Time is running out and the enemy is at the gate.
Contracted Defense
A Safeguard Novel
Piper J.
Drake
Genre: Romantic
Suspense
Release Date:
September 12, 2017
Publisher: Carina
Press
Adam Hicks may be the rookie at Safeguard, but he’s no novice in the field. Retired from active duty after multiple tours and back fresh from a brief rest in New Zealand, he’s itching to return to action. But the challenge he hoped for arrives in an unexpected form: his sexy yet stern new partner.
The last thing Victoria Ash wants is to work with the new guy—especially one as gorgeous as Adam. His relaxed attitude about their first "easy" assignment together—setting up a private home defense network for a reclusive client—doesn’t impress her. Easy usually means trouble. She’s proved right when Adam discovers that the multiple incursions on the physical and cyber security systems aren’t just glitches. They’re under attack…and there’s a traitor in their midst.
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She shrugged. “I
prefer to carry myself in a professional manner. Impeccable. Respectable.
Reliable.”
He frowned. As
she’d spoken, her comments had cut inward. Far from positive, her words had
turned bitter with remembered anger. There was the malaise he’d noticed about
her. It’d come and gone throughout their working session. It was a dark, ugly
cloud of thought eating her from the inside out. Consuming her and turning her
attention deep inside, she wasn’t even aware of his proximity anymore.
Well, couldn’t have
that.
He leaned in and
kissed her.
He’d intended to be
quick, startle her out of her thoughts. But as soon as their lips met, hers
parted in a gasp and he couldn’t resist the invitation. He took her deeper,
tasting.
She kissed back,
drinking him in and leaning into him. Her hands gripped his waist in
encouragement.
Just like that, he
was on fire and she was living flame under him. He’d backed her up against the
table until she was on her back. His hips fit between her legs, grinding until
they both groaned with the friction. He gripped her ass until she lifted her
legs and wrapped them around his waist. Her hands hooked behind his neck,
pulling him in for hungry kisses.
A sharp, happy bark
sounded outside.
Sucking in air, he
straightened and pulled her up to stand with him. They stumbled back from each
other. Each of them dragged their hands through their own hair in an attempt to
straighten themselves up.
A minute later,
there was a knock on the pool house door.
Piper J. Drake is a bestselling author of
romantic suspense and edgy contemporary romance, a frequent flyer, and day job
road warrior. She is often distracted by dogs, cupcakes, and random
shenanigans.
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