Her body arched backward so forcefully that he almost lost her to the sea. He was so startled by her sudden
He shook his head and eyed Roarke. You don't look like a cop.I'm not and thank you for noticing.
He needed to call Eve.He looked across the field, across the silvered mists and gentle rise of aching green. Rather than pull out his pocket-link he continued to toy with the button. He didn't want to...
He eased the door open, scanned right and left, then slid into the corridor and into the room across it. Machines beeped and hummed, monitoring whatever poor bastard lay in the bed. Staying out of the...
Gold winked at his wrist as he pressed his choice for two coffees on the AutoChef built into the side panel. Cream?Black.A woman after my own heart. Moments later, he opened the protective door and of...
Fuck me sideways.Thanks, but you’re just not my type.You’re sure.I’m sure men are my type, but if I went for women, I’d do you.
Eve woke, violently aroused. It was Roarke’s hands on her. She knew their texture, their rhythm. Her heart tripped against her ribs, then bounded into her throat as his mouth covered hers. His was gre...
Eve told him as she swung a leg over the steel safety wall, lowered herself over the edge. The wind didn’t seem quite so pleasant when she was dangling seventy stories over the street, nudged on a ste...
Eve didn't get it, just didn't get it. Who the hell decided everyone was supposed to go mad with romance and gift buying on some random day in February? Hadn't everybody just gone mad with good cheer...
Eve (to Roarke): Whatever happened to me back in Dallas, I came out of it. I'm standing here because of it. Maybe I have everything that matters to me, including you, because of it. If that's true, I'...
Don’t you swat away my concerns like they’re gnats around your ears. He got to his feet as well. Don’t you dare make light of them, Eve, or what it is to me to sit and wait.
Damn it, Roarke, he’s going to come back and poke at me, and try to make me drink one of his weird brews. I just need a hot shower. Let me up. Have a heart.I do, and it’s yours.
Cut it out. She gave Peabody a shove. You’re making my eye twitch.We’re just sitting here.I know sex giggles when I hear them.I wasn’t giggling.Not you. Him.McNab just grinned at her. Those were manly...
Criminal activity does have its appeal. Otherwise there wouldn’t be so many criminals.
Christ, she missed him outrageously. Disgusted with herself, she ducked her head under the spray and let it pound on her brain.When hands slipped around her waist, then slid up to cup her breasts, she...
But that was personal. No one, absolutely no one comes into our home and speaks to you that way.
But getting the sinner where justice deemed he belonged was the trick. It required a system. And the system demanded its rules, techniques, manpower, organizations, and loopholes. And the occasional s...
Breath is life. You are not the pebble washed to shore by the wave, but the fish that swims in the wave. Breathe in to fill, to draw in the light.
Breath is life. You are not the pebble washed to shore by the wave, but the fish that swims in the wave. Breathe in to fill, to draw in the light. Slow, he told her, with awareness. Breathe out to emp...
Bad guys, in their various forms, on their various levels, didn’t take time off.