Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense February 2021--Box Set 2 of 2 by Lenora Worth

Author:Lenora Worth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Sitting at his desk, Trey dug his elbows into the wood and planted his palms against his temples. What had he been thinking? And what if her additional security detail had witnessed the whole thing?

He groaned and pressed his palms tighter to his head. He’d done a whole lot of foolish and impulsive stuff in his life, but almost kissing Macey Price was probably the second worst. It didn’t matter that she was likely innocent. He was an investigator. Undercover. Supposedly emotionally detached.

Well, his emotions had been anything but detached this morning. They’d been fully engaged. It had been hard enough to step back on her front porch, and he’d thought he’d succeeded in keeping his heart tucked safely out of the way. But then she’d turned and with that look of wonder or whatever it was in her eyes…

He’d fallen into that look before he even realized he was moving. It wasn’t about a kiss or a touch. That would have been easier to explain away. No. This was worse. This was about realizing in an instant that, yes, Macey Price really had become his friend. Worse, she was becoming something more. That she truly was a keeper. Why had he even said something as insane as that?

Because she brought out a peace in him, a feeling that he’d somehow been put back together again after war and divorce and stupidity had torn him into too many tiny shreds. It was a feeling that he might actually be of value to someone again. Important. Capable.

Capable? Maybe as a man but not as an investigator. If this was the real world and he was really just a soldier and Macey was really just his neighbor, this could be a real thing between them. They could explore the emotions behind that near kiss, could date, could maybe consider a future together.

He groaned and dropped his head lower. Marriage wasn’t a thing he should ever think. Because this wasn’t the real world, at least not for him. He was playacting.

And it was killing him.

“You kissed her, didn’t you?”

The male voice from Trey’s home office door jerked his hand and nearly dropped his head to the desk. Trey sat upright so fast his chair shifted a couple of inches back. “Don’t you knock?”

“Nope.” Rich walked in and dropped into a canvas camping chair Trey had once shoved into the corner. He dragged it to the desk and settled in like they had all day to run their mouths. “You need better furniture.”

“This is temporary. It’s an op. I have what I need to live for the few months I’m here.” Exactly the thing he should have been telling himself this morning when he’d decided to make all sorts of unspoken promises to Macey. He winced.

“I’m guessing it doesn’t feel so temporary right now.”

Was Rich seriously trying to have this discussion? “Let’s keep this to talking about the job, okay?” Trey planted his hands on the desktop and pushed himself up, then walked toward the door.

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