Stack the Deck by Morgan Lennox

Author:Morgan Lennox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan Lennox

FYNN

I held her eyes as I spoke. “Complications like you asking me if I had a girlfriend?”

I was being bold—stupid. I knew that, but I had to point out why this woman had my heart beating so quickly I was sure she could hear it.

Evelyn looked at me, her eyes fierce and lips pressed together in that way I was starting to recognize.

She didn’t want to admit someone else was right.

My heart skipped a beat, then quickened again. Oh, this woman. Bold and brash and yet quiet and unsure of herself.

Sure of herself until she gave someone something of herself, her kisses, her truth, and then she crumpled like someone who had been hurt so badly, my hands curled into fists at the mere thought of whoever had done that to her.

Breathing out slowly, I forced my hands to relax. That wouldn’t help. Evelyn didn’t need to see my anger here, my protective nature soaring out of me against my will.

No, she needed reassurance. I couldn’t tell whether it was reassurance that I wouldn’t touch her again, or that I would.

Damn it.

“I…I-I didn’t mean—”

“I know you didn’t,” I said, putting the beautiful woman out of her misery. “Forget it.”

Besides, I didn’t know how to answer the question.

On the one hand, it was simple. Did I have a girlfriend? No. I was single, had been for a few years now.

One night stands didn’t count.

But the moment I admitted that to her, I knew what would happen. I would start to daydream that she and I, Evelyn and I were…

Well. More than we could be. More than was appropriate.

More than her brothers would certainly ever allow.

“You’re the one who said you’ve stacked the deck.”

“I didn’t know you’d be the dealer. Kiss me, Fynn.”

My jaw tightened. The odds were stacked against us, the deck designed to play us both poor hands.

We couldn’t win here. The desire we felt for each other, palpable in this room as I sat looking up at her, had to be ignored.

I would continue my investigation, be gone in two days, and Evelyn Cartice would continue as the Chief Legal Counsel of one of the most successful companies in the world.

“I am…damn, Evelyn, I will not leave before my time, but I promise you, I'm only looking for what I think is in the public interest to know,” I said, more defiantly than I had intended. “I'm not here to ruin you, or your family. There’s no cruelty in me. No matter what you might think.”

My stomach dropped as Evelyn slid onto the desk, her buttocks painfully close to my laptop. My eyes flickered to my screen, then just to the left and took in the warm swell of her ass.

Concentrate, man.

“You are looking for something scandalous, something that will end all our options for investment,” Evelyn pointed out quietly.

My gaze flickered to the door. This wasn’t a locked room, a place where no one was going to come—but then, the Cartice family had given it to me to work, hadn’t they? I wasn’t likely to see one of the Cartice brothers wander in.

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