Page 69 of Lethal Game

Chapter Fourteen

Unfortunately, herheart wasn’t listening to her head. “I thought I’d lost you too.” Her voice quivered.

He pulled back to look into her eyes, took her shoulders in his hands and gave her a little shake. “Don’t you ever do that again.”

Shock made her sputter, “Excuse me?” Had he lost his mind?

His grip on her tightened and he snarled, “You promised you’d go straight to the lab if we got separated.”

“River was with me, sort of, so that changed the circumstances.”

“The hell it did.”

“I was safe!”

“Safe?” he asked incredulously. “You’re the most dangerous woman I know.”

“What does that—”

She couldn’t finish because he was kissing her again.

She kissed him back just as fiercely, anger burning away the last of the cold chill of the thought of Con caught in the fire.

Someone pounded on the door.

Con wrenched his head away and yelled, “What?”

“Smoke is back and he’s got a story to tell,” said a voice through the door.

River.

Con stared into her eyes with a fierce expression. “We’re not done talking.”

“We did very little talking in the first place,” she muttered.

He sent her one last glare then opened the door and stalked down the hall toward Eugene’s desk.

Sophia trailed along behind, rubbing her arm where he’d held on to her. She wasn’t sure she wanted to see the size of the bruise growing there.

Eugene, River, Smoke, and Colonel Maximillian stood next to Eugene’s desk. The first three were armed, and Maz looked angry enough to kill with a look. Smoke had a blood trail down the left side of his face from his temple to his chin. River was trying to clean it up, but Smoke kept batting him away.

“Are you both uninjured?” the colonel asked, though his gaze was on Sophia.

“We’re fine,” Con replied.

Sophia frowned at him. “Yes, we’re okay.”

Con clenched his jaw so tightly she was surprised his teeth hadn’t cracked.

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