Black Hearted: Black Knights Inc: Reloaded by Julie Ann Walker

Author:Julie Ann Walker [Walker, Julie Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limerence Publications LLC
Published: 2023-09-25T18:30:00+00:00

15

Distracted with patting grease off the top of her pizza slice with a paper towel, Eliza was unprepared for the feel of Fisher’s leg brushing against her own.

Lightning.

That’s what struck her anytime they touched.

Not little sparks of electricity. Not a zap to the system that made her sit up straight. But a full-on firebolt that fried her brain and turned her insides to molten lava.

A gasp shot out of her before she could stop it. Embarrassed by her involuntary outburst, her eyes jumped up to find him staring at her.

“What’s wrong?” A deep line appeared between his eyebrows. “Is something the matter with your leg? I barely touched ya.”

Her pulse beat in her neck like a butterfly’s wings. With him laser-focused on her, she worried he’d notice.

Although, he probably won’t, she thought.

Just because she registered every minor detail about him, the tiniest change in his expression or the slightest quickening of his breath, that didn’t mean he did the same with her. A person only laser-focused on the object of their obsession, right?

Rubbing a hand over her throat, she cleared her voice. “No. I was in my own world and you startled me. That’s all.”

“Are ya jumpier than usual tonight, or is it just me?”

It’s because you keep touching me! she could’ve wailed.

Why he’d suddenly taken to throwing an arm around her shoulders whenever he pleased she’d never know.

Or, rather, she did know.

Their little heart-to-heart in the kitchen had apparently made him think they’d become bosom buddies.

And yet…

He’s as much of a scoundrel as ever, she reminded herself. He can be amazingly empathetic and kind-hearted. But in the same breath, if it weren’t for Sam throwing up roadblocks, he’d probably have Hannah upstairs and undressed.

She’d watched him eye-bone dozens of women over the years. Had listened to him flirt and tease. Had stood by while he worked his magic and ended the night with another woman on his arm. And yes, she always felt a little frisson of jealousy. How could she not?

His blatant attempts to seduce Hannah, however, had turned that frisson of jealousy into a green-eyed monster the size of Godzilla.

Maybe because, for the first time, he was attempting to woo someone on her home turf. Maybe because, after their conversation in the kitchen, she felt closer to him than ever before. Or maybe because it was becoming increasingly impossible to distance herself from the power of her feelings for him.

“Eliza?” He dragged her from her disquieting thoughts.

“Hmm?” She blinked, wondering if he’d ever use her nickname again.

She’d always been indifferent to being called Liza until she’d heard the two syllables rolling around in his mouth. Now, that’s all she wanted him to call her.

“What’s got ya so wound up tonight?”

“Yeah. What the hell is going on around here?” Samantha asked, slipping a pepperoni to Peanut. The cat gulped it down like he hadn’t eaten for days. “My beloved husband’s text didn’t get into specifics.”

Eliza was glad for the conversational detour. It meant she didn’t have to answer Fisher’s question.

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