Total pages in book: 158
Estimated words: 145729 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 729(@200wpm)___ 583(@250wpm)___ 486(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 145729 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 729(@200wpm)___ 583(@250wpm)___ 486(@300wpm)
“Are you following me?”
They exchanged a glance over her head, and then Kai nodded. “Yep.”
“Why? You do know I’m perfectly capable of finding my way from point A to point B without help. I also, just to make you feel better, have GPS. If I break down, or get a flat, I’m fairly well-versed in knowing how to fix things. I keep the tank filled. It’s very sweet of you to worry, but I can handle things all by myself.”
“Gotta talk to the boss, Sonia,” Gray said. “He gives the orders, we just follow them.”
She nodded. She didn’t like bodyguards. She’d had that. Those guards hadn’t been there for her protection, they’d been there to make certain she didn’t get away. She should have been suspicious when Sasha and Nikita had sent her off to the mall with just a driver. Not once had that ever happened before.
I was suspicious. Gatita was smug.
You smelled conspiracy.
That too. Now there was the impression of amusement.
Why did Joshua send them after me?
To make certain no one hurts you.
Is that what his leopard told you? Gatita was such a little hussy. Every night she wanted to go running with her mate, and if Sonia was too tired from work, she sulked, so Sonia made certain she was never that tired.
Gatita settled down again. Yes. But I talked to their leopards as well. I don’t leave your protection to chance. Not anymore.
That shocked Sonia. She had no idea the other leopards communicated with one another. She also hadn’t realized that Gatita blamed herself for what had happened.
That wasn’t your fault. None of it was your fault. She waved at the two men and went into the house. You know that, don’t you? You hadn’t even emerged. What made you come to the surface when you hadn’t had a heat?
I sensed a conspiracy. I sensed you were in danger. I began to listen whenever you were around those people. They aren’t nice.
No, they aren’t, Sonia conceded. I got us into that, not you. You saved us.
I will always save you, even from my mate.
Unexpectedly, there was burning behind her eyes. She loved her leopard.
I love you too. Now go fight with your man the way you always do. You won’t win, but he likes the argument.
He does not.
He thinks you’re very sexy when you argue with him.
Oh my God. How could you possibly know that? Wait, don’t tell me. Shadow told you.
Sonia stomped up the stairs to the first small bedroom, which would be the nursery. Joshua was adamant that they restore the nursery. He said they would need it. She always ignored those statements. She had no way to respond. She wasn’t going to fantasize any more than she already did.
She walked through the master bedroom and looked around. She’d never gone in Joshua’s room before. It was huge, almost as large as her entire second story. The front and back windows were glass. She looked closely and thought maybe it was bulletproof glass. If so, Rafe Cordeau had spent a fortune on it. The French doors were similar to the ones in her home, but again, these were custom-made. The upper verandah stretched wide and long, giving Joshua a good view of the swamp and river. Tree branches led straight to the wrought iron railing, making it easy for a leopard to make the jump from the tree to the house.
Joshua’s bed was made and his clothes put away neatly. The room looked lived-in, but clean. Very clean. She hadn’t seen a maid go in other than once. That time, the woman had come out with sheets, presumably to wash them. Sonia ran her hand over the duvet spread across his bed. It was masculine, a black and red Asian theme. She liked it.
His scent was all over the room, making it difficult not to breathe him in. She didn’t want to be surrounded by him, but it was impossible not to be. She forced herself to keep walking right on through to his office. She knocked on the doorjamb, although the door was open.
“Joshua?” She poked her head in, half expecting him to be angry with her for disturbing him at work. Sasha would have been angry. Now she knew why. He wouldn’t have wanted her to know his businesses weren’t legitimate.
Joshua was frowning at his computer, his shaggy blond hair falling across his forehead, making him look more like a surfer than a businessman. His head came up; the frown was gone and his smile spread light across his face. “Sonia.” He jumped up. “Come in, baby. What a surprise. You’ve never come near my private lair.”
Her heart jumped at his words. Just looking at him sent that liquid heat dampening her lacy little boy shorts, the ones she wore comfortably under her jeans. Her nipples burned and ached, pushing against the lacy bra. She wore a simple T-shirt, but it was tight and she knew not only would he see her arousal, but since he was leopard, he would smell it.