A Love Song for Always - Piper Lawson Page 0,51
a way no man who deals in deeds and dollars has a right to. His hair, dirty blond in the setting sun hours ago, has warmed in the string lights and torches.
When Beck barks out a laugh, Harrison murmurs a clipped response I can’t hear before scanning the beach.
Beautiful. Precise and dangerous, a hunter content to watch its prey until the last minute, knowing he can bring any other person or creature to their knees by saying the word.
Tonight, he’s not the hunter.
He’s the prey.
He just doesn’t know it yet.
I set my empty wine glass in front of the bartender, who tops it up without a word.
“Dude. You’re on an express train to a liquid coma.” Elle studies me. “Unless you’re planning to ditch the dress and streak down the beach on our last night here, in which case, count me in.”
“I’m not.” I have a plan, and I’ve been killing time, or nerves, or both until I put it into motion.
Harrison King needs to be held accountable for his company’s actions.
A woman was physically assaulted at his club last week, and not a single staff person deigned to intervene.
Not only that, they refused to acknowledge it, burying the incident altogether.
My daily attempts to reach anyone higher up the food chain have failed.
Turns out the man in charge of everything fell into my lap.
This week might’ve been intended as a reprieve from the hustle, but one thing matters to me now.
Justice.
I turn back toward the bar, glancing at Elle. “There’s someone I need to confront. I didn’t want to do it until after the wedding, for Tyler and Annie’s sake.”
Her eyes dance, fascinated. “Really. In that case, I think we need something stronger.” She nods to the bartender. “Two tequilas, please.”
A moment later, they’re set in front of us.
“You’re not the confrontational type,” Elle says, sliding a shot over to me.
“I am if I’m pissed.”
“Cheers to that.” We clink our shot glasses, and I toss mine back.
The alcohol burns down my throat, and when Elle begs off to use the bathroom, I make a decision.
It’s time.
I square my shoulders and shift off my stool, my wedge sandals slipping in the sand.
I’m tipsier than I thought, my weight falling forward.
The feeling that I’m swimming rather than standing is sliced clean in two by the strong male hands that catch me by the waist and shoulders.
I open my mouth to thank my mystery savior, but the intrusion of a cool British tone has me pulling up short.
“I trust I didn’t miss the confrontation.”
Fuck.
My gaze drags up the hard body encased in an expensive dark suit to the strong jaw and electric blue eyes.
“Confrontation,” I echo, swallowing.
My prey dwarfs me even in my heels. That soul-stealing gaze studies me, insolent. “You told your friend you were preparing to confront someone. So, tell me. What did this person do?”
I grip the back of my stool for balance, jerking out of his grip. “Refused to take responsibility.”
His attention drags down my body, making the hairs on my arms lift in the night air and my nipples harden. That attention stops at my stomach. Lingers.
“Congratulations.”
“You think I’d be drunk if I was pregnant?”
“We don’t know one another that well yet. But I’m relieved to hear it.” The smirk on his lips says he was fucking with me. “So, if he’s not your lover, who is he, then?”
I’m caught in his eyes, glittering in the firelight. “He thinks he’s powerful.”
“He thinks or he is?”
I turn the glass in my hand. “He is in some circles.”
Harrison shifts closer, and his male scent invades my nose.
It’s dangerously refined, like the man himself, reminding me of old money and new sheets.
“Let’s go somewhere more private.” He tugs at the knot on his tie, and my pulse accelerates.
“What’re you doing?”
His firm mouth parts. “Getting comfortable. When a beautiful woman sets out to destroy me, I’m damn well going to enjoy it.”
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Chapter 1
Haley
Nothing in twenty years prepares me for that man on his knees.
Naked to the waist.
Sweat gleaming on his shoulders.
The spotlight caresses the ridges of a body cut from stone as