Queen Takes King by Grazer Gigi Levangie

Author:Grazer, Gigi Levangie [Grazer, Gigi Levangie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2009-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

35

OUTSIDE PASSED PAWN

JACKSON’S EYES opened in the early morning gray of Lara’s bare apartment. Taking a chance, being here. The vultures are probably outside, cameras ready, waiting. Last night made the risk worthwhile. Lara had fallen into a dead sleep on top of him; Jacks had even moved his hand across her rib cage to confirm her breath. If only he could have died pinned under her. Then he’d remembered that his day was very busy, and his life even more so, and that, at not even fifty, he was one of the most powerful men in America, and if America is the most powerful country in the world, then he, Jacks Power, was one of the most powerful men in the universe.

Dying? Dying was out of the question.

He’d watched, hawklike, as Lara bent over to pull on her sweats. Her skin gave off a slight gleam, the matching indentations above her hips like perfect thumbprints left by an unseen hand. Her blond curtain of hair descended over her features. She slipped out the door after grazing the top of his head with a kiss. Jacks was proud of her. He could live with his future wife waking early and leaving their bed. He could live with her fame. He could live with it because the job would make her stay. He and the job would work together to chain her to their city, to that desk, and to that camera, to his embrace.

Jacks Power went back to sleep, smiling.

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