Hold Me Down (The Deacons of Bourbon Street #3) by Jackie Ashenden

Author:Jackie Ashenden [Ashenden, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Alice put the finishing touches on her makeup, then took a step back from the mirror, giving herself a critical once-over. She wasn’t a dress girl so it felt weird to put one on, but tonight she’d wanted to make a bit more of an effort, so she’d hauled out the dark blue silk wraparound number she’d gotten cheap in a sale a couple of years ago. It hugged her figure beautifully, showing enough cleavage to be sexy as well as a good deal of leg beneath the short, flirty hem. It was cute, and hopefully Blue would like it. Hopefully he’d like the color, too.

There wasn’t an occasion. They weren’t going out anywhere special. Not when she couldn’t afford to be seen out with him anywhere but The Priory in case there were any Ministry sympathizers hanging around. But every night after she’d finished at the garage¸ she’d come back to The Priory and Blue’s apartment. Sometimes they’d sit in the bar and talk over a few beers. Sometimes they’d head straight to his place, where he’d cook her dinner and tell her about his time in the bayou, where he’d helped the remote communities down that way with the Katrina cleanup. She’d begun to look forward to those evenings more than she’d thought possible, and tonight, she just wanted to show her appreciation a little.

You’re a fool. You don’t want to start getting involved again.

Stupid. She wasn’t getting involved. She knew this was only temporary. It wasn’t going to be a problem.

Giving her dress a last, quick smooth, she reached for her leather jacket to wear over it, only to hear the doorbell ring.

She frowned. Weird. She wasn’t expecting any visitors. Unless it was Blue, getting impatient and coming to pick her up. But then they’d agreed he wasn’t to visit her at the apartment since she sometimes got Ministry brothers dropping by.

Going to the front door, she peered through the peephole. And her heart sank a little.

It wasn’t Blue. It was Blade.

He didn’t often come by for a visit, but when he did it was because he wanted to see if she was okay. Usually because something had prompted him to make him think she wasn’t.

Shit, had she screwed something up somehow? Asked a few too many questions? Made someone suspicious enough to take it to him?

There was, unfortunately, only one way to find out.

Taking a deep, silent breath, she pulled open the door.

Blade was a big guy, same kind of build as Blue, and projected an aura of danger as loud as a shout. A good guy, but you wouldn’t want to get on his wrong side or fuck with him in any way. When Colt had attacked her, Blade had given the guy the beating of his life.

He smiled at her, the air of menace he carried around with him fading slightly. “Hey Red, I hoped I’d catch you.” Then his dark eyes widened. “Wow. Don’t see you in a dress very often. You going somewhere special or what?”

Oh great.

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