Dangerous Place For Love by Sam Crescent Read Free Book Online

aching head. She took a sip of the dark liquid and wished she’d
stuck with water. The sweet brew tasted disgusting. She tossed it
down the drain and went to the fridge, uncapping a bottle of
water.
    Resting her head in her hands, she
wondered what she was going to do. Work would soon be out of the
question. She could only call the agent’s number in case of an
emergency and this wasn’t much of an emergency. According to the
reports, she’d taken the pills at the hospital before she’d been
discharged.
    A knock at the door distracted her
from the thoughts whirling round her brain.
    “ Who is it?”
    “ Delivery guy.” Frowning,
Kelly opened the door and screamed.
    Erik Coldwell stood on her doorstop
looking cocky, arrogant and in a lot of pain.
    “ What are you doing here?”
she asked.
    “ Nice way to say you’ve
missed me.” Kelly let him into the house and glanced out to make
sure none of her nosy neighbours would see.
    “ You shouldn’t be here,”
she whispered even as her heart soared. Erik was here, in her
house.
    “ I couldn’t stay away.” He
coughed and Kelly led him to her small two-seater sofa.
    “ What do you
mean?”
    “ I know I’m not supposed to
be here and you’ll probably hate me for the rest of my life.
Pointing the gun at you was the biggest mistake of my life and I’m
so sorry to have hurt you, baby. How is your shoulder?”
    He reached out and touched the tender
spot.
    “ My shoulder was merely a
scratch. I don’t understand. What are you doing here?” Kelly didn’t
want to get her hopes up. More than anything she wanted to fling
herself into his arms but she couldn’t bring herself to do
it.
    “ I had to see you. The time
we spent on the island meant more to me than anything. I can’t go
on living until I tell you how I feel. In fact, if you hate me,
then as soon as I tell you, you can kick me out. But I couldn’t go
another day without looking in your sweet eyes and saying to you, I
love you.” He stroked her cheek and her breath caught in her
throat.
    “ How can you love me?” The
insecurity coming back to play havoc with her mind.
    Erik took her hand and laid it across
his heart. “This beats for you and you alone. I can’t go another
day without you not knowing how I feel.”
    Kelly reached over and kissed him on
the lips. A sign from the big man upstairs. In her hour of need,
the man she loved had come for her.
    “ I take it I’m not in any
kind of trouble, Amanda Lynne?” he teased as he kissed her
back.
    “ I didn’t get to pick my
name. Strange as it is.”
    “ You’ll always be Kelly
O’Donald to me. The daughter of a drug cartel, a person who asks
endless questions and the woman who owns my heart.”
    Kelly responded to his kiss, her heart
racing. Her arms circled his neck to bring him closer. The few
weeks they’d been apart had been more like a life time.
    “ What’s going to happen
now?” she asked.
    “ Well, I think I need to
move a little more furniture in here and then I must warn you I
sleep on the left side of the bed.”
    “ Not about us. This isn’t
allowed to work.”
    “ Screw the people who say
it shouldn’t. I’ve spent a great deal of my time prepared to take a
bullet. Just consider this my next full-time position. Keeping a
wanted daughter protected.”
    Kelly moaned as he leaned her back on
the sofa. She reclined as he worked the top button of her blouse
open.
    “ Stop. Stop. I’ve got
something to tell you.” Kelly held his hand to stop him working her
blouse off.
    “ What?”
    “ We’re going to have a
baby,” she blurted out.
    “ Seriously?”
    “ Yes, I went to the doctor
today and I’m pregnant.”
    Erik’s face went from serious to
smiling. “I’m going to be a dad?”
    Kelly nodded her eyes forming
tears.
    “ You’re an amazing
woman.”
    Erik kissed her and for the remainder
of the day he kept her on her back, making love to her.
    He promised to settle things at work.
No longer could he live his life