YULETIDE PROTECTOR by JULIE MILLER

Author:JULIE MILLER, [MILLER,, JULIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-11-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Stop that.” She swatted Brian’s hand away when he reached down to rub the raw skin beneath the ankle bracelet that allowed KCPD to keep track of his movements.

“Here.” Sitting on the edge of the bed, the woman dabbed a cotton ball soaked with hydrogen peroxide against the wounds where he’d scratched it. His breath hissed as she pushed aside his pajama pant leg to cleanse the self-inflicted wounds. “Poor thing,” she sympathized, glancing at the clock on the bedside table as she reached for the ointment. Her colleague had better call soon. The police weren’t the only ones with the ability to monitor their prey. She smiled as she straightened and opened the tube. “It must sting.”

His hands fisted in the covers as he fought to control his illness. “I want it off. Now.”

“You can’t do that, darling.” She rubbed the soothing gel beneath the ring on his leg. “We have to show the judge how well you’re cooperating with his mandate. You must be patient if we’re going to win this case.”

“At least if I go to prison I won’t have to wear this damn thing anymore.”

There he’d be living with mice and bugs and most likely a cell mate, with a stainless-steel toilet right there near the cot where he’d sleep. Brian couldn’t survive a situation like that with his obsessive-compulsive disorder.

But she wasn’t worried. “You aren’t going to prison.” He belonged in this hotel’s penthouse suite with her, even if there was a black-and-white police car parked on the street below them. “Soon, everything will be taken care of.”

His deep blue eyes demanded she see reason. “If Bailey Austin testifies—”

“She won’t.” She had always been the voice of reason in this relationship. He was the brilliant designer, the innovative business tycoon with a vision for restoring this city to its architectural splendor. Let him be the castle-builder whom so many people admired. She was the clever workhorse who did the unpleasant jobs, who smoothed over the rough patches of an illustrious career, who loved him despite his mood swings and obsessions. She wiped her fingers on a towel before gently touching his lips. “I promised I’d take care of you. And I always will.”

He grabbed her wrist and pulled her hand from his mouth. “I am not some babe to be taken care of.”

He swiped the towel from her hand and wiped his lips.

No. He was certainly a man. A great man in her eyes. Their relationship had to remain secret, but for years—longer than anyone might suspect—it had remained strong. They shared a stormy history of love and hate and lots of taking. They both had benefitted from this affair. But no one had ever needed her the way this man did. And for that need, for him, she would do anything.

The telephone rang and she got up, tying her robe securely around her waist. “There’s the call I’m waiting for.” She pointed a warning finger at him as he swung his feet to the floor.

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