Naked Risk (Shatterproof #3) by Jordan Burke

Author:Jordan Burke [Burke, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B00LSYBK3S
Published: 2014-07-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen – Catherine

Watts held my hand as he drove to the hotel.

“This is where you’ve been staying?” I asked as he pulled into a parking space.

He nodded. He’d been quiet during the drive, his face taking on that intense expression of his.

We got out of the car and he grabbed the bag of stuff he had taken from my apartment. We walked into the hotel through a side entrance, and took the stairs to the second floor.

The room was nothing fancy, but I hadn’t been expecting a penthouse suite or anything. I hadn’t been thinking about it at all, actually. I just wanted to be with Watts and nowhere near my apartment.

“Can I take a quick shower?” I asked. I still had some of Winnie’s hair on me, I remembered, the whole reason I had gone to my bedroom in the first place barely more than an hour ago.

“Of course. I need to make a phone call anyway.”

By the time I got out, Watts was sitting in a chair by the window, looking outside. He spun around and watched me walk toward him, wrapped in a towel. I sat on his lap. I put my arms around his neck and lowered my head to his shoulder. I shivered from the cold.

“Want me to turn the AC off?”

“No,” I said. “I’ll be fine.” I rested my head against his and thought about all that was happening. “Who would do something like that to me?” I asked, my mind going mostly with the theory that it was a random act.

“Someone you know.” Watts’s cold, matter-of-fact answer stunned me. I don’t know why that hadn’t crossed my mind. “I don’t really know anyone, though. You know that.”

“Tell me,” he said. “I need to know any men you know, any men you’ve been involved with—”

“None.” I cut him off. “You know how I live.”

He shook his head. I wasn’t sure if it was a sign of him not believing me, or him thinking that I wasn’t understanding him.

“What?” I said.

He sat straight up, putting his hands on my sides and holding me steady. He turned me just enough so that our eyes met and he stared intently at me as he spoke.

“Tell me some men you know. Some guys who’ve asked you out, or shown any kind of interest in you at all.”

I hated to think of it, but the first name that came to mind was Tony Alvedo, the security guard at work. He’d always been nosy and more than a little creepy.

“Maybe this security guard from work,” I said, tentatively.

Watts picked up on my tone immediately. “You don’t sound so sure.”

I shook my head. “I’m not.”

“Think,” he said. “Guys from the dating site?”

My stomach churned. I had never told Watts about the one guy I had met for coffee. The lawyer. I had to tell him, so I did.

His reaction didn’t surprise me. His brow furrowed, his nostrils flared, his lips pressed together.

“I never told you. I’m sorry.”

He shook his head. “It’s fine.

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