Night Fall: A Novel by Cherry Adair

Author:Cherry Adair [Adair, Cherry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Suspense, Fiction, Romance, Love Stories, Paranormal, Terrorists, Plague, Africa
ISBN: 9780345499905
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2008-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

Ten

Simon had brought Kess back to the city a couple of hours before. He’d taken her to pick up a few basics at a local mall because he didn’t want her returning to her room at her hotel. They’d been led away from the city. To what purpose Simon had no idea. But he wasn’t letting Kess out of his sight until he knew.

Now they were in the president’s office as Abi got ready for a press conference.

Hair gleaming like a new penny, and skin glowing from their manic bout of lovemaking earlier, Kess stood beside the president searching through a flat box of neatly laid out silk ties on his desk. Simon sat in the chair opposite, admiring her focus despite the turmoil around them.

“I don’t need you here, Kess. I want both of you to go with the supplies,” Abi told them. “I’m sending fifty of my militia with you—just as a precautionary measure, of course. I don’t expect any trouble.”

Fifty militia didn’t sound like not expecting trouble. Fifty militia sounded like Abi expected some action. That single sentence told Simon just how much his friend had changed in the time since their college days. As he absently rubbed the pad of his finger along his chin, Simon read Abi’s body language and facial expressions as well as listened to the subtext of his conversation.

Maybe it was the evolution from carefree collegian to political power broker. Whatever the reason, this Abi was drastically different from the man he’d known. Simon felt a warning tickle at the back of his neck. Normally, he would have acted on his intuition but this was an old friend, so he tamped down the disquiet and turned his attention to Kess. Not exactly a difficult task since she was one hell of a distraction. Pleasantly so.

There was to be a press conference in fifteen minutes, and Abi had sent the camera crew to wait outside his office until he was ready. They’d set up the lights, leaving them directed at the president, so that he and Kess were spotlit while Simon, sitting farther back, was in shadow.

For a moment Simon simply watched Kess talking to Abi. He knew he had to get a grip on how often he looked at her. But that was easier said than done. He constantly found his gaze lingering on the sweet curve of her smiling mouth, or the way her gray eyes lit up with amusement. Maybe it was her lightness to his darkness that he found so damned fascinating. Perhaps it was because he found her unbearably sexy in a non-overt way. Her animation and zest for life, her interest, and her passion for her job, intrigued him.

Everything about this woman captivated him. It shouldn’t have. She was about as far from his ideal woman as possible. He’d always envisioned sharing his life with someone who’d be content to live in an isolated house in Montana. Not a June Cleaver, apron-wearing housewife, but definitely someone who would accept the demands of his job and be there waiting for him when he returned home.

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