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Don’t you mean a whole lot you have to confess to her?
When severalfrom the bathroom, he sat up What if she’d fallen down? The woman was hot as sin, and yet, he couldn’t deny her tendency toward clu
He yelled, "Holly? Baby? You okay?"
No answer
A funny, panicked feeling rooted in his gut Nick raced to the bathroom Ehts His clothes were in a pile right where he’d left theht Hers were nowhere to be found
His eyes locked on the keycard sitting atop the desk
Dammit She’d just snuck out? Without a word to him? Why?
Nick jerked on his jeans, threw on his shirt and pulled on his boots He found his truck keys in the pocket of his coat He patted the right back pocket of his jeans and came up empty
"Oh no Oh hell no"
Frantic, he crawled around on the floor Looked under the chair, in the couch cushions, under the bed, in the bathroom, on the shelf in the closet, in the dresser drawers and he didn’t find it
He stared at the ru believe this!"
Mistress Christht
All uilty she couldn’t concentrate She wondered if Nick had gotten one? Or worse,out had been a childish reaction and she owed hi
But her search for his telephone nues produced no results True, her own number was unlisted, but that was pretty iven her a fake na after" experiences left her no choice but to call Ivy, ask her advice and coone doith one of her club’s customers after hours She touched the receiver Then slowly took her hand back
She’dshe’d been too jittery to eat, but now she was starved
No You’re stalling
Holly plopped her purse on her desk She browsed the take-outaround absentmindedly in the inside pocket for her wallet, her hand brushed unfaasped and yanked her hand back as if it’d connected with a snake
Heart thu made of…snakeskin
"What the hell?" She lifted out the surprisingly heavy wallet and had a ht after she’d arrived at the hotel, Nick had grabbed her purse and tossed it aside Faced with the sexual heat in his eyes, she really hadn’t cared what’d become of her purse or what’d been in it
Then Nick had taken the first condom out of his wallet and whipped it aside too Evidently his billfold had landed on top of her assorted purse wreckage, and in her haste to leave, she’d inadvertently shoved his wallet in her purse along with everything else
Now you knohere he lives Now you can find out if he ho he said he was
No That’s snooping That’s wrong
But don’t you think he’ll want his wallet back?
Yes She needed a minute to think
Take your time but you knohat you have to do You knohat you want to do
As the voices warred inside her head, Holly stared at the black snakeskin, as if it really were coiling and hissing for her attention Taking a deep breath, she flipped the bi-fold wallet open…and froze clear to the marrow of her bones
"Oh shit Oh-shit-oh-shit-oh-shit-oh-shit-oh-shit"
Nick West ho he said he was But the badge on the inside flap of his billfold told her he’d left out one teeny tiny detail: Nick West was a cop
"Oh shit Oh-shit-oh-shit-oh-shit-oh-shit-oh-shit"
She reached for the phone
"This is Detective West," he snapped
"No offense, but you sound pissed off"
"Newsflash: I arowled Which only h
"Is this a bad time?"