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He’d made love to her. And it’d been damn good. He could still smell her on him, could taste her, could feel the way her body responded to him over and over again.
His cock tightened and he had to push those thoughts away.
He’d screwed up and gotten involved.
Then again, if he hadn’t been there tonight, he might have been too late. Someone had punched through his alarm system and gotten to Elena. Jed knew how to wire an alarm, so this guy was an expert. If Jed hadn’t been there . . .
He didn’t want to think about what might have happened.
“Where are we going?” she asked.
“It’s not much farther.” He searched for the marker the general had told him would be there. Only another few miles or so.
There it was. A stone proclaiming a historical landmark. Just past that, a turnoff, barely noticeable amid the desolation of the landscape.
He made the right turn into the pitch-black darkness. The road bumped and he wished for his four-wheel-drive SUV.
“If I didn’t know better, I’d swear you were kidnapping me.”
He sensed the nervousness in her voice. She didn’t know him better. She didn’t know him at all.
He had to hold the wheel with both hands so he couldn’t reach out to reassure her. Instead, he shot her a quick smile. “It’s going to be okay. I promise.”
It was going to be okay. That was a promise he meant to keep.
Elena had no idea where she was, where they were going, or what had happened tonig
ht. It was all so quick.
She’d been asleep, warm and tucked in against Jed. And suddenly, he’d woken her and her entire world had changed.
Someone was in her house. Someone with a gun. Jed had taken over, there’d been an awful, ugly fight, and he’d had to shoot the intruder. Then he’d dragged her out of her house telling her that her life was in danger.
She didn’t know who to trust or what to believe anymore.
She wanted to believe Jed. He’d been her savior on more than one occasion.
Unless . . .
She glanced over at him as he maneuvered the ruts in the road, so confident, so amazingly handsome. She remembered his hands and his mouth on her body earlier tonight, and she warmed past the chill she couldn’t seem to shake.
But how much did she really know about him? And how odd was it that he showed up at the same time these things started happening to her? And how convenient that he was in security, and he’d been the one to install the alarm in her shop?
The alarm that hadn’t worked tonight.
She wrapped her arms around herself and drew her knees to her chest to ward off the goose bumps.
Had he set her up to trust him? Had this all been some elaborate scheme to put her in this place with him right now?
Just because a man was gorgeous and seemingly capable didn’t mean he couldn’t be a bad guy, a thief, a kidnapper or something even worse.
God, had she blindly trusted him and put herself in danger? Was she that stupid? She had no cell phone, no purse, no credit cards, nothing but the clothes on her back and the car Jed drove. They’d been in such a hurry to get out of the house—no, Jed had insisted they move fast; she hadn’t even thought about grabbing her phone or her purse.
Stupid move. Now she had no way to call for help. If she even needed to call for help.
She didn’t even know where they were. She’d been so lost in her own thoughts she hadn’t paid attention to landmarks. They’d gone south on the highway. But now he’d driven into some swampland and they were God only knows where.
Someplace remote. There were no houses, no hotels, no lights. Nothing but a barren wasteland, a remote, single-lane road with water on both sides.
