Bring the Heat

  ‘I allowed a moment of temporary madness, Jasper. Don’t hold your breath that it’ll happen again.’

  She started to walk away. I shrugged on my jacket and followed. ‘Wren.’

  She paused without turning.

  I stepped around to face her. ‘I still want to know where your brother is. This time I’m not taking no for an answer.’

  The eyes she lifted to mine were haunted, filled with the tension I’d sensed in her all evening. For a handful of seconds, she pressed her lips together. Then her gaze shifted away from mine. ‘I don’t know.’

  Instinct suggested she wasn’t lying. ‘When was the last time you heard from him?’

  A shaft of pain crossed her flawless features. ‘My mother spoke to him a week ago.’

  Her mother. Not her. Was that the reason for the tension between them?

  ‘I need to reach him, Wren.’

  Her face tightened. ‘Is that why you followed me here? To pump me for information?’

  I bit back my irritation. ‘We both know what just happened has been a long time coming, pun intended. Don’t demean it.’

  Her eyes flickered and I could’ve sworn she blushed. Slightly mollified, I trailed my knuckles over her warm cheek. ‘Doesn’t change the fact that I still need to hear from Perry, though.’ I dropped my hand. ‘When you do get in touch with him, tell him it’s in his interest to contact me, asap.’ Knowing I needed to leave before I gave in to the urge to re-enact that heady episode again, I stepped away.

  ‘That sounds like a threat,’ she challenged.

  I turned back to the woman I intended to have, again and again, in the very near future, and smiled. ‘You can see it as such if you want. It’s a simple statement that says I’m done playing games. He’s fucking around with something important to me. Sooner or later, he’s going to have to answer to me. How much mercy I show him is entirely up to him.’

  Copyright © 2021 by Zara Cox

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  ISBN-13: 9780369702487

  Bring the Heat

  Copyright © 2021 by Terra Rogerson

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