hate and love it at the same time. Hate because I don’t want to hand control of my body over to another person when I don’t know where this is leading. Love because I never knew it was possible to be swept along on such a magical tide of pure sensation.

“But you’re right. We have nothing when it comes to the cell phone.”

Bryce leaned back with his hands behind his head, allowing Steffi to feast her eyes on his muscular torso. The bruises inflicted by Erik back at Steffi’s cabin were starting to fade both on his face and his body. Whatever mayhem might be going on around them, there were definite compensations to this situation. Being in bed with a gorgeous man was one of them. The other was a surprising sense of liberation. Steffi hadn’t realized how restrictive her life had been until she broke free of it. Other people might imagine she had the money and power to do pretty much anything she wanted. The reality was that the opposite was true. Her work schedule had been so punishing that she never had time to draw breath. Never really had a second to enjoy the wealth she had earned. Sitting naked in bed in the middle of the afternoon, drinking beer and eating pizza? She’d have had to pencil that in for a date about eighteen months in advance.

“There is one thing that bothers me more than anything else. With that recording, Greg had the evidence he needed to prove Walter killed your parents. Walter himself admitted it.” Frustration echoed in Bryce’s voice. “So why the hell didn’t Greg go straight to the police?”

“Maybe he wanted Walter to suffer?”

“I thought about that, but I just don’t buy it as an explanation,” Bryce said. “Greg knew how dangerous Walter was.

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