Wicked Intentions by Linda Verji

Author:Linda Verji [Linda Verji]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

Nathan was having one of those stare-at-the-cracks-in-the-ceiling nights, only there were no cracks on the ceiling, just those on his theory about Shakira being a part of her mother’s scheme. Her anger at Eve had been undeniable and he knew that if he checked the footage from the surveillance it would show that she wasn’t lying about the phone-call. She’d been telling the truth all along. She was just as much a victim as he was, if not more.

To say he felt like a fool – a callous fool - was an understatement.

Shakira’s breath fanned over his skin, her head rising and falling with the movement of his chest. It’d taken a while for her anger to run its course and by the time she let him touch her, she’d tired out herself. She’d sluggishly let him put her to bed still muttering Eve’s name.

Considering that he’d gone to bed without dinner, Nathan should’ve been hungry. However, the only pangs beating down at his door at this hour were the guilty ones wrenching on his conscious. He felt like an asshole for misreading Shakira like that. Scratch that – he was an asshole. While she was trying to make the best out of the situation they’d found themselves in, he was busy scheming and plotting.

“Mm.” Shakira shifted in her sleep tucking her nose into the crook of his neck and fitting her leg between his. Nathan’s arm tightened protectively around her. Though the room was shrouded in shadows, he could still see her face. He traced the lines with his gaze before lowering his head and placing a gentle kiss on her forehead.

How could he have been so wrong?

He should’ve known that she was innocent! He’d let his ego guide his actions instead of his instincts and they’d misled him. The only saving grace was that Shakira had no idea about the extent of his suspicion and everything he’d done to satisfy it. He didn’t even want to think of what would’ve happened if she knew.

Maybe I should come clean.

Nah! He nixed the idea as soon as it popped up. If her reaction to the handbag incident was any indication, Shakira wouldn’t take it well. There was no good way to spin everything he’d done. It looked bad on and off paper. From deliberately engineering their one night stand, setting a PI on her, dating her to dig for more information, bringing her into his house so that he could seduce the truth from her, planting cameras around the house – Shit!

It looked nasty as hell.

No sane woman would take it well. Shakira would be out the door before he even finished telling the truth. No! At this point the truth would only hurt her and that was the last thing he wanted to do.

“We’ll start afresh,” his whispered words floated in the dark.

As soon as morning came, he was going to make sure Randall took out the cameras. Any following the PI did from now on was only for protection, not investigation.

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