Read Online Gone Too Far by Angela Winters - Free Book Online Page B

information,” she replied, “I am always taking care of our daughter. I told you two weeks ago that with the ethnic art festival in L.A. this week, we were going to get extra traffic and I would have to work extra hours.”
    â€œAnd I told you no.”
    Avery’s eyes closed to almost slits. “I wasn’t asking for your permission. I was telling you so you would know.”
    â€œYour mother can’t take care of Connor the way she needs,” Carter said.
    Avery laughed. “You’re ridiculous. My mother raised three children perfectly fine.”
    â€œYes, but she’s taking care of your father. She can’t watch a baby and a sick husband at the same time.”
    â€œYou’re really reaching now,” Avery said. “My father is just fine now. He doesn’t need any extra care at all.”
    Avery’s father, Charlie Jackson, was the police chief of View Park. One evening, while out for dinner with Avery’s brother, Sean, they came across a group of kids trying to steal a car. Charlie was shot twice in the stomach and almost died. It was this emergency that made Avery come out of hiding in Miami, where she had gone to keep her pregnancy a secret from Carter, and return to View Park with Anthony, thus letting her secret out. Although he was not fit enough to return to the force, he had recovered nicely and was doing fine.
    â€œI’m stretching?” Carter asked, fuming. “The only thing that I’m stretching is how long I’m going to let you keep our daughter if you keep handing her off to other people.”
    Avery rushed around the counter to come face-to-face with him. “Don’t you dare threaten me! I don’t pawn her off on anyone. Nikki is her grandmother!”
    â€œWell, she may be Connor’s grandmother, but she’s acting like a better mother to her than you!”
    Carter didn’t have a second to think before he felt Avery’s hand slap against his cheek like a cold whip. He blinked at the burn before locking his bright hazel eyes with Avery’s large and raging ones. His entire body lit on fire, and without thinking, he grabbed her by her upper arms and pulled her to him.
    When his mouth came down on hers, Avery was shocked. She was so filled with rage that to have it mixed so unexpectedly with desire was a jolt to her system. But only for a second because as soon as she felt his strong lips against hers, Avery experienced a ferocious pull in her gut that set her body on fire. His kiss was hard and demanding, and her body melted into his as she received it, feeling the longing inside her awaken at rapid speed. The intensity of so much anger and passion sparked an all-consuming craving.
    The taste of her lips was so good to Carter that it was painful. It had been so long since he tasted them, but it had not been long since he’d dreamed of tasting them. There was something about her mouth that made him want more and more. He aggressively drew her even closer to him and drank up her sweet taste that sent electric waves through his body.
    â€œNo,” Carter said in a tortured whisper as he pushed her away. He was so angry with himself for being so damn weak when it came to this woman. How could he hate her so much but within seconds want nothing more than to touch her, kiss her, and be inside her? What was she doing to him? What was this power she had?
    â€œThis isn’t going to work,” he said, trying to catch his out-of-control breath.
    Avery was too stunned to even think or focus. Her entire body was like a volcano, and all she could think was that she wanted him, needed him, more. “What isn’t…What…What won’t work?”
    â€œYou’re not going to seduce me,” Carter said, finally able to look her in the face. How is it that a man who had spent his life controlling his feelings for women easily could have absolutely no control over himself when this woman was