Chapter 4

Dave sighed. Looking at Chelsea seemed like just a dream, and damn, she was even lovelier than he recalled. No longer the model sweetheart girl who’d been his sister’s best friend. No longer the little pretty girl next door who used to delight in racing through the male population of massive billboards, but a matured woman with a refined beauty that stirred everything male in him.

Not to mention his friend down there. What happened to them anyway? A year ago, after his sister’s wedding, he vanished into nothingness to avoid anyone tying Chelsea into his life just because he didn’t want to repeat what happened. He knew Alfonso wasn’t kidding when he told him that the woman he loved was under the bastard’s watch and anytime they could kidnap and hurt Chelsea in any way, he avoided her like the plague.

Memories of a night two years ago came to life in his mind in vivid, erotic detail. Her warm, naked skin against his. Her sweet, breathless cries as he tasted every virgin inch of her beautiful body. Her trusting, open-hearted gaze as he made love to her for the first-and only

-time.

How she must have hated him afterwards. Yes, he knew Chelsea wasn’t the commitment type of gal and she detested being in a relationship, but he hoped for something else, but fate intervened.

He’d despised himself enough for both of them. If he’d been in the least to blame for pushing Chelsea toward another man-especially one like Hermano-he would never forgive himself. And if he wanted to pretend he had forgotten her even for a moment during the past year, seeing her beside him now was as if all that time had simply evaporated.

He didn’t know what he was going to do with her now. She sure as fuck hadn’t been part of the equation when he’d set out on tonight’s mission, but seeing her again had changed everything. Once he had spotted her inside the mansion, nothing would have kept him from making sure she was safe.

Not even Chelsea herself could have stopped him. So much for a simple operation going according to plan. Dave forced his gaze away from her and put both hands back on the wheel. His eyes trained on the road, he buried the Ferrari’s accelerator and headed for the highway that would take them back to the nearest airport, back to London.

*****

Chelsea couldn’t wake from the sleep that cocooned her. Nor did she want to. Warm fingers stroked the side of her face as she slept, soothing her with a touch that was both sheltering and enticing. So strong. So infinitely gentle. Dave’s touch.

Wait, what?

even if her mind struggled to comprehend it. His caress felt like a dream, but it was real. As real as he was, seated close enough to her that

her mind were cushioned in cotton. Then

seeing Dave inside his father’s mansion. Her dread at learning what he had come there to do. She remembered him insisting that she leave with him, go somewhere safe. When she refused, he

the loose threads of the fading trance. She opened her eyes and found Dave glancing at her. His handsome face and solemn

hand away from her face now. She instantly missed the warmth,

leather seat. On the other side of the passenger window, the nighttime landscape was a blur. Jesus, Dave was driving like a bat out of hell. She

worry about him. He was mine to deal with. And I

swamped her. “You killed

looked at her, his expression was grim. “I

God. “Where

You’ll be safest at my command centre

those years ago now made his living dealing in violence, she also knew that no one-not even the Order-could protect her from the worst

let you out?” He gaped at her as if she had lost her mind. “Sweetheart, we’re going a hundred and twenty miles an hour.” “I have

worry, she fumbled with her seatbelt, unfastening it and tearing it away from her body. She had to get out of the car and go back to beg Hermano’s

he was

God, don’t let him be

she failed to protect them. A sob racked her throat.” Goddammit, I said stop this fucking car!” He slowed the growling sports car and eased off the empty highway to the shoulder. As soon as the vehicle stopped, she leapt out. She paused only long enough to

her path, his big male body

her senses. When she tried to dodge him, his hands came

Chelsea. Tell me what this is

she thought about what they might be enduring because

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