Undercover Hunter by Rachel Lee

Author:Rachel Lee [Lee, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780373279012
Google: 4YUPBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00LZCTG84
Goodreads: 22885395
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-31T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The storm continued to blow throughout the night. When fatigue finally caught up with DeeJay and Cade, it somehow seemed natural that they went to bed together. Stupid, now, for her to sleep on the couch.

But they didn’t make love. Almost by silent agreement, they snuggled in, out of the cold, and offered the kind of comfort only closeness could.

Things were almost back to normal, DeeJay thought as she drifted off to sleep. Normal...

She awoke from a nightmare. The wind still howled outside, though less violently, and the darkness blanketed everything. Breathing rapidly, her heart racing, she slipped out of bed and pulled on her slippers and fleece bathrobe. After a quick trip to the bathroom, she went back out into the kitchen and defiantly turned on lights and started coffee.

She’d had nightmares before, but this one was directly related to the case. She’d been struggling against bindings, trapped in a stickiness she couldn’t escape, watching in horror as a giant spider began to move toward her.

Just a nightmare, she told herself, reaching for calm. If ever a case was designed to give her horrific dreams, this one was it.

She was standing at the coffeepot, watching it brew, when Cade’s voice startled her.

“Something wrong?” he asked.

She whipped around to see him standing there in jeans he hadn’t yet buttoned, his feet bare, a sweatshirt in his hand.

“Just a bad dream.”

“Must have been more than bad.” He raised his arms to pull on the sweatshirt, and even in her disturbed state she registered the smooth ripple of muscles over his torso.

“I still feel as if someone walked over my grave,” she admitted, then turned to face the coffeepot again. Awareness of Cade’s sexiness wasn’t going to help anything at all.

But then his arms closed around her from behind. “This entire case is a nightmare. I’m not surprised it’s getting into your sleep.”

“I was trapped,” she confessed. “In a big spiderweb and it was coming for me.”

She felt him kiss the back of her head. “Ugh.”

That about covered it, she thought. The coffeepot finished brewing, and Cade reached around her, bringing out two fresh cups. Still standing behind her like a bulwark, he filled them.

“You ready to sit?” he asked.

“You can go back to bed,” she said. She was used to dealing with things by herself and feared the closeness growing between them.

“Yeah, right,” he said.

They moved to the living room. He turned on all the lights as if to drive back the remnants of her dream and sat beside her on the couch. He didn’t say anything, giving her the space to just think or to talk as she chose.

“I wish,” she said slowly, “that I thought it was just all this thinking I’ve been doing about spiders.”

“But?”

“You heard what Gage said. I look like this guy’s type. I guess that got to me more than I thought at the time.”

Cade frowned down at his legs for a few seconds. “I dismissed it, too. Really. You’re a woman, and you’re taller.

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