By: Cindi Myers
Undercover FBI agent David
Abruzzo will do anything to keep from blowing the case of a lifetime, including
marrying a total stranger on the Vegas Strip. A loner who’s devoted his life to
bringing down mob boss Frank Zacolli, David doesn’t have room in his life for
any weakness or attachments. But his surprise bride might be the one woman who
can turn his life around and make him willingly surrender to a love he never
thought possible.
He took her hand. The good-bye
seemed terribly formal for a woman who was, after all, his wife. He’d probably
never see her again, but he already knew he’d never forget her. The life he
lived didn’t leave room for sentiment or self-indulgence, but maybe this once…
“Would you mind if I kissed you?”
he asked.
She moved closer to him and put
her hand on his shoulder. “You probably kissed me in the chapel, but I don’t remember.”
He scarcely remembered that hasty
peck on the lips himself; all of his senses had been focused on the two thugs
at the back of the room waiting for the
opportunity to kill him.
“I think you owe me a kiss I’ll
remember,” she said.
He didn’t need a second
invitation. He covered her mouth with his own, tasting peppermint toothpaste
and a vanilla-tinged lip balm. She rested one hand on his chest, palm over his
heart, and eased the other up the back of his neck, her fingers twining in his
hair, a surprisingly intimate gesture. Some of the tension eased from his
shoulders and spine as he gave himself up to that kiss, even as she stepped
away.
“Good-bye, David,” she said
softly, and moved to the door.
“Good-bye, Laura.”
The door closed with a soft click and he sank onto the bed once
more, his elbows resting on his knees, head in his hands. What the hell had just happened?
His mother used to talk about
fate. She believed everything, even bad things, happened for a reason. But his
mother hadn’t done anything to deserve even half the bad things that had
happened to her.
And what had David done to
deserve a woman like Laura in his life? He’d made a career of hanging out with
scum, and even though he was on the right side of the law, he walked a narrow
line and had done his share of unsavory things in the name of justice. What had
such a sweet girl ever done to deserve an encounter with a tarnished guy like
him?
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