To Cure an Obsession by Elyssa Lynne

Author:Elyssa Lynne
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2007-04-16T12:55:03+00:00

Chapter Seven

Lunch hour, the public phone again. “Garrett?” Becka kept her voice soft, husky, alluring.

“Fantasy.” Just the one word but it held volumes of emotion.

She caught her breath, savoring the pleasure in his tone. A pleasure he so easily gave right back to her. A week had passed yet he remembered the sound of her voice speaking his name. That sent a thrill through her that she knew was as unwise as it was erotic.

“Tonight. Seven p.m. Same hotel. Same room.”

“Eight twenty-one,” he said before she could supply it.

“Eight twenty-one,” she agreed. “Dinner will be waiting.”

She hung up the public phone then paused, watching it. This time it did not ring.

This time he had what he wanted. And so did she. But this time it really would be the last time.

She had agonized over the decision for hours. She had no right to do this, not with her part in the investigation still ongoing. It was a flagrant conflict of interest.

And if he ever found out she had played any part in it… It made her sick to think about that. At best it would seem to him she had seduced him for that one reason. At worst he would see it as an intentional betrayal.

But if she did not see him again she might as well give up any hope of ever accomplishing anything in the little time she had left. And that was not an option.

Well, tonight she would not be Rebecca Carlisle, investigator. She would be Fantasy. His Fantasy. They could both forget their troubles for a little while.

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Elyssa Lynne

Since leaving work the previous day she had spent the time planning, making certain the hotel could accommodate her, making certain she could accommodate Garrett McBride. That had entailed a trip to Victoria’s Secret, a store she had never before visited. It had proved educational and wholly delightful.

Oh damn, she should not be so excited, so nervous. He had liked her belly dancing outfit. He would love the lingerie that rested now in her briefcase. She returned to the office, got a salad from the caterer’s cart then took it to eat at her desk. Her thoughts kept leaping ahead to the evening to come but this time she got the figures entered into the right columns and made sense of the results.

And everything added up.

Except…

Excitement filled her. The figures were all correct. It was the account numbers that didn’t match. No wonder she had missed it before. One of the projects did not appear in the general ledger except as subaccounts under other projects. It would never be seen on the financial statements reviewed by the top executives.

She leaned back in her chair, gazing at the arrangement of chrysanthemums on her desk without really seeing them. Why would someone go to all the trouble of faking a project? There were far simpler ways to embezzle, ways not likely to be discovered during a routine audit. Unless…

Unless the project had once existed, then been canceled. Except could it

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