Chapter 56

Fury muffled a shriek as a hand covered her mouth. Then she muffled another as she tried to rise from the bed and her forehead collided with hard bone in the shadowed darkness.

"Ouch! Jesus," a male voice said. "Keep still, will you?"

"Flint? What the "

"Shh."

"Would you mind telling me what you're doing here?"

"I came to say goodbye to the mother of my child, sweetheart." His soft, warm breath brushed her lips. "You didn't think that was it earlier, did you?"

She groaned deep in her throat, striving in vain to move away. By God, this man couldn't take a hint, could he? She looked at his chiseled features in the band of silver moonlight fanning through the open shutters. At two in the morning he was here, a hundred miles from where he was meant to be.