Burning Intensity (15 page)
It would be a delicate balance. She needed to concentrate.
“Atchison,” Kent answered. “You with Greer?”
“Yes, we’re both here,” she replied. “What the fuck is going on? This was not in our plan, Phillipe. I wasn’t even close to having things set up. We weren’t going through with this until later tonight. I’d barely even entered the Gallery when all hell broke loose. You could have compromised me, blown this whole thing out of the water. I need some answers—”
“Cool it, things went exactly according to plan,” Phillipe snapped, cutting her off mid-sentence.
Chelsea cast a curious glance to David. He looked equally surprised and shook his head to indicate he had no idea what the man was talking about.
“I don’t know what kind of game you’re playing—” she began hotly, getting annoyed now.
Again he cut her off. “Come back to base, you and David both. We’ll discuss it there.”
Before she could get a word further, Kent hung up on her.
She pressed her lips together, annoyed, frustrated and concerned. Kent Phillipe was not some elegant gentleman with impeccable manners. But he had never spoken so briskly to her, or with such disdain, either. She worried that maybe they really were compromised.
“Last chance,” David reiterated. She shook her head firmly.
“No, I want to stand with you on this,” she repeated. “Not just to protect you, but I don’t run from slime like him. If a few harsh words scared me off I’d never recover my pride. Sometimes, I have so much fun with this sort of work I forget it’s not all sunshine and laughter, that batting my eyelashes and wiggling my arse isn’t always the answer.”
“I dunno,” mused David, a wicked gleam in his eye. “I bet if you wriggled your arse at me there’s very little it couldn’t answer for.”
She laughed, leaned over and pressed a kiss to his cheek.
“I’ll remember that,” she warned him.
David laid his hand on her thigh, the connection sizzling between them. “I hope you do.”
About the Author
Elizabeth Lapthorne has been writing professionally since 2002. She has a number of books released and is continually surprised by how much fun she has starting a new book and discovering new characters and situations that they put themselves in. She enjoys going to the gym (usually to chew over her latest problem scene), is rarely without a partially read book and has a weakness for chocolate.
Email:
[email protected]
Elizabeth
loves to hear from readers. You can find her contact information, website and author biography at
http://www.totallybound.com
.
Also by Elizabeth Lapthorne
The Agency: Flirting With Danger
The Agency: Passionate Immunity
The Agency: Passionate Vengeance
The Agency: Intimate Knowledge
The Agency: Unearthed Treasure
Totally Bound Publishing
