Intense Pleasure

MONTH

r he owed his brother a

lcon thought

she managed to fo

n Summer Bartlett, aka

ed in her brother’s home

her hair a neat little c

long. All those long so

of his heart had bee

bedroom after warning

sed that she’d cut her h

had been a damned ruse,

k guaranteed to make hi

e at least, when she

e stood on the balcony

waist-length waves of ra

ender, petite body clad

caress tanned flesh as s

l enjo

mned hard it was all

brother, Raeg snorte

he gets off far too easi

it for

other, his jaw tightenin

nts he wondered what h

er for this job. Perhap

t choice in accompanyin

tecting her from it. Ther

ave been so critical of

woman s

red, to believe Raeg’s

o on the surface? That

nd in Summer in DC

inat

he knew

nion on her reasons wh

r. “Searching for a wom

roblematic if I continu

ave kno

Falcon,” Raeg pointed

to understand motivati

. “If she gave a damn

you or anyone else, th

enough to

as he had known at the

serious about gettin

a part of for so long. Ju

o the political soci

e had attempted severa

ad been so loath to lose

hat was a mistake he sh

A mistake he woul

he note she had left at

red of shooting at others,

and tried and true en

being reti

e her? In the space of

who had helped shape h

tedly, and she’d been f

s a friend for

ave

e to save him, because

ally attempt to

t not for her,” he remi

trigger when I c

stered rather than pulli

at may

ead, he lifted the wate

the vision still standing

ead to toe, loving the br

have her good points,”

“I said she fooled you

ers through his hair w

f he could ever convinc

ault with Summer wasn’t

r made Raeg see what he

hungered for a woman s

he was, if he was to h

ld have to walk away fro

h the agony of re

er, Falcon thought, som

use he knew too they’d h

far t

rned and reentered the

nued to watch the area.

to tell her why he had c

e was running out of ti

day that she stayed out

consequences coul

he told Raeg, hating th

any security she may ha

ince lea

getting out, he coul

e past month of consideri

ut, he could

gent, but she was also

same terms, with the same

friendships meant far mo

les were different in th

ed a friend would have a

life she w

al about her, Falcon,”

other tried to hide in

What both of u

of the past coul

agovich to kill her the

uriously. “He nearly di

egged her to take the job

entity sold to the bast

n’t even consider not pro

s she’d saved his life.

o you not go back to DC

Connor to come out and

he works wel

Raeg thought furiously,

might get along fine wi

xcept for the fact that

t Summer i

op with the demands th

stop making ex

excuses for yourself,”

eel his frustration level

rom this will not enda

ving her would.

imself of that, no matte

con the cost of forgetti

of that hell once already

a woman who affected

ever