His Christmas Assignment. Lisa Childs
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“So you came back to pick up strange men in bars?”
She glared at him. “You say that like you doubt I can.”
He hadn’t meant to challenge her. He knew she could pick up any man she wanted. Even him …
And he had no business letting her affect him. But his body ached with wanting hers. “I say that like I wonder why you’d want to,” he clarified.
“I think it’s safer picking up strangers than taking a chance on a man I know.” She sighed. “The men I know always disappoint me.”
“Maybe you didn’t really know them,” he said.
She met his gaze and held it for a long moment before nodding. “Maybe not …” She wriggled down from the stool, and her body pushed against his.
He remembered that night—remembered how close they’d been, nothing between them as skin had slid over skin.
She leaned closer, her lips brushing his ear, and murmured, “Or maybe I’ve known them too well …”
His Christmas
Assignment
Lisa Childs
Ever since LISA CHILDS read her first romance novel (a Mills & Boon story, of course) at age eleven, all she ever wanted was to be a romance writer. With over forty novels published with Mills & Boon, Lisa is living her dream. She is an award-winning, bestselling romance author. Lisa loves to hear from readers, who can contact her on Facebook, through her website, www.lisachilds.com, or her snail-mail address, PO Box 139, Marne, MI 49435, USA.
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Contents
Voices rose in anger, penetrating the thin walls of Logan Payne’s office. Garek Kozminski closed the outside door so softly that it made no sound. He probably could have slammed it and they wouldn’t have heard him enter. But he was used to moving silently. In the past, his freedom and even his life had depended upon it.
Not much had changed...
He crossed the reception area and approached Logan’s office—not to eavesdrop. Due to the volume of their argument, he could have heard them from the parking lot. Usually Logan didn’t yell; as the CEO of Payne Protection, he didn’t need to yell to be heard. The other voice was female and easily recognizable to Garek even though Candace Baker didn’t usually deign to speak