One Night In Texas

One Night In Texas
Jane Sullivan

All covert operative Derek Stone wanted was to get in and get out. The job was simple. Unfortunately, getting caught by Alyssa Ballard wasn't part of the plan. Six months ago they'd had a week of wild, wonderful sex. Then he'd left without a trace.Derek's undercover work allows him to get close to no one– though he can't help wanting another under-the-covers experience with sexy Alyssa. His mission in Dallas wraps up in twenty-four hours, and he wants to make them count. While he knows he should walk away again, Derek wants Alyssa…and one more night in Texas.

“Don’t you know what you do to me?”

“What?” Derek whispered. “Tell me.”

Alyssa’s throat was too tight to release the words.

Still staring at her intently, Derek encircled her wrist with his fingers, pressing his thumb to her pulse point. “Never mind,” he murmured. “I can feel it.”

He was right. Her heart was racing like mad. And she wanted him, no matter how wrong it was.

“I’m such a fool,” she said.

“Why?”

“I believed everything you told me before, and here I am believing you all over again.” From the first moment Derek had caught her eye, she’d had the feeling he could read her every thought.

“I haven’t lied to you. Not this time,” he murmured, edging closer to her.

“No lies, maybe. Just a few gaping omissions.”

“You can believe this,” he said, slipping his arm around her waist. “Not a day has gone by in the last six months that I haven’t wanted you.”

With that, he dragged her to him and kissed her.

Dear Reader,

What if you had a scorching one-week affair with a sexy, mysterious man, only to have him disappear without a trace? What if you found out every word he’d told you during that week was a lie, including his real name? What if fate brought you face-to-face with him again six months later in a luxury high-rise apartment penthouse, and he appeared to be robbing the place?

In One Night in Texas, this is the situation Alyssa Ballard finds herself in. But during the next twenty-four hours she discovers the secret behind the man she was once so infatuated with, and suddenly she’s falling for him all over again.

I love to create stories where my characters end up together through unusual circumstances neither one of them could have anticipated. I hope you enjoy One Night in Texas, and that it holds a few surprises for you, too.

Visit my Web site at www.janesullivan.com, or write to me at jane@janesullivan.com. I’d love to hear from you!

Best wishes,

Jane Sullivan

Books by Jane Sullivan

HARLEQUIN TEMPTATION

854—ONE HOT TEXAN

898—RISKY BUSINESS

960—TALL, DARK AND TEXAN

1002—WHEN HE WAS BAD…

HARLEQUIN DUETS

33—STRAY HEARTS

48—THE MATCHMAKER’S MISTAKE

One Night in Texas

Jane Sullivan

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

This book is dedicated to the people who have read my Harlequin Temptation novels over the years, with special thanks to those of you who have written to me with such kind words or shared my books with other readers. I hope you enjoy this one!

Contents

Chapter 1 (#u4ce127af-d4d3-5e09-92b6-44e2aeb341fe)

Chapter 2 (#ua5a19c4a-d851-5cc2-9bea-3dfd63fc05ae)

Chapter 3 (#u015bcec2-464d-52aa-8759-adc8f63ab9ae)

Chapter 4 (#ub8ceb1a7-017c-5fea-8e4d-d7d5408fcb2e)

Chapter 5 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 6 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)