Unexpected Temptation by Samantha Hunter

Author:Samantha Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

9

“WHAT ARE YOU doing here?” he demanded, his hand tightening on her arm as he scanned their surroundings.

“I’m getting a coffee. Let go, that hurts,” she said, jerking her arm away as he loosened his grip.

Luke wasn’t exactly sure what had changed after his talk with Vanessa in the bedroom at Mari’s house, but he sure hadn’t expected this. What was she thinking?

“What part of ‘stay at Mari’s house’ didn’t you get?”

To his aggravation, she didn’t respond, but paid the man who handed her a coffee, smiling at him brightly. She turned to Luke.

“Would you like one?”

“No.”

She was driving him crazy. Every time he looked at her, he wanted her, even right now, when he was angry and wondering why she was even here.

Earlier, in the room, how her eyes kept traveling to the bed, he’d nearly forgotten all of his good intentions. When he told her what he knew to be true—that she wouldn’t want anything to do with him when this was all over—it had stuck with him that she hadn’t denied it.

That was dangerous. He cared about her, and not just as a client. He should have kept his hands off her, and he was intent on doing that now, difficult as it was. But she wasn’t making it easy.

“We need to get you out of here. What’s that?” he asked, noting the bags in her hands.

“I needed some clothes and personal items, so I went shopping.”

Luke stared at her in disbelief, stunned, until a car horn shook him back to reality. They were too much out in the open, where anyone could see them, and he looped his arm into hers, guiding her under one of the shop awnings.

“You what? How could you shop?”

“I used my own money, my credit cards.”

Luke thought he might be in an alternate universe, but he knew he couldn’t explode here on the street, and that Vanessa wouldn’t respond to that, anyway. He couldn’t understand why she was doing everything he had told her not to—was she angry at him about saying they couldn’t have sex? That didn’t seem like her.

Had she finally broken under the stress? Was this her way of acting normal, in denial about the danger it could cause?

He held in his temper and searched her face, but she remained placid. Serene, even. Which meant it was probably option two—she was clearly having some sort of breakdown. He cursed, angry with himself for leaving her alone. He should have at least told Mari that Vanessa had to stay at the house, and that she could be...fragile. But she didn’t look fragile, she looked excited. Beautiful and sexy in a way that made his blood stir.

“What happened?” he asked, sensing something had changed.

“What do you mean?”

“I can see in your face that you’re hiding something. What happened? Did you see Julie?”

“No. But someone saw me and mistook me for her, which means she was here, Luke, just a few days ago. They said she was forced to leave a shop with a man.

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