Betrayal of the Dove - By Capri Montgomery Page 0,40
Colorado, but he was in Hawaii for the past few weeks. I spent some time working out of there myself,” he nodded as if that explained everything crystal clear. “He can vouch for me if it comes to that. But I don’t want you to worry about me. Keep your distance from the man as much as possible.”
She nodded. Even though she wanted to defend him, she would honor his wishes. He clearly had a reason for wanting her to stay clear. “How long were you in Hawaii?”
“Not long,” he admitted with as few details as humanly possible.
“Were you stationed there, or something else?”
“That’s classified,” he said sternly. “Next question.”
His being stationed there wouldn’t be classified so clearly it was something else he was doing there. “Is my baby sister safe there or should I try to get one of my brothers to lock her in the attic and not let her leave?”
He threw his head back with a hearty laugh. She didn’t see anything funny about the question. She really wanted to know if there was something going on she should be worried about. When he settled down he looked at her and smiled. “I wouldn’t advise holding a person against their will. That’s a federal offense,” he grinned. “But yeah; I think she’ll be as safe there as she would just about anywhere else stateside.”
She nodded. “Thank you.” He couldn’t give her details about what had him in Hawaii, but at least he could give her enough to set her mind at ease—well, moderately at ease. She would always worry about Eve no matter how old she became.
“About our date tonight;” she smiled just thinking of the fact that she had labeled it a date when she couldn’t remember if he had. “Do you mind if I shower and change first?”
His eyes darkened in color, betraying his calm, cool and collected exterior look. She could tell he was anticipating their evening together just as much as she was. “Not at all,” his voice was low and completely male. That voice did things to her when it was singing out words like the G-string of a finely tuned century old cello. Now that it was inching towards a deep C-string vibration she was feeling those wicked sensations spread through her body deeper, stronger, harder. She felt her lips part as his eyes stared at her mouth as if he were envisioning what it would be like to kiss her right there. She felt her own breathing rapidly transition from normal to erratic with arousal.
“You don’t stop looking at me like that, Alyssa McGregor, and I’m going to come behind that case and take you right where you stand.”
“I…you’re looking at me,” she said incredulously.
“Honey, you’ve been staring me up and down as if I were standing here naked. You can do all kinds of things to a man with a look like that.”
“I was not,” she said as she felt the heat rush to her cheeks.
“Yes you were,” he smiled slyly. “And I promise you, next time I’m going to strip and let you see what you’re fantasizing about.” He winked at her before turning and going back into the security room; leaving her standing there with her mouth open and a shocked expression on her face. She laughed to herself, knowing she was blushing wildly.
“Oh gosh,” she said under her breath. “That man is going to be a handful.” The thought hit her like a freight train; she was ready to try to handle him too. Maybe Eve was right. Maybe now was the time for her to get over her last relationship disaster and open her heart to a romantic relationship again. Whether she was ready or not didn’t seem to matter because her heart had already convinced her brain that it was going to attach to the sexy man hiding out in her security room. Shane Maxwell. How could a man with a name like that not be delectably sinful?
She had a customer come in and she was in the process of ringing up the item when she heard his cell phone ring. That was the first time since he had been working for her that she had heard his phone ring during the day. When he started speaking she realized that she could hear his conversation clearly. She wasn’t trying to hear his conversation, she just did, and that told her that he could hear every conversation she had anywhere near the door. Suddenly she