Page 57 of An Epic Voyage

Her mocking words hit him like a bolt of lust.Now, he was imagining her blissfully nude while he secured her wrists and ankles to the bedposts.

While he was lost in the fantasy, she lifted her arms.He watched in fascinated horror as she brought them down quickly against her abdomen while simultaneously pulling them back at right angles.The cuffs popped off.

That was a trick few people knew how to master.

She stalked forward, and he prepared for round two.

A loud crash sounded, and Indigo spun around.Griffin used the distraction to knock her to the ground again and secure her hands once more.This time, he used two flex cuffs.

With a mental salute to the lamp, which had been teetering on a table they had bumped into earlier, he jerked her to her feet again.Griffin tugged her with him as he found his metal cuffs, slapping them on with the others.

“Overkill, isn’t it, rent-a-cop?”she snarked.“What, are you afraid of a little ol’ me?A tiny woman?”

He snorted.She was more capable than anyone he knew.He forced her to sit on the couch.Then he dropped onto the coffee table in front of her.

“Who are you?Who sent you here?Why were you searching the island?”

She blinked innocently at him.“Which question do you want me to answer first?”

“Take your pick,” he growled.

“You seem to think you’re the expert.Why don’t you tell me?”

#

Indigo was fuming withfury, but mostly humiliation.Somehow, Griffin had gotten the better of her.Twice.That really stung.Now, her hands were securely bound.There was no way she was getting out of two sets of flex cuffs and metal ones.She was good, but Houdini she was not.

She had to figure a way out of this.

“You might as well tell me what I want to know.I assume you have people who would miss you.I can disappear you for a very long time.”

She pierced him with her gaze.“Did you just threaten to kill me?”

“I did not.”

“Then explain what disappearing me means.”

His mouth curved, and the dimples made an appearance.Bastard.

“I don’t have to.”

Indy gritted her teeth.How had she thought this man handsome?He was a slimy snake.That she still wanted to get naked with him fueled her anger.Before she realized what she was doing, she brought her foot up and kicked him in the face, knocking him off the table.She took satisfaction in the thumping sound, followed by his pained grunt.Too bad she’d taken off her shoes.

He pushed to his feet, holding a hand over his left eye.“What was that for, Indigo?”

“Just letting you know I won’t go down without a fight.”

He mumbled something about how he should’ve tied her feet too.Mistake on his part.

If she were honest with herself, he still turned her on.If she hadn’t been fighting for her life, their grappling would’ve been exhilarating.His rock-hard body was every bit a weapon, as was hers.It could’ve been foreplay, but there was no way she would tumble into bed with him now, no matter how adorable he looked with his blond hair mussed.

“What were you searching for?”

“The Holy Grail?The Ark of the Covenant?Amelia Earhart’s airplane?The lost city of Atlantis?”

Maybe it was her imagination, but she swore she saw smoke coming from his ears and nostrils.

“Damn it, Indigo, talk to me like a normal human being.I don’t want to hurt you.”