Protective Confinement by Miles Cassie

Author:Miles, Cassie [Miles, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-12-14T01:04:58+00:00

THE NEXT DAY, CARA SPOTTED several of the hidden surveillance cameras that were tucked away in corners, invisible unless you took the time to notice. She hated the idea of being watched. Her mood was edgy, tense.

Russell hadn’t responded to her e-mail. He’d tossed out his threat and vanished into cyberspace.

All day, she’d watched the clock. Would he take another captive? One a day. Dash had promised to tell her of any developments. Though she didn’t want to hear of another death, she needed to know.

In her room, she sat at the pine table by the window and sorted through the final term papers that had been picked up by FBI agents from her office at the university.

First, she worked her way through upper-level papers. A gratifying exercise. The archaeology majors had already learned the basics and were writing about more interesting topics. But she also taught an intro course with over forty students. These papers were mercifully short and much less than scholarly. She read a title aloud: “Egyptology, Graphology and Archaeology: Handwriting Analysis of the Rosetta Stone.”

Not much research here. “But he gets an A for creativity. Right, Yazzie?”

The cat lay sprawled in the center of her bed. He’d spent the morning strutting around in the barn, and she suspected he was happy for this chance to sleep. Acting the part of the stud took more energy than he was accustomed to.

Not so for Dash, who was effortlessly studly, even when he was doing nothing more interesting than drinking coffee. He’d surprised her last night by mentioning his grandfather and his happy childhood. Was he secretly a family man? The kind of guy who could settle down? Yeah, right. No way could she imagine Dash mowing the lawn and taking out the garbage.

She shuffled the papers again. It was important to get this work done today. Final exam week at the university was over and the grades for these students needed to be filed. Tomorrow was the tribal council meeting in Window Rock, and she hated to be dragging along a stack of term papers. Get to work.

But thoughts of Dash distracted her. It simply wasn’t fair for him to be so amazingly sexy. Intriguing. And so unreachable.

Now that she was aware of safe-house surveillance cameras, she had to keep her distance. Possibly that unnatural separation was the reason she was dying to touch him, to glide her hands over his muscular chest, to kiss him until they were both gasping. A forbidden attraction was so much more enticing.

As she stared down at the paper, the neatly typed words swam in her vision. Maybe she should just give all these students As and move on. Some things were more important than academics.

No way. Her life had always been about learning and school. She loved her career. Being a professor was hugely important. Wasn’t it?

Ever since that night when she’d fallen apart in Dash’s arms, she’d been thinking about family. Finding that one special man. Her priorities had changed.

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