Killshadow Road by Paula Graves

Author:Paula Graves
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

One hot summer night in Tablis, Darcy had gone for a swim in the embassy pool. Technically, anyone employed by the embassy could swim in the Olympic-size pool behind the embassy’s fortified walls, but by custom, the daylight hours were left to the diplomats and their families, while the support staff, including the FBI’s legat staff and the security personnel, waited until evening hours, if they were lucky enough to be off duty.

After ten in the evening was the best time if a person preferred to swim alone, Darcy had discovered. Most of the staff had gone to bed by then, leaving him alone to get in his laps and work off the day’s stresses before bedtime.

But that hot summer night, he had not been alone. A young woman with a lithe, muscular shape had been cutting waves through the pool’s clear water, powering her way from end to end as if racing a clock. He’d recognized her—barely—as the new legat agent.

She’d pulled up short as she reached the end where Darcy stood, water streaming from her chaos of curls and sliding with sensuous leisure over the curves of her breasts, so chastely but inadequately hidden beneath the modest one-piece bathing suit. Moonlight brought out deep auburn glimmers in her damp hair and cast her fair skin with a pearly glow that reminded Darcy of a Waterhouse painting he’d seen once at an art gallery in England, depicting young Hylas enchanted by naiads.

Brushing the water away from her eyes, his late-night intruder had offered a sweet smile worthy of those otherworldly water nymphs and apologized. “I thought I’d be alone at this hour.”

It had been McKenna Rigsby’s first day at the embassy, and Darcy had been utterly enchanted.

Getting involved with her romantically had been out of the question, of course. Tensions in Kaziristan kept all embassy personnel on alert, leaving them little time for anything but the most cursory of friendships. And they’d both worked high-stress, dangerous jobs that allowed no room for distractions.

Like kissing each other until they were utterly breathless.

She tugged him closer, her arms wrapping around his neck until she pulled his chest flush against hers. Her pulse raced in tandem with his as she parted her lips, inviting him to deepen the kiss.

Maybe she really was a naiad, he thought as her hair tangled around his hands, ensnaring him until he felt as though he was becoming part of her, helpless to resist her spell.

But he had to resist. This day, eight years later, was no less dangerous than that night at the US Embassy in Tablis. The enemy had changed, but terror was still afoot. People’s lives were still in grave peril.

And as before, McKenna and Darcy stood in the breach, trying to keep death at bay.

He dragged his mouth away from hers, trying to catch his breath again. “We can’t do this.”

“I know,” she murmured, reaching for him again.

Catching her hands, he held them together between his own to keep them still.

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