Internal Affair by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Silhouette Single Title
Published: 2010-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

The telephone was ringing when he walked into his condo over an hour later. He and McKenna had gone their separate ways after dinner, although he’d had to struggle against the urge to ask her over to his place. The pretext of a nightcap wasn’t even remotely in his thoughts. What he wanted was to find out if her skin was as smooth as it seemed. All over. If that look in her eyes hid a wildness instinct told him was there.

For a simple man, Patrick knew life had gotten incredibly complicated for him, and this bone about Ramirez was hard enough to chew on. He didn’t need more.

Except Maggi was tormenting him. Need tormented him. A basic need as old as time. That’s all it was, he told himself, taking off his holster. All he wanted was a little gut-wrenching, toe-curling, sweaty sex, nothing more.

The fact that he was contemplating having it with his partner made his mouth curve. Never thought he’d catch himself thinking that.

The phone kept ringing, an irritating noise scratching at the perimeter of his mind. Patrick thought of letting the machine get it, but his natural sense of urgency and order forced him to walk over to it and pick up the wireless receiver.

“Cavanaugh.”

“Just wanted to put in my bid early for Christmas day.”

The familiar voice drew out a smile as Patrick sank down on his sofa. The second he did, he felt as if he’d collapsed. He’d warred with a host of emotions that had made him more tired than a full day out in the field.

He put his feet up on the secondhand coffee table Patience had picked up for him at a garage sale. “You don’t have to put in a bid, Uncle Andrew. It’s a done deal, you know that.”

“No, I don’t,” the other man informed him. “I didn’t think I’d have to call and ask to see you, but apparently it looks like I have to. Your sister’s looking well. She tells me she hasn’t seen much of you, either.”

Patrick grinned. There was something comforting about listening to his uncle’s harping. He’d missed it. “Work. You know how it is.”

He heard his uncle sigh and knew there was more than a little nostalgia echoing in the sound. “Yeah, I know how it is. Still doesn’t give a man an excuse to cut out his family.”

“No cutting,” Patrick assured him, then teased, “trimming maybe.”

“If I asked to see your clock-stopping mug at the table in the next say, three or four days, what do you think my chances would be?”

“Fair to good.”

“But not perfect.”

There were no birds on his uncle’s antennae, Patrick thought fondly. Sometimes he wondered why the man opted to take early retirement. Andrew was still as sharp as ever. “No, not perfect.”

Andrew hesitated for a moment. “You know, Patrick, if a case you’re working on is giving you trouble, I’d be happy to have you bounce a few things off me. The brain still works pretty well.”

Patrick glanced at a stack of mail on the corner of the table.

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