Blog Day 6.

Let’s do a blast from the past with THE WAY YOU LOVE ME.

Synopsis: Shane Elliott, former Army Ranger, head of security for a wealthy real estate tycoon, Blade Navarone, can handle whatever life throws at him–until he meets beautiful, kindhearted Paige Albright. She’s about to inherit a fortune, and Paige’s mother has asked Shane to investigate her boyfriend. It should have been a simple, standard assignment for Shane..if only Paige’s seductive mix of strength and vulnerability didn’t leave him wanting her for himself.

Excerpt:
THE WAY YOU LOVE ME
PROLOGUE

She moved him.

For longer than Shane Elliott could remember nothing and no one had touched his heart, made him remember he had a soul, except the two men who had walked through hell with him…until that night, until Paige Albright.

In the stillness of another restless night, he lay awake in bed and watched the shadows of the trees sway on the wall of the cottage behind the main house of Blade Navarone’s estate on Riviera Maya. Thousands of miles away from where they’d first met he could still feel her incredible softness, smell her haunting scent.

Most of all, he could see the fear in her eyes after he’d thrown her to the ground, covering her small body with his.

The terror that had leaped into her eyes, the uncontrollable trembling of her body would forever haunt him. That he had been protecting one of his closest friends and employer, Blade Navarone, hadn’t mattered. Then and now, Shane felt as if he had destroyed something precious.

At the time, he’d consoled himself that this was necessary; yet a part of him had been grateful that he’d had on night vision goggles and that they were in the deep shadows of the trees so she couldn’t clearly see his face. His search of her body for weapons was quick, methodical, detached … until his hand had passed over her small but perfectly formed breasts that fit his hand as if made just for him. Her sharp intake of breath had caused her breast to quiver, then push against his palm.

Now Shane’s hands fisted on the bed. He was disgusted with himself by the sudden tightening of his body, the hard, hungry arousal he couldn’t hide.

She’d trembled worse, her teeth chattering, then she’d started to fight once again.

His arm under her chin had effectively stopped her struggles. Words wouldn’t have helped calm her, not with his thick arousal pushing against the junction of her thighs. For both of them, he had to complete the task of searching for weapons as quickly as possible.

Thankfully she’d stilled and he’d hurriedly finished, then pulled her to her feet by her slim arm, keeping his back to the meager light coming from the house fifty feet away. He flashed a beam of a light into her frightened, heart-shaped face, then pushed her hand away when it automatically lifted to shield her eyes.

“Don’t move, and you won’t be hurt.”

Her eyes widened. Her soft lips trembled. Shane locked the curse behind his teeth. “Hurry.” He’d rasped the one word, wanting Corbin to finish feeding her driver’s license number into the hand-held computer Shane had devised for field work.

“Everything checks. She’s clean.”

“Who … who are you?” Her voice was cultured, with a hint of the deep South. He’d guessed an expensive private school had negated the accent until now…until he had made her realize how defenseless she was.

Shane wasn’t used to answering questions. He had no intention of starting now. “What are you doing here? And I want the truth the first time.” His voice was cold; he’d learned to be. Killers had no respect for race or gender or county.

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