The Last Stand 02 - Stop Me by Brenda Novak

Author:Brenda Novak [Novak, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Crime, Romance, Suspense, General, Kidnapping, Fathers of Murder Victims, Romantic Suspense Fiction, Criminal Profilers, Louisiana
ISBN: 9780778329053
Google: QqNMzVQbutIC
Amazon: 0778329054
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2008-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

“English, please.”

“You’re going to like the ride.”

“That doesn’t mean I won’t regret it later,” she said.

And he knew she was talking about a different kind of ride altogether.

Jasmine couldn’t get comfortable on the back of Romain’s motorcycle, not when she was trying so hard not to hold on to him. She kept changing the position of her hands, searching for a good grip on the bike instead, but then he’d make a turn or switch lanes, and she’d have to grab him again.

Eventually, he pulled over to the side of the road and flipped up the screen on his helmet. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing,” she said.

“Why do you keep fidgeting?”

“The speed and motion of the bike makes me nervous,” she said, but that wasn’t true at all. He made her nervous.

He twisted to see her clinging to the backrest. Then he muttered a curse, lowered the screen on his helmet and they took off again. After another few miles, however, he reached back one hand at a time and brought her arms around his waist, and she didn’t move after that because he went even faster and she was afraid she’d fall off if she let go.

When they reached Mamou, Jasmine was exhausted from two hours of fighting her natural inclination to let her body relax into his. But staring up at Romain’s parents’ neat, middle-class home she felt too tense to worry about the fatigue. His family had already started pouring out the front door—a motorcycle didn’t exactly make a quiet entrance.

“Here they come,” she whispered as he took her helmet.

He didn’t respond. He was getting the packages he’d wrapped in ice out of his saddlebags.

Jasmine smiled politely as a tall, rather austere-looking woman, who had to be Romain’s mother, drew close to shake her hand.

“Romain, you didn’t tell me you were bringing a date.” His mother was obviously pleased, so pleased and acutely interested in Jasmine that Jasmine immediately felt the need to explain.

“I’m not a date,” she said. “I’m just…someone who—” She glanced at Romain, seeking his help. She didn’t want to mention Moreau or the investigation, didn’t want to bring up a difficult subject. But he didn’t fill the gap in the conversation. “I’m someone who didn’t have anywhere to go for Christmas so Romain dragged me along,” she finished lamely.

She’d said it with a laugh, but it didn’t come off as funny, which made her feel like even more of an idiot. She’d engaged in passionate sex with this woman’s son for no real reason except that she’d wanted him too much to say no. And now she 142

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