THE BILLIONAIRE AND THE DETECTIVE

it she was surprised when Eric a

didn't think you were

are exceptions. What can

I'll be downstairs

re." He waited a beat.

she managed to smother most of it. "My bad

ained himself by imagining Ella Naismi

too clear, too appealing, and had

ntasizing about Fred's daughter in any way whatsoever. Or what scent he'd find on the flesh, s

nk his teeth there, r

to see. She was forbidden fruit and therefore all the more alluring. She wasn't

ndlier women, he thou

ds on his office window. Which should solve his problem over Ella. Despite that short interl

job was done, they'd both go back to their separate

east she'd had the sense to drive, he n

me going down

ed around her, studied the flashy

M

ew police Detective! Oh wait, what w

zz me over a car, you're

nd rubbed the lapel of her subtly patterned br

an designers. We can co

the way the gold highlighted her eyes when he irritated he

see the

of it,

Let's

lled her badge out of her pocket, pushed it

I'll buy myself a lottery t

might want to took at." She too

ted no less. "Let's go up. I'

Go

he said as they walk

l

prog

tigation st

to the elevator. "We seem to be spendin

r heart a favor an

ever caused me

se

about

ors opened. "Wow, you actually let the sunligh

ted. Just soap and skin. Odd how erotic

king. l don't

walked over the doorway. lt was small bedroom. She noted, because it was

oked up and was mildly disappointed

," Eric told her when her

ady a statement.

but no

walls were a number of framed black and white photo

pursed her lips. So the man had a good ey

t man in a ragged straw hat sleeping on a cracked concrete stoop, a pape

de it. The old couple holding han

trast, despai

s full

arent

he assumed was a bath or washroom just beyond. She thought of the sex vibes Mary ha

mb at another door. lnstead the of answering

. "Now we're talking." The fully equipped gym was a g

s, doing a few absent curls as she roamed. Very telling, he thought, that

she pressed her nose to a little window of a

to try

on. And the sneer was back. "This is pretty elaborate when

ike. They also have regular hours. Strike two. A

u're a very partic

bottle of water out of a

nt o

ht, moved back to the door way. "Well, th

clock's