True Vision by Joyce Lamb

Author:Joyce Lamb [Joyce Lamb]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, True, Paranormal Suspense
ISBN: 9781101188095
Publisher: Berkley Sensation
Published: 2010-06-01T21:32:29+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

Noah rolled over, expecting, anticipating contact with Charlie. If she was sleeping, he had a few ideas about how to wake her up, all of which involved her screaming his name as she came.

But he was alone in the bed, and the sheets on her side were cool.

He sat up, closing his eyes against the tug of pain in his scalp, and looked around the dark hotel room. The light-blocking curtains prevented him from knowing the time. A glance at the clock gave him a time, but it could be A.M. or P.M. for all he knew.

Sighing, he shoved aside the covers and sat on the side of the bed. Must be morning, he thought. He had to have slept several hours or he wouldn’t have felt so good, better than he’d felt in weeks. Maybe years.

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie.

He smiled as he scrubbed his hands over his face. Jesus, she’d blown his mind. Who would have thought a woman so laid-back and levelheaded could be so passionate once you stripped away her clothes? He still smelled like her, like coconuts and the musk of very hot, very messy sex.

His groin started to tighten at the memories, and he pushed off from the bed and headed for the shower. As he twisted the water on and waited for it to warm up, he considered where this, with Charlie, could lead. He had a job in Chicago. Not a life, though. Just a job that had been his life. A job that had bruised and bloodied his soul over the years. Could he leave it behind? Yeah, he could. In a heartbeat.

Of course, all of this could be premature. One night of hot sex didn’t make a long-term relationship. But, Jesus, Charlie Trudeau. Just thinking her name made his heart kick like a baby in a womb, eager for rebirth.

He’d have to tell her.

Sighing, he braced his hands on the tile and let the water hit him square in the face, careful to angle his head so the spot where the bullet grazed his scalp was protected.

Charlie was all about the truth, doing the right thing. He’d have no choice but to tell her.

“You’re all about payback, aren’t you?”

In one shot, she’d pegged him.

The guilt boiled up inside him like rolling lava. Not because he’d exacted bloody, satisfying revenge on someone who deserved it, but because he didn’t feel bad about it. He’d do it again without a second thought, and afterward he would celebrate. Raise a glass to the heavens, knowing the bad guys were in hell for what they’d done.

Charlie Trudeau stood for truth, and Noah Lassiter stood for justice.

The question now was: Would Charlie accept Noah’s idea of justice?

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