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  She groaned and moaned, and then she demanded, “Now.”

  And he plunged deep, his body stilling as he was centered right at her core. She cried out, a slight whimper that became a full-born climax when it rippled through her. But he wouldn’t let her stop there. He started to move, withdrawing and entering faster and faster, deeper, stronger, then shifting their positions, rocking her body as he took complete and total possession of every bit of her.

  Finally she could feel him clenching hard above her, a deep guttural groan rising from his chest, pouring out of his throat. She reached up, clutched him hard and raised herself to meet him with several hip thrusts, feeling a second climax rolling through her.

  He dropped beside her, tucking her to him, pulling her close against his heart. Wrapped in each other’s arms, she lay trembling against his chest, loving the sound of his heart pounding under her ear.

  “Do we have to go back downstairs?” she whispered.

  He clutched her to him and held her tight. “You know something? Maybe we don’t.”

  “Will they care?”

  Laughter rumbled up his chest. “I don’t. Do you?”

  She lifted her head and smiled at him. “Hell no. I suggest we stay here for the rest of the night. We’ll face the music in the morning.”

  He stroked her cheeks and forehead and said, “No music. Just joy. Anders already knew, and so did your grandfather.”

  Tears came to her eyes as she whispered, “I’ll still have trouble leaving him.”

  “I know,” he said. “If you’re not ready yet …”

  She placed a finger across his lips. “I can’t come right now anyway because I have to finish this job with Emporium. I have to take care of my flat. And I need some time with my grandfather.”

  He nodded. “I can stay for a couple days right now. But then I’ll have to return to the States or head out to another job. I’ll be traveling a lot.”

  She smiled. “That’s okay. I’m not exactly sure what I’ll do, but I’ll find something.”

  He pulled her down. “Really what I found is you. And that makes everything about this trip worthwhile.” He kissed her again.

  She slid her hands around his neck and played with the curls at the back of his nape. When she could, she pulled herself away a little bit so she could look at him. “You sure it’s not too fast?”

  He gave her a wicked grin. “Sweetie, in my world, this is totally normal.”

  She stared into his gaze, gauging his seriousness, but what she could read made her heart thump away in joy. “So you’re sure?”

  “Are you?” he asked.

  She nodded. “You’re my hero. I’m never letting you go.”

  This time she lowered her head to his and kissed him. A kiss of today and the kiss of tomorrow. And, if they were lucky, a kiss for forever.

  And she’d never been happier.

  Epilogue

  Anders Renau sat downstairs with Charles, celebrating, holding cut-crystal glasses of whiskey. Anders smiled and said, “Another one bites the dust.”

  Charles chuckled. “Good timing. I was really starting to worry she’d never find anybody.”

  “And I thought we were talking about the assignment.” Anders put down his whiskey glass, pulled out his phone and sent Levi a quick message, letting him know about the change in relationship status for North.

  The response was almost instantaneous. Interesting. And not unexpected. The unknown was which one of you two she would choose.

  He read the message to Charles.

  Charles nodded. “Levi and I had already discussed that. But we figured she’d make a choice in her own time.” He studied Anders. “You’re not upset, I hope?”

  Anders grinned. “Hell no. She was not meant to be for me. She and North are perfect together.”

  “That’s what I think too,” Charles added.

  Levi sent another message. You’ve got two more days there, if you choose to spend them in England. Then you have a job in Switzerland.

  “Oh, good. I’ll be in Switzerland after this,” Anders said. “I wonder if North is supposed to travel with me.”

  “Maybe,” Charles said. “Nikki won’t leave England just yet. She has to finish her job here, and I’m sure she’ll want to stick around and see that the business shuts down properly. So she’ll be detained at least for another week.”

  Anders sent a message back to Levi. Switzerland sounds great. What about North?

  He can stay in England for a couple more days if he wants.

  Laughing out loud, Anders hit Reply. I guarantee you that he’ll want to spend those days here. He considered this new assignment for a moment. “I wonder why Switzerland? I haven’t heard any chatter concerning that country.”

  “That’s one country I haven’t been to for a long time. It’s beautiful,” Charles said. “I’ve spent a lot of time in Geneva and Lausanne. And, of course, Zermatt for the standard tourist trip.”

  Anders nodded thoughtfully. “I’ve been skiing at several locations in Switzerland, but I’ve never been there strictly for business.”

  “It sounds like it will be work this time.”

  His phone buzzed again. It was Levi. You’ll be meeting Dezi and Reyes Handleman en route too.

  What’s the job?

  Retrieving a package. An expensive package.

  Alive or dead?

  But instead of texting a reply, Levi called. When Anders answered, Levi said, laughing, “She is alive and well and kicking mad.”

  “Who is she, and why are we retrieving her?”

  “She is a specialist in glaciers. Don’t ask me for more details because I really don’t know anything more. But she is one of those specialists who measures the ice melt and the damage done in the retreat of icebergs.”

  “And we’re retrieving her why?”

  “Her father is a senator. He’s in trouble and has received threats, putting his daughter in danger too. If you don’t want to go to Switzerland, just say so.”

  “I’m delighted to go to Switzerland. And I don’t mind picking up this package,” he said. “The feistier, the better.”

  “Oh, you’ll love this job then. I’ll text you her name when I get off.” And Levi hung up on him.

  Anders grabbed the whiskey, held it up to Charles and said, “To my next job in Switzerland.”

  The men clinked glasses together and settled back to enjoy the fire. Anders couldn’t help but think this job was something he was actually looking forward to. He adored women. And, like he had told Levi, the feistier, the better. She might not want to return with him, but she really wouldn’t get much of a choice.

  His phone buzzed. He looked at the name of the woman he was collecting and laughed. Angelica. … Perfect, chances were good she wouldn’t want anything to do with Anders.

  Too bad. She would come with him—whether she wanted to or not.

  This concludes Book 15 of Heroes for Hire: North’s Nikki.

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  Heroes for Hire: Ander’s Angel (Book #16)

  Anders Wallace is sent to Switzerland by his employer, Legendary Securities, to retrieve a glaciologist. Her father faces a political nightmare that’s made him worried enough to hire a former Navy SEAL to make sure his daughter isn’t used as leverage against him.

  An expert in an otherwise male-dominated field, Angela Ainsworth has spent her life studying snow and ice in order to cope with the never-ending heartaches associated with her parents’ divorce and her own fiancé’s betrayal. When Anders come barreling into her life, ordering her to return home on her father’s orders, she’s far from impressed…and she has absolutely no intention of obeying.

  Anders loves Switzerland but, given the circumstances, he’d rather be anywhere else besides here, where this stubborn beauty wants nothing to do with him or her father’s political agenda she’d tried to escape long ago. Despite her attitude, and regardless of the instant attraction that fla
res between them, Anders has to keep Angela safe in a world more hostile than any he’s ever encountered before.

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  NORTH’S NIKKI: HEROES FOR HIRE, BOOK 15

  Dale Mayer

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