âYou can fight it if you want, but we will make love.â
Theo didnât seem able to resist any longer. He pulled Sadie against him, crushing her mouth beneath his. After a few moments his hands found the edge of her sweatshirt and slipped beneath it. âI promised myself that I wasnât going to touch you again tonight.â
Sadie nipped his ear playfully. âAh, but I promised myself that Iâd definitely be touching you.â
âI like your promise better.â He laughed.
âYou know, if your conscience is bothering you, you could just let me do the touching,â she quipped.
âGood idea.â His hands found her breasts and she arched towards him. âIâll hold you to it next time.â Then he kissed her again.
Desperation built immediately. She could feel his hunger when his heart thundered against her palm, taste it when his tongue aggressively met hers. The heat of his response fuelled her own. Would the pleasure he gave her always be this sharp? This necessary?
He dragged his mouth away. âWhy do you have to look so damn sexy in my sweatshirt?â
âYou could always take it offâ¦â
âBrilliant suggestion.â He held her tight against him as his breathing slowed. âIf I had any blood left â in my brain, that is â Iâd have thought of itâ¦â
CARA SUMMERS
Award-winning author Cara Summers loves creating memorable characters. And for her, the best thing about writing for Mills & Boon>® Blaze>® is that the series allows her to bring to life strong women and seriously sexy men â like the Angelis brothers. âTheyâre smart, theyâre kind, theyâre hot and they each have a great sense of humour. Whatâs not to like?â She hopes that her readers have as much fun reading about Kit, Nik and Theo as she had writing about them. When Cara isnât busy with her characters, she spends time with her students at Syracuse University, New York and travels south as often as she can to play with her grandchildren.
Dear Reader,
Writing about TALL, DARKâ¦AND DANGEROUSLY HOT! men has been a challenge and a delight! I really hate to see it come to an end. Kit may have been my first love and Nik my favourite, but I have to admit that itâs Theo who will remain in my mind and heart the longest.
In the courtroom hotshot defence lawyer Theo Angelis has a winning reputation, but outside the courtroom heâs lost his edge. An incident with a stalker has him doubting his instincts. Heâs even stopped dating! So the last thing he needs right now is a damsel in distress â especially one as sexy as fellow lawyer Sadie Oliver.
Sadieâs in big trouble. Her sister has disappeared, her brother is seriously injured and the prime suspect in a murderâ¦and Sadieâs libido has just shot into overdrive, thanks to Theo Angelis. Professionally, Sadie needs Theoâs help to find her sister and prove her brotherâs innocence. Personally, however, she has other needs sheâd like Theo to take care ofâ¦
I hope youâll come along for the ride as Theo and Sadie discover just what the Fates have in store for them. And enjoyed meeting the other Angelis brothers in The PI (May) and The Cop (June).
For more information about the Angelis brothers and their family, including excerpts from all three books, visitwww.carasummers.com.
Happy reading!
Cara Summers
To my son Kevin. Thanks for your advice (which I donât always take), your unfailing support and your pride in my work. You make the writing life a bit easier. Thanks, too, for being my biggest fan! I love you.
Friday, August 28thâEvening
TWILIGHT WAS ONE OF THOSE special times of the day when Cassandra Angelisâ power to see into the future sharpened; this evening she needed all the help she could get. A sense of urgency propelled her along the garden path until she caught her first glimpse of the sun still hanging above the Pacific. Only the faintest shades of pink and blue streaked the sky. So there was still time.
Deliberately slowing her pace, Cass let the scent of the flowers and the songs of insects and birds fill her senses. It wouldnât do any good to rush. She knew from experience that she couldnât force her visions. She had to just let them come.
Psychic abilities ran strong in her family and sheâd never denied or run away from her special gift. Over the years, sheâd established a reputation as a psychic in the San Francisco area.
This evening, Cass had no client. Sheâd known for almost a month that this weekend would be a pivotal one in the lives of her family members, but it hadnât been until midnight and again this morning at dawn that her feelings had begun to clarify into visions. She now knew the Fates would bring two of her nephews, Kit and Nik, mortal danger. And love, if they chose to open their hearts to it.
She paused near a patch of white flowers. The delicate blossoms always reminded her of the wildflowers that grew near the seashore in Greece where sheâd first met her husband, Demetrius. She could still recall that moment of knowing that there was no one else, would never be anyone else, for her.