Jar of Hearts: (Family Stone, # 5 Keisha and Shane) (Family Stone Romantic Suspense) Read Free

understand why we have to go undercover as a couple.” Keisha pursed her mouth, her bronze lip gloss gleamed in the early morning light of Jack’s office. Shane forced his attention away from her luscious mouth. “Why can’t you just investigate?”
    “We’ll actually be there too.” Jack said, “The chairman asked me as a favor to get to the bottom of what is going on. But the board knows me and my brothers and my sister. It’s clearly an inside job in some way. So…I needed to bring in someone they don’t know.”
    Shane listened to Jack babble on about times and locations and other logistics for tonight’s ‘mission’, but he was still stuck back on one heart-pounding, libido-inciting, temperature-raising fact.
    Hells yeah. They were going to be a couple.

Two
    Keisha checked her silhouette in the mirror. She’d bought the slinky black cocktail dress for a trip to Las Vegas with her old boyfriend. But he’d bailed at the last minute.
    She looked damned fine in the tight, short dress. Her red lace, push up bra created cleavage that gave her interesting shadows in the keyhole cutout, and the little bit of spandex in the dress caused it to cling to her well-apportioned ass. While she always thought she was a little too round, guys had yet to complain about the size of her butt.
    And what the hell was she doing thinking about her assets in this dress? Her heart beat in triple time against her ribcage as she thought about the upcoming assignment. Tonight was just to lay the groundwork. She and Shane were supposed to go and cement their cover as a wealthy, philanthropic couple looking for a new cause to support.
    The plan was to get an invite to visit the actual warehouse, hopefully tomorrow, and check out the security and see if they could set up a place for surveillance so they could catch whoever was covertly delivering the produce in the act.
    She was one part excited about spending time with Shane, and one part annoyed with herself for being excited about spending time with Shane. But she couldn’t deny that just being in the same space as the hot, big man raised her awareness of both him and her own body.
    Her nipples tightened and her sex tingled as she thought about having to pretend to be Shane’s wife. He was going to have to touch her. Of course, it wouldn’t be anything too intimate but she was going to have to steel herself for the feel of his rough, callused hands against her skin.
    She slipped her feet into the four inch heels with gladiator straps and a zipper up the back and admired the sleek shimmer of the body lotion on her legs and arms. The light spicy fragrance enveloped her and gave her confidence a much needed boost.
    Shane Washington was a player.
    She knew it. And she needed to keep that fact front and center in her mind.
    A heavy pounding startled her out of her thoughts. She’d wanted to meet Shane at the restaurant where the event was being held, but he’d argued that they were a couple and would logically drive together. She’d relented but she hated the idea of having Shane in her home, fearing once he’d been in her space, she and it would never be the same.
    Shane Washington banged on the door of the nondescript condo. He was pumped about this small assignment for several reasons. One, he’d been restless lately. A little action was welcome. Two, he was looking forward to spending time with Keisha Johnson. Usually he avoided any kind of interaction with women he worked with. Besides the fact that the no fraternization policy pretty much worked, he tried to keep things with women light and easy. He wasn’t a long term prospect and he had no wish to piss off people, women especially, that he worked with. But ever since last November, Keisha Johnson had been on his mind.
    A strange exhilaration gripped him. He couldn’t wait to spend time with her. The rush of adrenaline and thrill of anticipation was the same as when he was about to lift off the runway. And he began