To Catch a Thief by Christina Skye

Author:Christina Skye [Skye, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2008-12-12T23:00:00+00:00

THE MAN WAS over-the-edge crazy.

“Arrogant as well as crazy,” Nell muttered as she saw him run through the rain and lean down to inspect his motorcycle on the drive.

Her leg burned, her ankle throbbed. She was tired from making lists and tired from fighting the demons of her memories. If she’d had a little more time, she might have found some degree of peace. Then Dakota had stormed out of the night, gorgeous and angry and tired, with a hard set to his jaw that hadn’t been there the last time she’d seen him in San Francisco.

She’d heard the worry and guilt in his voice when he insisted on carrying her over the gravel driveway. Then had come anger. And finally the anger had faded to hunger, stark and wordless. She hadn’t missed the moment. He’d wanted her.

And desire was the last thing she had expected to see in a man who was always contained and controlled.

Nell accepted that men stared at her, studied her legs and made reasons to brush against her in crowded rooms. But then they moved on as fast as they could. Nell didn’t know how to be coy. She didn’t lure and tease, giving out the clever signals that meant she was interested and available.

Because she wasn’t available, not on any level. When she was young, Nell had thought that if she fell in love, it would happen in a blinding moment of instinct, without words or games. But the moment had never come. When she realized that love was just another form of leaning, she gave up waiting.

As she unbuttoned her blouse, beads of water ran down her chest. She realized that the damp cotton was nearly transparent from the rain. Dakota would have seen right through her wet shirt and thin silk camisole to her breasts.

They were tight and exquisitely sensitive. Nell had never felt more alive or gripped by desire.

All because of the simple slide of Dakota’s hands and the haunted look in his eyes.

She blew out a shaky breath, trying to forget the careful way he’d cleaned her jagged cuts, then stroked her leg, almost as if he didn’t realize what he was doing.

She closed her eyes.

Stupid to feel this way.

Stupid to want more, to feel her body coming alive under the brush of his callused fingers. She didn’t want to be alive that way again.

She shivered as she stripped off her damp clothes. Once she stopped expecting to find one great love, she had settled for an occasional fling, sometimes with a climber, once with an artist whose hands had been careful and experienced. Each time when it was over, Nell had felt cold and empty.

It had been a long time since she’d looked at a man and felt the sharp, blind stir of awareness. She had accepted the loss, even been grateful for it since her life was complicated enough. But tonight in the rain Nell had felt the unmistakable stab of desire return.

She felt it again now, remembering the hunger that had swept his face before he locked the emotion away.

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