EXCERPT
It took Lucas Knight longer than it should have to realize he had a woman in his bed, but to be fair, he had a bitch of a hangover. Even worse than that, last night was a blur, prompting him to take quick stock. One, there was a bundle of sweet, soft curves against him. Two, his head was currently threatening to secede from the United States of Lucas. And three, his side hurt like … well, like he’d been shot.
It’d
been two weeks since he’d gotten caught in some crossfire on the job and he
hadn’t yet been cleared for more than light duty – something he’d obviously
managed to ignore last night given that he was palming a nice, warm, feminine
ass.
Think, man.
Straining
his brain, he remembered taking a pain med before going to O’Riley’s Pub to
meet up with some friends. A client had been there, someone he’d recently
helped save from a multi-million-dollar corporate espionage. The guy had
ordered shots to toast to Lucas and … shit. Knowing better than to mix pain
meds and alcohol, he’d hesitated, but everyone had been waiting on him, glasses
hoisted in the air. Thinking just one shot couldn’t hurt anything, he’d knocked
back the drink.
Clearly,
he’d been wrong, and it’d been enough to mess him up big time, something he
hadn’t been in years, not since his brother Josh had been killed. Shoving that
away for another time – or never -- Lucas cracked open one eye, but when his
retina was stabbed by a streak of sunlight glaring in through the window, he
immediately slammed it shut it again. Taking a deep breath, he told himself to
suck it up and opened both eyes this time, learning two additional facts.
He was
naked and completely uncovered.
And the
woman snugged up at his side was rolled up in his comforter like a burrito.
What.
The. Hell.
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website, www.jillshalvis.com, for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-
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New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website, www.jillshalvis.com, for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-
