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find me some real chocolate out here. Then there’s no telling what I’ll call you.”
    He laughed. The sound rippled across her skin and she couldn’t take her eyes away from his face as he threw his head back, completely at ease, completely in his element. Like a pirate come to life with his blonde hair blowing in the wind, his sun-kissed skin soft brown with a tint of red, the vein on the side of his neck so enticing. She wanted to…
    Lord help.
    His laughter stopped and he looked at her, appreciation obvious in the way his eyes danced along her skin slowly, taking in everything about her. Awareness shot through her swift and powerful and all consuming. She met his eyes, bit her bottom lip and wondered just how much this man could see.  
    Could he see what she’d worked so hard to hide? The hurt, the disillusionment, the anger.  
    She closed her eyes to keep him from seeing more and wished the awareness would come back, wipe away the bad thoughts, the lump in her throat that threatened to turn to tears any second.
    But when she opened her eyes again, he was looking out over the lake as if the moment had never occurred.
    Good. That was good. She repeated the thought again and again until he finally spoke.
    “So you really like chocolate, huh?”
    Oh thank God. This she could handle. And like was an understatement. “Yeah. I think it’s kind of a sickness really. It started with late night runs to a local drive-thru for hot fudge sundaes on nights Charlie worked late, graduated to full out assaults on Ben and Jerry’s after Charlie left. When he died, he left me broke. You’d be surprised how good Ghiradelli’s tastes when the bills come in.”
    Wow. She hadn’t meant to tell him all that. Hadn’t meant to say anything. But now she had and he was looking at her like she’d totally lost it. She’d probably killed all attraction he’d felt with that little confession. She’d seen for herself what a health nut he was.
    And that was okay. She’d learned a long time ago that Haagan Dazs beat the heck out of lying in the bed of a faithless man.
    Besides, she didn’t want to be in Riley’s bed anyway. She didn’t want to be anywhere near him. If she kept repeating that thought, it had to be true.

Chapter Four
    Thirty minutes later as he and Callah walked up to his cabin, Riley figured they were safe. No gun shots. No strange people lurking around corners. For now it was just him and Callah looking at him like he’d saved the day.
    Wonderful. He’d gone from worn out, washed up reporter to superhero in less than twenty-four hours. Stand back Bat Man.
    He looked down where she stood waiting for him to tell her what to do next. Her eyes were round and scared and just a little aggravated as she looked around the back of the cabin. She was trying to hide the aggravated part. He could tell by the way her mouth tilted up at him as she waited.
    Her sweet smile made him feel like a saint. Her sinful lips made him feel about as far away from saintly as a man could get.
    Damn, she was still one hot babe. He really needed to stop thinking about her like that. Fishing the cabin keys out of his pocket he told himself to get his mind back where it belonged. Callah was on the run for her life. They needed to find out why.
    Once they made it inside the cabin, he pointed to the bedroom off the side of the living room. “You can put the bag in there for now. If you want a nap or something, go ahead and sleep. The sheets are clean. I’m going to call my brother.”
    Anything to get away from the unadulterated appreciation he saw on her face. She needed to remember who she was dealing with here. He wasn’t some sort of savior. He was a creep who couldn’t seem to stop thinking about talking her out of her clothes even though they were on the run from some unknown boogey-man.
    “I slept plenty. I’ll stay in here while you talk to your brother. He may want to ask me something.”
    He shrugged determined to put distance of