Knox: Dragon Brides #8 (Intergalactic Dating Agency) by Kate Rudolph

Author:Kate Rudolph [Rudolph, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Celestial Heart Press
Published: 2023-10-03T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Under any other circumstances, Aria would get lost in this kiss. Kissing Knox felt like coming home, and she wanted that. She wished she deserved it. But the fire all around them teased her nose, and the kiss turned harsh. Punishing.

She shoved him away and stumbled back, the heat of the flames licking her back. Aria didn't know how she'd avoided getting burned when she ran through the fire before, but she wasn't about to test her luck again. There was no getting away a second time.

Her luck had finally run out.

Was an angry dragon worse than Imperium justice?

She watched Knox warily as he raised his hand to his face and ran his thumb over his lips. He watched her watch him, and his eyes seemed to swirl with the same fire that surrounded them. Did it have to be so freaking sexy?

This was why you weren't supposed to fall for the mark. Aria should have been figuring her way out of this mess, instead she couldn't stop looking at Knox and wishing things were different.

She tried to reassure herself with the fact that she hadn't actually stolen anything. Yet. In her mad dash out of the townhouse, she'd left her glasses behind, and she cursed herself for forgetting that evidence of her intent. They'd been blinking at her for hours, harmlessly reminding her that she could betray Knox at any time she wanted.

Problem was, she didn't want to.

From the way his shoulders heaved, he didn't care that his vault was safe for now.

Aria didn't say anything. His mention of Greendeyl brought up every terrible memory of her time there and she wasn't going back, not ever.

"Why are you here?" Knox asked. He kept a couple of feet between them, but there wasn't any more space for either of them to go. Strangely, his fire wasn't making it too hot in their little circle. A small, definitely insane, part of her was tempted to reach back and touch it.

"Why do you think?" Anything she said could be used against her, and there was no hope for a fair trial when the person accusing her was a damned lord.

"I know you're a thief. I know you went to prison. And I know the IDA sent you here to me. What I don't understand is why. So tell me." He managed to loom, even with the space between them.

So he hadn't realized the IDA had no idea who she was. It was why Ragnar had needed her to do the job. He'd managed to hack the IDA system and set himself up as Knox's point of contact. Aria was one of the only people he knew who fit any of the criteria Knox had been looking for.

"Why, Aria? Is that even your real name?" His anger was bleeding into disappointment, and that cut even deeper.

"It is." Part of this job meant always having the next lie ready and keeping your true self as far out of it as possible. But for the past couple of days, Aria had been nothing but herself.

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