Harlequin Intrigue February 2019, Box Set 2 of 2 by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

The first thing Conor did after securing the dead bolt to Laura’s apartment was cross to the living room window and close the blinds. If the killer was spying on her, he intended to make the bastard’s efforts to get eyes on Laura as difficult as possible.

The second thing he did was to take her hand and fold it squarely into his palm. She needed the contact to stay calm, feel reassured. And quite frankly, so did he. Together they moved through her apartment, checking locks, closing blinds. The dimness cast a pall over her apartment where the brightness of the winter afternoon had once lit it with the sunlight and color he associated with Laura. Although he regretted casting her life into the shadows, he preferred the seclusion to knowing that the spying creep who’d been calling and texting had any kind of advantage over her.

The third thing he did was shuck out of his coat and sit on her sofa. He adjusted the gun on his hip and pulled Laura down beside him, wrapping her up in his arms when she curled into a ball, tucking her head against his shoulder.

She’d stopped shaking. She didn’t cry. She didn’t talk. But something about the way her fingers fisted in his sweater and T-shirt, pressing into the skin and muscle underneath, and the way her short legs curled over his lap as if she needed every inch of human contact he could offer, tore at him inside.

Conor had been in protector mode before, knowing Laura was poking her nose into things that were better left to law enforcement to investigate.

But now, after he’d read those damned texts and felt the fear vibrating through her body, adrenaline pumped in him, putting him in amped-up super-protective mode. It was like he was back working WITSEC again, on that last protection assignment he’d run in Kansas City. That was two years ago, when his idiot boss had agreed to leak information about his witness in order to use her as bait to make the Badge Man, the serial killer who’d murdered her husband and tried to kill her, reveal himself so he could be captured. His job was to keep people safe from those who wanted them dead. Period. That had been the final straw that had convinced Conor to leave the Marshals Service and go to work at KCPD. Because it was his friends at KCPD who had stepped up to help him keep his witness safe when the killer had shown up to silence the only surviving eyewitness to a serial killer’s crimes.

But he wasn’t in Kansas City now. He had neither WITSEC resources he could call on, nor a local police force he trusted to back him up with Laura’s safety.

And damn if it didn’t infuriate every cell in his body to know some wacko out there who’d already murdered her friend was getting his jollies by taunting Laura with threats and making this smart, funny, full-of-life woman afraid. It wasn’t just anger simmering in his veins, either.

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