Heated Pursuit

by April Hunt

  Elle met her rescuer glare for glare, except hers was directed into his mirrored sunglasses. He was larger than he looked even from across the room, the top of her head barely reaching his shoulders.

  “If you think that would be a deterrent for me, sweetness, you’re mistaken. And as for manhandling you into position, I’d be more than happy to cover your body with mine, but I sure as hell wouldn’t be sitting on you. Now get. In. The. Car. Now.”

  That voice. His smell. Familiarity tugged at her memory while her body shifted into a pheromone-driven DEFCON 1. Elle’s eyes widened in recognition, but she didn’t know how it was possible. Or why. First the man from the alley and now…him.

  She teetered sideways, would’ve face-planted on the sidewalk if it hadn’t been for the hands pulling her against a strong, wide chest that didn’t belong to a stranger. She didn’t need to imagine what he looked like beneath his clothes. She knew. She knew how his body felt against hers, knew that each touch felt like she’d touched an exposed electrical wire. Those hands especially had given her a lifetime’s worth of happy-place memories.

  With trembling hands, Elle slid the sunglasses off her wall lounger’s nose and stared into the same green eyes in which she’d allowed herself to get lost in a dingy Thai bar.

  And in the room above.

  And in the bed in that room.

  Elle Monroe, humanitarian nurse and ever-responsible daughter of a United States senator, stood in front of her one and only—and forty-eight-hour recent—one-night stand.

  About the Author

  April Hunt blames her incurable chocolate addiction on growing up in rural Pennsylvania, way too close to America’s chocolate capital, Hershey. She now lives in Virginia with her college sweetheart husband, two young children, and a cat who thinks she’s a human-dog hybrid. On those rare occasions she’s not donning the cape of her children’s personal chauffer, April’s either planning, plotting, or writing about her next alpha hero and the woman he never knew he needed, but now can’t live without.

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  Copyright © 2016 by April Schwartz

  Excerpt from Holding Fire © 2016 by April Schwartz

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  ISBNs: 978-1-4555-3945-1 (mass market), 978-1-4555-3946-8 (ebook), 978-1-4789-1330-6 (audiobook, downloadable)

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