Harlequin Intrigue November 2016, Box Set 1 of 2 by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488027246
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Jordon awoke before dawn. Gabriel was spooned around her back with his arm thrown across her waist and his deep, even breathing warmed the back of her neck.

She closed her eyes again and embraced the moment of feeling loved even though she knew it was a false sentiment. Gabriel Walters could never love a woman like her. Nobody could really love her. Still, it was nice to pretend for a little while.

Certainly making love with him had rocked her world. He’d been so passionate and so wonderfully intense. He’d made her feel incredibly beautiful and desired.

They’d come together again sometime in the middle of the night, and then their lovemaking had been sleepy and slow and all kinds of wonderful.

However, she knew when dawn broke and a new day began, it would be business as usual between them. She didn’t expect the soft glow in her heart to remain. She wasn’t here for romance. She didn’t do romance. She was here to catch a killer.

She remained in bed, wrapped in Gabriel’s warmth and listening to her heartbeat mirror the slow steady beat of his until the sound of a snowblower shattered the silence. Gabriel stirred and slowly unwound himself from her.

“Good morning,” he said as he sat up and raked a hand through his hair.

“Back at you,” she replied.

He leaned over and grabbed his cell phone from the nightstand. “Jeez, it’s just after seven. I haven’t slept this late since before the first murder.”

She slid out of bed. “I get the bathroom first.” She grabbed a fresh pair of slacks, a blouse and her underwear and then went into the bathroom.

She hoped he didn’t want to talk about last night. She didn’t want to hear the regrets he was probably feeling in the light of day.

While she suffered not a single regret about what they had shared, she also wasn’t eager to delve too deeply into exactly what her own feelings were.

Dressing as quickly as possible, she tried to get her head back into the game of murder and away from the night of passion. The killer was escalating in his quest. He’d almost gotten to her last night. She’d been lucky that the first knife strike hadn’t hit her chest and incapacitated her.

When she left the bathroom Gabriel had already dressed and made the bed. He stood at the window with the curtain pulled back allowing a faint stream of sunshine to seep into the room.

“If you don’t like the weather in Missouri just wait a minute and it changes,” she said.

He turned away from the window with a nod. “It’s hard to believe we were in blizzard conditions last night. It looks like the sun is going to shine today.”

She walked over to stand next to him and peered outside. The morning sun sparkled on the five or six inches of additional snow that had fallen overnight. In the distance she saw Billy Bond working a snowblower around the dining room porch and Ted Overton was shoveling off the paths in front of the cabins.

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