“The hours on the door say open until 5 p.m. That’s twenty-five minutes from now. Do you have anyone else on the payroll?” “Not today,” she called back. “I’ll watch the counter while you two do the bottle thing.” Jigging the ...
Deep-seated contentment. She was literally glowing. “Shelley’s asleep,” she said softly, stepping aside to let him in. “You got my message?” “Uh-huh. Great that Max was there to help with all that water. You’ll miss him when ...
He stripped her of her evening gown, got rid of his tux, and that was before they made it to the bedroom. They made love and their coming together this time was different, more honest—at least it was for him. As dawn spread its fingers up and beyond the horizon he decided he should at last let he...
Helene asked as she followed Darius over a landscape that, given his stride, he knew very well. “Alexio should be here by now. Or maybe when he couldn’t find us, he decided to go back. Get help.” “I’ll make the call when we get to the villa.” Helene...
Unaware of his company, the man dragged the shirt up over his head. At the same time Phoebe’s throat thickened and her mouth went bone-dry. After a criminally toned abdomen and broad chest were revealed, he bunched the shirt into a ball and set about towelling all that premium meat and muscle. Ph...
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A woman leaped out and, without shutting the driver’s door, sailed up the back steps. Maddy clutched her chair’s arms while her gaze hunted down Jack. He’d heard the engine before she had. Had pushed up and now came to a stop by the veranda rail, his weight shifted to one side so that the back po...
The sound of water pipes told him that Helene was running a bath. Having walked around the island for hours, freshening up sounded like a fine idea. After a cool shower, he wrapped the towel around his hips and strolled out into his bedroom. Automatically, his gaze landed ...
Bailey supposed he saw all he needed to know in her eyes. He angled and, before she could think beyond I need you to kiss me, she was in his arms and he was moving down the hall, away from her suite, headed for his. The tall double doors of his suite were open. He didn’t bother to kick them shut ...
Tate had chatted constantly but, worn out, he now slept in the back of the rental. In the passenger seat, Shelby held onto her seat belt and simply gazed out the window, watching people as they rolled down a wide small-town road. Dex hoped this would be a good time for her. A good time for them a...
On the day of her father’s funeral, sitting in a packed chapel and dressed in something black, Vanessa’s mind was dark and heavy, stuck in a fog. There’d been the pronouncement at the hospital, followed by a blur of arrangements that hadn’t seemed in any way real. A week a...
The boss is on the warpath.” Yanked from her thoughts by that familiar Brit voice, Taryn glanced up to find Roman Lyons poking his head into her office. She lowered her pen to her desk. “Guthrie?” “No. The younger Mr. Hunter....