To Deceive Is To Love (Romantic suspense) (30 page)

“Look, I’m feeling bloody nervous. You accused me of hiding my feelings and treating love as a curse. Well, I don’t exactly feel cursed, but I do feel bewitched by you and now I’m about to shatter my macho image altogether.”

He suddenly knelt down on one knee and took hold of her hands, Ming darting off her lap at the intrusion.

“Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,

Guilty of dust and sin.

But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack

From my first entrance in,

Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning

If I lack’d anything.”

Chantelle smiled and replied, “
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,

Who made the eyes but I?”
Her gaze locked onto his. “George Herbert. So we both know a little poetry, words written by another.”

“I only wish I could put into words what I’m feeling now. You said if I loved you, I would want a future for us both. Well, I do. I want the whole conventional lot. Marriage, children or no children and just your mad cat. I want to date you properly, but most of all I want you.”

“David, are you asking me to marry you?”

“Well, yes. I don’t often go down on one knee and quote poetry.”

“Let me taste what love has to offer and then I might think about your proposal.”

“Why, you tease.” He swept her up in his arms, his lips upon hers, the answer wrapped up in the passion of her kiss.

THE END

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lynne King lives in Southeast England with her husband and several cats. A lover of rural living, wildlife, watching great movies and reading anything that moves or thrills her - Lynne also has a passion for writing and has done from an early age. Her short stories have been published in several UK magazines and on-line and cover many genres. As for her novels, she tends to write romantic suspense allowing her to fall in love with her characters and escape into their world. She hopes readers do likewise.
www.lynnekingauthor.co.uk

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RUN TO YOU

Published by Eternal Press:

Print ISBN: 978-1-61572-433-8

eBook ISBN: 978-1-61572-434-5

Transferring from her secretary job in London to the Manhattan branch, New York, Liz is running from a troubled past. A staged chance meeting in a bar with the charismatic Shaun O’Riley leads to blackmail, robbery and murder.

With no place to go, Liz turns to the only man whom she feels might be willing to believe in her innocence.

Jack Willis, a robbery/homicide detective has encountered Liz on several occasions - links to a suspected blackmailer, a witness to an assault and then he’s interviewing her at the scene of a bank heist. Jack doesn’t believe in coincidences so when the call comes through on his private line claiming her boyfriend has been murdered and she needs his help, Jack has a big problem on his hands. Does he succumb to the attraction he knows is mutual or cart her pretty ass off to jail?
 

Excerpt:

She stepped aside and allowed him into her apartment. He closed the door behind him.

“I’m sorry, but yesterday I felt you were about to tell me something before we were interrupted.”

She shook her head. “No, you thought wrong. There’s no more to tell.” For a mad moment she thought about motioning with her eyes or scribbling something down. Sanity reined her in. Shaun wouldn’t hesitate in pulling the trigger and Jack Willis would be dead.

“Well I thought I’d let you know, three more bodies have turned up. Someone is making sure to eliminate all potential liabilities.”

Her hand automatically covered her mouth. She could feel the bile rising and couldn’t trust herself not to be sick there and then. It was the same word that Shaun had used, a liability. That’s what she was now.

“Miss Saunders, I’m offering that hand now but this is your last chance. Have you anything to tell me.” He went to touch her arm but she backed away from the contact.

“I told you.” Her voice was raised and she found herself marching to the door and opening it up wide. “I think you should leave, Detective.” His silence was more unnerving, making her want to drag him out the door.

Finally he spoke. “Okay. One last thing, Shaun O’Riley, I believe he is a friend of yours. You no need to answer but information has come my way that he was blackmailing Mark Hunter.”

“I don’t know what you are talking about, please leave.” She glanced toward the bathroom door. It had opened wider. She even thought she could see the barrel of the gun against the doorframe.

Reluctantly he walked out the door; the familiar warm intensity of his gaze now replaced by suspicion and disappointment. Liz felt he now viewed her differently and not as a victim.

"
Run To You
was a very suspenseful and action-packed novel from the beginning that enthralled me from the moment....."

Reviewer:
Bec

THE ROMANCE STUDIO

5 HEARTS

"This was an extremely enjoyable and fast-paced story-tension-laden the whole way, both with the thriller tension of the chase and the unscrupulous heist criminals and the sexual tension between Jack and Liz."

THE ROMANCE REVIEWS

Reviewer:
CathyS

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