His Risk to Take by Tessa Bailey

Author:Tessa Bailey [Bailey, Tessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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Amazon: B00CK51JT4
Published: 2013-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Sitting in the dark stairwell of Ruby’s building, Troy tried to fight his mounting panic. He’d received a call from the surveillance officer at eight o’clock telling him Ruby had gone into a yoga studio and never come out. His guy had canvased the neighborhood with no luck. She’d been long gone. Troy, wanting to go look for her himself, had been forced to sit and wait, aware that showing his face anywhere Ruby had recently been would be a bad idea. Being in her building, even hidden inside, wasn’t exactly the greatest idea he’d ever had, but the desire to see her clouded his judgment.

An hour having passed since the call, she still

hadn’t come home and wouldn’t answer her goddamn phone. Fear mixed with irritation and helplessness. An intolerable combination in his current frame of mind.

Troy shot to his feet with an expletive, intending to go look for her when he heard the sound of a key turning in the lock. His heart felt ready to beat itself out of his chest as he waited to see who would enter.

The heavy metal door pushed open to reveal Ruby, looking half-frozen with the damn yoga mat slung over her shoulder. She was beautiful, her hair floating around her shoulders courtesy of the wind gusting in through the door. In one hand, she held a half-eaten chocolate doughnut.

She’d actually stopped for a doughnut while he’d sat there, fearing for her life? With that, his anger reached its boiling point. “Where the hell have you been?”

Ruby’s entire body jerked with a cut-off scream, and the doughnut fell to the floor at her feet. She backed up against the wall, searching wildly in the dark, and finally noticed Troy a second later. When she saw him standing a few feet away, she sagged with undisguised relief, one hand pressed over her heart.

“Oh my God,” she whispered. “Are you crazy? You

almost gave me heart failure.”

Regret moved in his chest. It served to deflate

some of his anger, but not all. Not by a long shot. “No.

I’m not crazy. Crazy would be blowing off professional protection to go buy a fucking doughnut.”

Angrily, she kicked the fallen doughnut at him,

barely missing his dress shoe. “A doughnut I only got two bites out of!”

“Don’t try and be cute,” he warned, shaking his

head. “I am pissed as hell, Ruby.”

“We had a deal,” she said with a shrug, having the grace to look mildly contrite. “I spotted your guy, so I split. Next time, send someone with half a brain.”

“He’s the best I could find besides myself. He’s former military.”

“And yet…” She wrinkled her nose, head tilting to the side. “He lost me.”

Troy laughed darkly. “Oh, you have no idea the

kind of fire you’re playing with, baby.”

With an irritated huff of breath, she tried to skirt past him on the stairs. “Why don’t you go cool off, then? It’s my ass in trouble, so let me worry about it.”

“No, dammit.” He stopped her progress past him with a firm hand on her elbow.

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