License to Thrill by Tori Carrington

License to Thrill by Tori Carrington

Author:Tori Carrington [Carrington, Tori]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: The Magnificent McCoy Men
ISBN: 9781426861321
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1999-05-31T23:00:00+00:00


MARC DIDN’T KNOW what to believe. He was acting more on instinct than wisdom. Why had Mel run? He watched her curvy little behind, clad once again in the pink dress, as she opened the door to a posh D.C. hotel room. He groaned. He didn’t want to feel anything more than professional respect for her. Not any more. If she could leave him after last night…

Despite the partnership deal they’d struck, he was having trouble indulging in conversation with the new, reanimated Mel. On their ride to the city, she’d broached nearly every subject. Correction—every subject that had anything to do with Hooker. Sharing with Marc the details of the first letters Hooker had written—she’d sent the rest back unopened—telling him the frequency of Hooker’s phone calls where he professed his innocence. And of course she’d grilled Marc on everything he’d picked up over the past few weeks.

Throughout much of it, he’d remained silent, his hands attached to the steering wheel until he realized he was trying to pulverize it in his grip. All he could think of was he needed some space to think. Considering he’d had far too much space in the past three months, and that he’d been trying to get her to talk since he’d first put her into the back of his Jeep the day before, his reaction was not only unexpected, it was aggravating.

He rubbed the back of his neck. He felt used. Violated. Cheap.

He grimaced. He was reading too many of those damned magazines.

“We should be at some fleabag motel on the outskirts of town instead of in a four-star hotel,” he said under his breath, holding open the door so she could maneuver herself and the shopping bags she carried inside.

“What makes a motel safer?”

He glanced around the long fifth-floor hall, scoping out the fire exit directly across from their room. “Escape routes.”

She set the bags on a puffy, flowery ottoman and began rifling through them. “We’ve stood post at this hotel countless times. We both know exactly where the escape routes are, so what difference does it make?” She took a bra and a pair of panties from one bag, then a pair of jeans from another. “Besides, after where we stayed last night, I could do with a soft bed, cable and a bit of comfort.”

Comfort? He felt as though he was soiling the room just being in it. And every negative comment she made about last night jabbed at him like a well-placed punch.

He put down the pet carrier and his bag.

He turned to find her emptying a small amount of kitty litter into a box. He pulled a can of cat food from his bag—the contents of which he purchased when Mel was buying clothes. He let Brando out, holding the can up when the overgrown tom wound around his ankles. “Well, you’re none the worse for wear. You probably slept through the whole thing, didn’t you, sport?”

He looked up to find Mel watching him in a way he couldn’t immediately identify, a way he didn’t particularly welcome.



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