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“I don’t think—”
“I asked you to stop the car, damn it!” he bit out from between clenched teeth.
Persy gave him a brief glance. “Didn’t you see this earlier this morning when you were driven into London?”
He shook his head. “The other driver went a different route. No doubt under my brothers’ instruction,” he added wryly.
Persy wished she’d thought to do the same thing when she saw how pale Casper’s cheeks had become. It really couldn’t be good for him to linger at the place where he had almost been killed only a week ago.
“Please,” he added gruffly.
Persy couldn’t resist that plea. Instead, she checked in the driving mirror for the vehicle following them, before switching on the indicator and slowing the SUV to pull over and roll the vehicle to stop at the side of the road. Her partner Jeff, driving the SUV following them, did the same.
“I don’t—” She broke off with an impatient huff as Casper ignored her to push open the passenger door. He stepped down from the vehicle and walked over to stand beside where the hedge had been completely flattened.
Persy stepped down from the SUV and signaled to Jeff to stay put before she took a moment to simply look at Casper unobserved.
There was no escaping the fact he was one of the handsomest men she had ever met, even with those scratches and bruises on his face. She also knew from the men she’d worked with the past four months that Casper was the lighthearted and charming Kingston brother everyone got along with.
But that wasn’t who he was today as he stared grimly at the site of his accident.
No doubt he was considering what a lucky escape he’d had.
Perhaps he was also wondering who could possibly have wanted to harm, perhaps even kill, him.
CHAPTER FIVE
Casper could honestly say he had never even considered his own mortality before a week ago.
He knew his brothers and Adam often put themselves in harm’s way, and occasionally, Casper did the same when his skill set was needed out in the field. An example of that was the way they had all been caught on the edge of a bomb blast the previous year.
But Casper had never even come close to dying in the immediate way he had in this exact spot a week ago.
It was a complete leveler to actually see the destruction his car had caused as it hurtled through the hedge before rolling over and over down the slope beyond.
“Pretty impressive.”
Casper glanced at the beautiful woman now standing beside him. “Impressive, hm?” he returned dryly.
She shrugged. “I’m not sure what else to call it.”
The tension eased a little from his shoulders as he chuckled wryly. “I would have tried harder if I’d known I was going to be given marks out of ten for my performance.”
“I wasn’t judging your performance,” she snapped at the same time a delicate blush began to slowly creep into her pale cheeks.
Casper eyed her speculatively as he turned to fully face her. “I’d be more than happy to give you a…personal demonstration.”
“I’d rather you didn’t,” she scorned.
His brows rose. “Why not?”
“Because this is neither the time nor the place—”
Casper ensured Persephone wasn’t able to finish that sentence as his lips pressed against hers and his arms moved about the slenderness of her waist to pull her toward him.
Her lips were as soft and pillowy as he’d thought they would be. They also tasted delicious as he deepened the kiss by slipping his tongue into the heat of her mouth to entangle it with hers.
Casper also loved the way their almost matching heights meant that Persephone’s hands rested on his shoulders, her breasts were pressed against his chest, and the meeting of their hip bones meant that his erection was nestled against the warm mound between her thighs.
