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Ruby slid her arers As soon as they passed Claude, she let out a shaky breath and followed Lucas’s lead toward the black hardtop Jeep waiting a few feet away Attraction sizzled its way up his ar on operation-ready alert He’d gone undercover as Luc too many times to count over the years and women had always been present to solidify his cover as a player, but the extra sensory awareness of another hu hadn’t happened before The fact that it had noith her, pissed him off
He opened the passenger door and pushed the seat forward before helping her into the backseat The Claude clone hadin the driver’s seat Ruby slid across the backseat, the h The flash of crea with his head
Lucas had two choices: in the back next to her, or shotgun where he’d have access to the door The argu that on this island there was nowhere to run if things went ass up The argu that he’d be next to Ruby and her distractingly delectable legs He let the passenger seat slide back into place and got in the front row It wasn’t a chicken move It was about situational awareness and control
Whatever you have to tell yourself, Bendtsen
Without a word to either of thele-lane road toward the main house Lucas didn’t bother to try and hide his curiosity as they sped down the road Noting the details of the gently sloping terrain and the guards posted along the dirt road fit in with his cover Luc wasidiot wasn’t one of them
Neither, it seemed, was Rolf Macintosh They’d no sooner stepped out of the Jeep in the gravel, circular driveway in front of the stone house tenthem down He expected this treat his palms down Ruby’s side
“I told you, Luc, there’s no place like ho to her words, but she didn’t resist the search
After a few uards stepped back e his plane top to botto else of interest They wouldn’t find anything Not that there wasn’t a sned the secret compartoons would find them
“Mr Macintosh is waiting in the house,” their driver said
“Thank you” Ruby raised her chin and took Lucas’s hand
The sizzle was back, zipping up his ar her naked and spread out on his bed, than with discovering the coordinates of the illegal gun exchange that would give Gregers Henriksen all the firepower he needed to launch a guerrilla assault on Elskov
His first instinct was to pull away, but that couldn’t happen, not when the front door opened, revealing Rolf Macintosh standing in the foyer looking every bit like a blond, buff, aging action-ht Joey Brotzka glowered at Lucas As good with his left hand as his right when it cauns or knives, he’d started out as muscle and worked his way up the food chain to become Rolf’s number two
Ruby tensed beside hi behind Rolf, Lucas realized his fiancée hadn’t told hi was definitely off here
“I understand congratulations are in order,” Rolf said as he led the back, si them to follow
Two aruards stood inside the doorway A flash of silver underneath Joey’s black blazer when he crossed to the fireplacea casual look around, he noted the solid red light above the video ca in the center of the large wooden desk After that, the less i contrast to thein the middle of it Dressed in all black just like his lackeys, Rolf was the biggest dark spot in the sunny room filled with muted yellows and pinks dotted with an explosion of the soft, feminine touches of ruffles and flowers