Harlequin Presents, September 2019, Box Set 1 of 2 by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

WHAT WAS SHE getting herself into now? Kimmie wondered as she introduced Kris to her friends. Was her brain so fried after finding two people she had trusted in bed together that she was more than capable of acting out of character to the point of being reckless? There was a sense of unreality about things, of not quite touching base with events that seemed to be floating over her head. Frying pan and fire came to mind. She stared at Kris, who was behaving quite differently to the autocratic tyrant he’d initially seemed on the beach. What had changed him? Why was he being so charming? Did Kris have an angle too?

‘He’s really nice,’ one of her friends said.

‘Look what I found on the beach is a great opener when the flotsam looks like Kris,’ Kimmie admitted.

She’d tried the conventional kind of relationship and look how that had turned out, Kimmie mused as Kris continued to talk easily to her friends. Perhaps it was time to try something different.

What? Now? Get real! And as if she’d get the chance!

But for someone who had spent most of her life dreaming, and putting those dreams down on paper and canvas, there was no harm in looking, as she watched Kris mingle and charm. He wasn’t predatory, and some of her single female friends were very pretty, nor was he condescending with the men. He was just a great guy…or he appeared to be. Perhaps he didn’t have an agenda and she was just being neurotic, but appearances could be deceptive, Kimmie thought as she remembered Mike.

Around half an hour in, Kris was ready to leave. ‘Do we have to go when you go?’ Kimmie asked, concern building as she noticed how much her friends had relaxed since he’d arrived. They’d been distracted from her troubles by something new, and she was grateful for that because now they could really enjoy themselves without forcing the fun for her sake.

‘Your friends don’t have to go,’ he said, ‘but you do.’

‘Me? I’m not going anywhere. I’m staying with my friends.’

‘Then you can all leave,’ Kris said flatly.

His tone was light and conversational, but the expression in his eyes said something different. ‘Come on,’ he prompted with a gesture.

Was she a puppy to be led away? She might be suffering the aftershock of betrayal, but she hadn’t lost her mind completely.

‘I’m not going anywhere,’ she assured him, digging her feet into the sand.

Of all the reactions she might have expected, an easy smile was not on the list. ‘Don’t you want to come with me?’

A host of forbidden pleasures flew into her mind, but she had the sense to discard all of them. She’d thought Mike was safe, and look what had happened. Kris didn’t even pretend to be the safe option, with that gladiator’s body, tattoos and a single small gold hoop in his ear. He was danger personified.

Wasn’t he exactly the type of distraction she needed right now? It seemed to work for her friends.

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