Stone Cold Heart (11 page)
She snorted. "I'm sure."
Her abrasive attitude was starting to drill into the haze of attraction he had running through him. "Where am I headed?"
"Phillipines," Jack clipped out. "Sulu, specifically."
Great. He'd had plenty of experience in country. Not his favorite as the political climate sucked almost as bad as the weather this time of year. Monsoon season was just about over, but the weather didn't always conform to the timetables put out by man. Not to mention the bugs. He shuddered. But he would deal. "Cargo?"
"School supplies," Jack replied.
"Piece of cake." Riley grinned, exposed his white teeth and tried to put her at ease. But he got lost in the magnetism she exuded like a force field even as he noted peripherally the angry vibe that radiated from her.
But angry babe wasn't put at ease. If anything, she stiffened even further, as her pale eyes shot sparks at him. "
I
am going to the Philippines. I am not so sure about you."
But Riley had stopped listening at
I
.
"Wait, what?" His eyebrows rose and he snapped his head toward Jack. He straightened from his nonchalant slouch and snatched his hands from his pockets. "You can't possibly expect me to take her," he gestured, careful to keep his voice low-key and well-modulated. "To Sulu Island."
A rosy flush of annoyance spread across her high delicate cheekbones as she pursed her pale pink lips and her body vibrated with a fine tension.
"Exactly," Di said. She dismissed Riley with a disdainful sweep of her lashes and trained her gaze on Jack. "Who else do you have?"
Books by Lisa Hughey
Black Cipher Files Romantic Suspense
The Encounter, A Prequel to Blowback
Blowback
Betrayals
Zeke & Sunshine's book, coming Winter 2013
The Seven
Archangel Rafe
Archangel Zach, coming Spring 2014
Snow Creek Christmas Anthology
One Silent Night
Family Stone Romantic Suspense
Stone Cold Zero, (Jess, Family Stone #1)
Carved in Stone (Connor, Family Stone #2)
Heart of Stone (Riley, Family Stone #3)
Still the One (Jack, Family Stone #4) coming soon!!
About Lisa
Lisa Hughey has been writing romance since the fourth grade, which was also about the time she began her love affair with spies. Harriet and Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys later gave way to James Bond and Lara Croft and Jason Bourne. Exploring the complex nature of a profession that requires subterfuge and lies fascinates her. She loves combining her two passions into fiction. As evidenced by her Black Cipher Files series.
Archangel Rafe was her first foray into the paranormal but after spending time in the Angelic Realm, it won't be her last. At their heart, the Seven novels are about the dynamics of family relationships. But the really hot Archangels don't hurt.
And recently she's been immersed in the Stone Family novellas, four stories about a blended family of brothers and sister who have a lot more in common than they realize. But of course she couldn't just write about family and romance. There are complex plots, bad guys, and suspense too.
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