Ultimate Surrender: The Surrender Series, Book 2 Read Free Page B

“Detective Wyatt already knows what’s happening. I’ve been forwarding things to him. They can’t track anything. The guy, girl, whatever is using some type of rerouting service for his IP info. One will show Iceland, another Fiji. The last one was Peru.”
    Campbell seemed to ponder something for a minute and then pegged her with those eyes of his, and it took everything she had to keep from looking away.
    “How long has this been going on?”
    “Which part of it?”
    He narrowed his eyes. “Emails. Attempted hit-and-runs. Somebody littering on your front walk. All of it.”
    Natalie lost the fight of keeping eye contact, which she’d kick herself for later. Much later. As in when they were a few hundred blocks apart. “Several months.”
    He moved slowly, leaning across the table, and she froze. Not having a clue what he was about to do dumped adrenaline in her system so fast she had to tamp down the fight-or-flight reaction racing through her veins. The brush of his fingertips on her chin made her clench her teeth together while the rest of her body tried to go limp.
    Lifting her chin, he forced her to look at him again. “How many is several?”
    Getting into an argument with him really didn’t suit her mood, but she decided to go ahead and rip off as many bandages as she could in one sitting. “Fourteen months.” Standing to get away from his—everything—reeked of being a coward but she just couldn’t take being so close to him, especially not with the taste of his mouth still on her lips when she licked them.
    “You’re fucking kidding me.”
    She rolled her eyes at him over her shoulder then proceeded to the window so she could look down at the street below. “Wish I was.”
    “Over a year? And you’re just now getting to telling me about it?”
    “Yes?” Wasn’t supposed to come out a question but her body wasn’t exactly reacting normally around him. She took a deep breath and tried to get her girly bits to calm the fuck down.
    “And we’ve known each other for how long?”
    “No clue,” she retorted and crossed her arms. Keeping him out or holding herself together, she wasn’t sure which. Both maybe?
    His reflection in the glass as he approached her reminded her how attractive he was. As if she needed a refresher. He stood behind her, close enough she could feel his body heat, but not close enough she could feel if he was hard or not. His eyes, they haunted her dreams but this time she couldn’t look away. No way. Not when she saw something close to hurt in them.
    “It’s been longer than fourteen months.”
    “Your point being, Campbell?”
    “My point is why the fuck is this the first time we’re hearing about this?”
    “And earlier today you were soooo willing to believe me that something was happening?”
    “That’s beside the point.”
    She whirled around and faced him down. “I call bullshit.”
    “You needed help. You needed protection. You needed—”
    “I needed to do exactly what I did. I kept everything. I made police reports. I kept in contact with Detective Wyatt when anything new happened.”
    “And you had other resources at your disposal to keep you safe.”
    “Safe,” she scoffed. “What a fairytale.” Voicing that made her sound bitter, more bitter than she was. Or at least more bitter than she wanted to be. Changing the subject sounded like an excellent idea. “And you and Clay were both occupied at the time. And when it started I thought it was just some nut job asshole that didn’t like what I was doing with the clinic.” She shrugged. “It happens.”
    “Occupied or not you should have—”
    “When everything started you were both protecting a very pregnant Angela who needed all of your attention. Her threat was real and terrifying.”
    “You almost getting run down, what is it? Four times now? You don’t think that’s real?”
    Her shoulder and arm still hurt from the last attempt. “It’s real all right. No matter how much I want