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When she saw Bryson standing at the Humvee, she immediately knew by the set of his shoulders that he was ticked off. She reached the vehicle and pointed to the driver’s door, indicating he should drive.
Once both their doors slammed, they turned to each other.
“What the hell, Alexia? Did you know that was going to happen?” he burst out.
Her brows shot up. “How would I know they were going to have another file I’ve never seen?”
He stared at her for a long heartbeat. “File?”
“Yes. Didn’t they show it to you too?”
“Hell no—they asked about my whereabouts the night Kelsey was killed!”
She felt the blood drain from her face, leaving it tingling. “You can’t be serious. Why would they bring you in now, after all this time? And that’s ridiculous. They could get that information. If they looked into your background, they’d know you weren’t even in the country!”
“I don’t know. Maybe because you put the idea in their heads that I was involved?” His face mottled red with rage.
Her stomach plummeted like the weight of a boulder sat inside it.
“Bryson, you can’t believe I’m responsible for that questioning. Even though I kind of suspected you took out the boyfriend, I’ve changed my mind.”
He gave her a withering look.
She latched on to his arm. His focus intensified on her. “I don’t believe that now. Not after spending these past two days with you and seeing your face after you’d been in that house. I believe you, Bryson.”
His uncompromising gaze sent chills through her.
“Please.” She cupped his jaw. “You have to believe me. I never would have slept with you if I believed you could cause somebody undue harm.”
His eyelids closed, cutting off that intense glint of pain. He bowed his head for a long moment. When he looked at her again, her chest burned at the look he gave her.
“Thank you for that, Alexia. I—” He broke off in a second of struggle. “I wouldn’t be here right now if I had anything to hide.”
“I know that.” She chafed her fingertips lightly over his stubbled jaw.
His lips firmed with anger. “That department is going to be under fire once I get finished reporting them to my superiors. I’m pretty sure Homeland Security isn’t going to look kindly on a bunch of Podunk self-proclaimed detectives accusing one of their special operators of murder.”
She nodded. “You have a right to be pissed.” Even at her. She’d caused him stress and probably a measure of pain as well.
He acknowledged her statement with a small nod.
“Do you want to go back to your base? Now that I know there’s more evidence that’s never been seen by anybody in my office, the case is on hold until I analyze the information. I don’t need your assistance to do that. Besides, you’ve done more than enough and—”
He grabbed her, yanked her halfway over the console and kissed her.
Hard.
With all the fury and frustration—and oh god, theneed—that sent her body into overdrive. Crying out, she sank her fingers into his hair and dragged him closer for another kiss and then another until she was so hot and bothered that she needed to find a place to be alone with him or die.
Breaking the kiss, he held her stare. “I think we should stay in town an extra day. You know,” he nuzzled her nose with his, “to make sure we getallthe files we need.”
She latched on to his suggestion with a little bounce of excitement. Nodding enthusiastically, she nuzzled him back. “We definitely need to stay here another night. We need to keep on these guys, make sure they do their jobs and deliver that file to us.”
“Mm-hm.”
Her heart gave a small flip at his agreement. He might have only muttered two syllables, but what she heard wasmuchmore.
Neither of them were ready for their time together to end.
