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| Angie Meyers is the red-head on the upper right. Seems to love life, and her kid. if only the man she loves would fall in line and nasty criminals stop threatening her family. Well, she's the type of woman who will definitely take matters into her own hands. After all, she needs to make sure her future follows her long-term plans. |
EXCERPT:
“I. Don’t. Do. Christmas.”
Angie resisted the impulse to argue.
Their relationship had been on his terms for years, and for a very good reason.
But this time Dr. Matthias Alejandro Martinez was just being stubborn.
And she still had four months to strategize.
To convince him how important it was to spend Christmas at the ranch with her
and their son. Until now, she’d never argued, never asked for anything,
believed she had no choice but to go along with him because that’s what you did
when you were in love with a heart-stoppingly gorgeous man who didn’t exist in
the real world.
“Are we good here?”
Oh, not by a long shot, pal. “You know I
have to be gone, like, ten minutes ago.”
He reached out with the sureness of an
old lover and ran a fingertip along her jawbone, cupped her chin. “Will you
kiss me goodbye?”
He always asked, never took. And,
dammit, she couldn’t look into those serious blue eyes and deny the man
anything. He’d been making her crazy for years, so why would it change now? She
lifted to her tiptoes, and slid her fingers into the thick, unruly hair
brushing the back of his white collar. “I hate you,” she said and dragged his
mouth down to hers.
“I know.” Hands on her butt, he lifted
her off her feet, and just when she was afraid the top of her head was going to
blow off, the vibration of his cell made her groan.
“You programmed that, didn’t you?”
He set her down with a sexy chuckle and
slipped on heavy, black-rimmed glasses to check the display. “I have to take
this.”
“No worries. I need to be gone anyway.”
Before she could turn away, he caught
her hand, ran his teeth across the knuckles, then put the phone on speaker.
“Martinez, stand by.”
Angie closed the door softly behind her
and made it halfway to the stairwell before she stopped. She could go back,
make him understand how important Christmas was for her, why she was making
plans in September. She gave her head a shake. No. And no point standing here
looking like an idiot, either. Every inch of this place was on video
monitor…except for the offices, washrooms and private suites. ETCETERA
acknowledged few boundaries, but certain privacies were respected.
By the time she traversed a complex
network of tunnels and reached the secure warehouse where her ride was stashed,
she’d managed—as always—to put things in perspective. She loved a man who
couldn’t follow the regular rules of relationships. A man who lived outside
societal norms, underground—literally—and she was one of the few people who
even knew he was alive.
She pressed her hand against the black surface
of the biometric palm reader and waited until the door of the man trap opened.
Once inside, she stared into the retina scanner until it beeped, then waited
beside her reflection on the wall of one-way glass.
She wasn’t one to primp in front of a mirror,
but she did run her fingers through her short hair to straighten what she called a man-cut—but Matt called
sexy when he had his mouth on her sensitive neck.
Suddenly overwarm, she undid the top button of
her flight suit, pushed up the sleeves, and sighed with relief when the lock
finally snicked open.
She nodded to the guard on duty. “I’ll have
the machine out of here in five.”
“Need help?”
“Thanks, but I’ve got it.” She strode to the
small but powerful black helicopter—nicknamed the Bug—and pushed buttons on the
portable landing mat where it was perched. She was grateful to be back
functioning in a way that made sense. Every action had a purpose and a
consequence. Order mattered. Machines and flight she understood, but people
confused the hell out of her.
The door lifted and the craft slid out into
the bright light of day, where she went through the well-ordered steps,
beginning with a walk-around, then climbing in to deal with switches, buttons,
gauges and readings. Like a familiar dance, she sailed through the steps, and
once the rotor RPMs were in the green, lifted off and navigated the crowded
urban airspace.
Not until reaching a comfortable cruising
altitude did she allow herself to tune back in to her personal life. To
Matthias and the Christmas Dilemma.
One disadvantage of loving a man with a
brilliant mind was the sound reasoning for his decisions. But Angie never
backed away from a challenge. Ever. And losing gracefully was something she’d
never been very good at.
Fortunately, the flight was long, and by the
time her corner of NE Texas came into sight, she had a plan.
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| Out on April 30, 2016 |
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Author Bio:
Kathryn Jane writes the
popular Intrepid Women Series—novels filled with mystery, suspense, adventure,
psychic abilities, and romance. Think MacGyver, I Love Lucy, Criminal Minds,
the Mentalist, and James Bond.
Keep in touch with the author:
Website: http://kathrynjane.com/
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