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would have what she had denied every other man at that club, and
she knew it. In the process, he might very well steal her heart. She couldn’t
afford to let any man touch her heart.
    She breathed out wearily. She was
tired. Sleep was getting harder and harder to attain and she knew she was going
to deal with the exhaustion claiming her soon. Another trip to The Club was out
of the question. After the last episode with Jared she had a feeling the relief
she had found there would be nonexistent now.
    “Fine,” she finally muttered,
knowing she was making a mistake, feeling it so deep in her soul that it
reverberated through her body. “We leave tonight. Anything else?”
    Richard’s eyes narrowed
thoughtfully.
    “Is there something you’re not
telling me, Kimberly?” he finally asked. “Something that could affect this
assignment?”
    Yeah, she wanted to fuck the client
so damned bad that even now, her vagina wept with the hunger of it.
    “No,” she answered instead. “Other
than the suspicion that Senator Madison is playing yet another of his games, I
can’t think of anything.”
    “Would Jared go along with it?” She
could see the automatic need to protect her in his eyes. Richard and his wife
had been lifesavers in the past few years, but as she had told him before,
there was nothing anyone could do to save her from her relationship with her
father.
    “I doubt Jared is involved in any
scheme he would hatch up.” She finally shook her head at the question. “I don’t
even think his mother knows all the details. The Senator wouldn’t want to ruin
his good image.” It was all she could do not to sneer in contempt.
    “Even I don’t know all the
details,” he grumped. “Does anyone?”
    She smiled mockingly. “The Senator
and myself, and as far as I’m concerned, that’s two too many.”
    Richard’s gaze was compassionate,
but it did little to still the demons raging within her.
    “I would pull you out of this if I
could,” he told her softly. “You know I would Kimberly. But it’s not my call.”
    She nodded bleakly. “I know
Richard. Don’t worry, I won’t mess this up. We’ll leave tonight.”
    He nodded slowly. “I’ll keep in
touch with any new developments. As I said, at this point, the threat is only
suspected based on intel coming through Homeland Defense. Your father’s a dirty
son of a bitch, Kimberly, but he’s working wonders in Washington in national
defense. That makes him a target, and it makes you and Jared a target. You
can’t get away from that.”
    “There are a lot of things I can’t
seem to get away from,” she bit out fiercely. “Doesn’t mean I have to like any
of it… I’ll get ready to leave now, if there’s nothing else.”
    Richard sighed heavily. “No,
there’s nothing else, Kimberly.”
    She nodded shortly and turned and
left the room. She managed to hide the fine tremble in her body until she
reached her jeep, but as her fingers wrapped around the steering wheel, she
felt the small shudders that reverberated inside her.
    Jared. She stifled a moan as she
laid her head against the wheel for long seconds and fought for her composure.
For some reason, it seemed fate was out to destroy her. She could be strong
away from him, but how the hell was she supposed to hide the hunger that ate at
her soul for him, if she was forced into such proximity with him? And why was
she suddenly wondering if the fight she was embroiled in with her father was
even worth losing out on so much as a minute in Jared’s arms?
* * * * *
    Jared stood on the back porch of
his home staring into the twilight of a Virginia summer evening. He remembered,
long ago, watching his father stand here as he debated some problem, staring
into the surrounding forest with a frown on his dark brow as though the answers
he sought were to be found there.
    “The fact of the matter is, it’s
Kimberly’s life in jeopardy, Jared,” his mother continued to speak behind him.
“I’ve managed to