Honeymoon With A Stranger. Frances Housden
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Название: Honeymoon With A Stranger
Автор: Frances Housden
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика
Серия: International Affairs
isbn: 9781472035295
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Easing the door open, he slipped out onto the top landing and down the stairs, confident of being back before she even knew he was gone.
As well as contacting Thierry, there was the layout of the house to reconnoiter and an escape route to plan. This time, he would be prepared, and should another gorgeous woman chance to cross his path, he’d step aside and let her go on by.
With Roxie, he was sailing too close to the wind.
Let her believe he was a criminal. He didn’t care. Nor would he let her know that no matter what he’d told her, he wouldn’t stand by and watch anyone harm her.
It took him thirty minutes to reconnoiter the house and talk to Thierry. The question uppermost in his mind had been answered.
The identity of the fourth man.
IBIS had identified the owner of the house, Monsieur Victoire Sevarin, deputy minister of France’s Department of Defense.
No matter how deeply some internal security agencies scrutinized the backgrounds of their employees, one rotten apple always managed to taint the whole barrel.
Sevarin’s had been the hand that controlled France’s biotech weapons research. Who better to acquire Green Shield than the man who was supposed to control its destruction?
One problem solved, a thousand to go.
Already aware of Sevarin, Thierry’s priorities took an oblique angle. “Who was the girl?”
He gave Thierry all the information he had, which didn’t include her surname. How to explain that the blood running hot in his veins had put a little thing like surnames out of his mind.
It wasn’t the type of information Mac wanted to get around.
Back in the attic, Mac locked the door, with no one the wiser that he’d been gone. Quickly discarding his clothes, he padded over to the bed and slid under the pile of quilts covering Roxie.
As soon as his body hit the mattress, the extra weight sent her rolling toward him. She snuggled against him without waking. Then wrapped around him, tangling her legs with his as if they always slept that way.
It was a long night.
Roxie’s head rested serenely on his chest as the sky began to turn from blue-black to gray. He hadn’t slept, but that was something he was used to. It hadn’t taken him long to discover she’d ditched the T-shirt she’d been wearing in the half hour he’d been gone. Now the soft swell of her lace-covered breasts presented him with a tease he didn’t dare respond to.
He was totally firm about that in his mind.
His body had no such scruples.
Mac discovered when it came to Roxie, no amount of reciting times tables or logarithms could suppress the erection lying between them. It pressed into the welcoming curve of her belly as if it had a mind of its own.
As soon as the sun came up, he would leave her in bed and treat his libido to a cold shower, since that looked like being the only reprimand it understood.
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