Page 1 of The Chase
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He’d seduced a virgin.Kurtland Chase knew he’d made the biggest mistake of his life when he’d looked down into her wet hazel eyes and felt himself falling.
He hadn’t meant to feel this way forher.
Far from it.
He’d just…intended to end up right where they were, but with clothes on and maybe a few hot kisses between them, and then he’d send her on her way. Like he had every night this week before. He’d known he was playing with fire—he just hadn’t been able to fight it.
Gene Hiller’s baby sister.Damn it.
He should have kept his hands off.
The instant he’d touched her tonight, he should have known he wouldn’t be able to stop. She’d been tempting him for two damned weeks. Drawing him in. Capturing him heart and soul. The woman was beyond dangerous.
Greer just did something to him somehow. Made him forget every plan he’d ever had and just focus onher.Being with her. Even if that meant he did something stupid.
Thishad been incredibly stupid.
Now she was in his arms, and he didn’t want to let her go. Ever.
Nothing had ever terrified him more.
“You need to leave.” He jerked away from her as if she had just scorched him to his soul. And she had. “Right now.”
Confusion filled her beautiful face. “What…why?”
“Because this is not something I want to ever happen again,” he said, far too sharply. As he watched, a look ofpainwent across her face. Realization. Then…betrayal. And one thin arm slid over her chest to cover herself. From his gaze.
He felt like…a monster. Like a marauder of old, making off with the enemy chieftain’s precious virgin daughter. Debauching her. Well, he’d definitely done that.
Hell, what had hedone? He shouldn’t have said that. Not like that. “Greer?—"
He had been her first. He hadn’t believed her whispered words that he would be her first. But he had been. He had been a bit too rough, too hungry. He had wanted her too much. Hell, he hoped he hadn’t physically hurt her. “Get dressed. I’m going to drive you home. We’ll talk…in the morning, or something.”
Kurt rolled to one side, to put some distance between them. He had to take her home. Now. Tell her he was sorry, that he hadn’t meant to let things go as far as they had. He had had no intention of anythingpermanentwith a damned Hiller.
It wouldn’t ever have a chance of lasting. Not with…what he knew.
Not after what Gene Hiller had taken from him. Not with how complicated that situation was, and was going to get real soon. He just wasn’t.
He hadn’t meant to dothis.
He’d just been…hell, he’d been using her for information about her older brother. Learning about her family. Even that had been skirting the edge of how Kurt normally operated.Playing her up a bit to get past that weird wall the Hillers had about protecting each other. It had just gotten out of hand.
He’d started off wanting information and ended up becoming…fascinated. No woman had fascinated as much as this one.
He’d felt guilty for that for the last two weeks, but…he had told himself the ends justified the means. He’d clean himself up, and then he’d take her home. Maybe saysomethingso he could lessen the hurt on her face just a little. The last thing he’d wanted to do was hurt her. Even to hurt her brother. Maybe…he could make this right somehow.
He reached down between them, feeling the evidence of what they’d just done. That’s when he realized just how he had screwed up so completely.
The damned condom had broken. He might as well have just not used one at all. He’d just been so caught up in the moment with her he hadn’t noticed at all.
Hell. This wasn’t good.Thisdefinitely wasn’t good. Hell, he’d made things a hell of a lot worse.
Greer wasn’t on the pill. She had told him that when she’d asked him if he had protection. Twice. She had wanted to be absolutely certain she was protected…
And she wasn’t. Hadn’t been.Damn it.
