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“You want more time with me?”Reaching for her hair, his fingers tightened in her tresses.“I need you to be clear on this, little girl, because it looks as though the police are planning on making an abrupt entry.”
From over her shoulder, he could see the muffled outline of the officers through the net curtains, and whatever equipment one was carrying didn’t bode well for his liberty.She peered behind her, trepidation etched into her features when she glanced his way.
“Then you need to go.”Her gaze darted around the room.“Find some clothes and get out of here.”
“I asked if you wanted more time.”He fisted her hair more roughly.Not enough to hurt, but just so her scalp lit up with sensation.“Answer me, Hannah.”
“God help me, but yes.”Despite her obvious panic, her lips twitched as the authority returned to his tone, “I’d like more time, Mr.Lawes, sir.I don’t want it to end like this.”
Joy exploded at the admission.She hadn’t told him she loved him, but he understood her puzzlement.It was hard enough falling for the woman he’d captured.He couldn’t imagine how she might be feeling, but her reluctance to run for the door and beg for the police’s attention conveyed her confusion.Hannah was clearly torn, and that offered him the one thing he needed to snap back into action.
It gave him hope.
“Okay.”His fingers relaxed as he stepped forward and kissed her forehead.“Listen closely, Hannah.This is how things are going to go.”
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Red Herring
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HANNAH’S HEART HAMMEREDas the front door was rammed from the outside, the noise reverberating like a thunderbolt beyond the small hallway separating her from the intruders.Time and time again, the shrill noise resounded, suggesting the front door was sustaining a heavy battering and wouldn’t last much longer.
She turned her face toward the kitchen, knowing that was where the back door was located and where Lawes had slipped away.Her thoughts returned to the tense minutes that had passed since she’d been crazy enough to convey her confused feelings for her captor.
‘This is how things are going to go.’His words echoed in her head, blocking out the sounds of the splintering wood.‘I’m going to gag you and bind you back into the dental chair before I get dressed and make my exit.’
Her head had fogged at his assertion, fear rising at his conclusion, even though she understood its logic.She needed to be an authentic victim when the police dashed through the door, and the fastest way to express that was through the binds, but she had had a hundred questions, for herself as much as him.
Why had she asked for more time with Lawes, for God’s sake?He’d proven what little respect he had for her by taking her a second time, yet she couldn’t argue with his analysis.Things had been different since he’d bound her in the bathroom.
Better.
He was still a bastard, but there was care in his caresses, an attention to detail she didn’t remember from the first time, and she’d enjoyed that devotion as much as the highs of the orgasms he’d provoked.That version of him was enticing.
Lawes was an anomaly.
