His gaze drifted down again, but he flashed back to attention when she stepped closer, her nose bare inches from his, her lashes lifting with lust-building slowness to reveal emerald green depths.
His tie tightened to near strangulation level, but he couldn’t move, let alone do something about it. Green eyes were always trouble for him. Too bad proximity and hormones took the edge off caution. If his partner, Delaney, were here, he’d recognize the signs of Mickey on the verge of falling in lust again. But Delaney wasn’t here. The lucky bastard was in bed.
Carpe Diem. Mickey knew his smile was his best opening gambit and produced it with practiced ease. “Hello.”
Luci studied the smile, recognized the confidence and the intent behind it. She’d met smiles like this one. Smiles that were confident of their charm. Smiles that expected weak knees and a cessation of rational thought. It was fortunate she had a built-in immune system to charming smiles and didn’t ever do rational thought. It went with being a Seymour, though her knees, just for a moment, signaled a willingness to depart from the norm. She reminded herself she was the result of a departure from the norm and said, “That’s my pig.”
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Other Books by Pauline Baird Jones
Available in print, digital and audio.
Romantic Suspense
The Big Uneasy Series:
Relatively Risky (1.0)
Family Treed (1.5)
Dead Spaces (2.0)
Lonesome Lawmen Series:
The Last Enemy
Byte Me
Missing You
Lonesome Mama (Bonus short story)
(The Lonesome Lawmen is also available as a digital bundle)
Do Wah Diddy Die
The Spy Who Kissed Me
A Dangerous Dance
Science Fiction Romance/Paranormal
Out of Time
An Uneasy Future
Core Punch (A Baker & Ban!drn Adventure)
Sucker Punch (A Baker & Ban!drn Adventure) (Releasing in 2015)
Project Universe Series:
The Key
Girl Gone Nova
Tangled in Time
Steamrolled
Kicking Ashe
Short Story Collections
Project Enterprise: The Short Stories
The Mystery Collection
Let’s Fall in Love
Take a Chance on Me
About the Author
Pauline Jones had a tough time with reality from the get-go. After “schooling” from four, yes FOUR brothers, she knew that some people needed love and others needed shooting. Pauline figured she could do both. Romantic suspense was the logical starting point, but there were more worlds to explore, more rules to break and minds to bend. She grabbed her pocket watch and time travel device and dove through the wormhole into the world of science fiction and even some Steampunk.
Now she wanders among the genres, trying a little of this and a lot of that, rampaging through her characters' lives like Godzilla—because she does love her peril (when it's not happening to her). Never fear, she gives her characters happy endings. Well, the good characters. The bad ones get justice.
For more information about Pauline and her books, visit her website at www.paulinebjones.com
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This is a work of fiction, and is produced from the author’s imagination. People, places, and things mentioned in this story are used in a fictional manner.
© Cover photograph by WyoJones.
Copyright © 2015 Pauline Baird Jones
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ISBN: 978-1-942583-02-8
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