Lethal Game by Christine Feehan

Author:Christine Feehan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

11

Malichai lay in bed, staring up at the ceiling, Amaryllis cuddled close to his body. He hadn’t been a man who ever slept with a woman close. Or at all. It wasn’t his thing, until right then. He needed her close to him. When she’d gotten up and said she was going back to her room, he hadn’t been able to stand the idea of the two of them apart.

But still . . . there was something nagging at him. It just wouldn’t leave him alone. His brain refused to shut down, alarms whispering, looping through his mind over and over. The warnings weren’t loud, just a soft background noise that refused to be quiet. Something was wrong. Something was off and he needed to figure it out. He knew it wasn’t immediate, no one was threatening them, but once he felt this kind of warning, he knew it was only a matter of time before trouble was on his doorstep. He also needed to tell Amaryllis what they had learned from interrogating Henry Shevfield. He wasn’t looking forward to that conversation.

“Malichai?” Amaryllis’s voice was soft, a barely there sound, as if instinctively, she was aware of the need for silence. “Can’t you sleep?”

He stroked a caress over her hair, trying not to get lost in the feel of silk. Her head was against his bare chest and the slide of silk over his skin sent hot blood rushing to his groin. He’d been enjoying the sensation, liking that his woman, even in her sleep, could arouse his body the way she did, but there was that whisper in his mind that something wasn’t right. Something was off. Maybe he just needed to have that difficult talk with her he didn’t want to have. He knew better, but it was one more thing . . .

“I can go back to my room,” she offered. “You’re not used to sleeping with anyone.” There was a hint of satisfaction in her voice.

“Go back to sleep, baby. I think I’m just going to take a quick walk around the house and make certain everything is quiet.” She wasn’t getting out of sleeping with him, no matter how hard she tried.

She wrapped her arm around his hips. “Talk to me, honey. What’s got you uneasy?”

“I don’t know. That’s the problem. Something’s nagging at me—” He broke off, because what was it? Something silly, really. “How did Tag know Lorrie was here? Those women were actually very smart covering their tracks the way they did. They gave up their place, renting it out so they don’t lose anything, and couch surfed, so they didn’t leave a trail. This was the first time they paid for a place to stay. Maybe he had someone watching for credit card activity, but that seems a little over his head.”

Amaryllis sat up slowly. She stayed close to him, fitting her body against his hip. “No, they actually paid cash. Marie told me because it’s extremely unusual. They paid for a month’s stay for the three of them.

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