“Just like that,” she said, clutching the blanket in her hands as she rocked back against him.“Don’t stop.Please don’t stop.”
Darwin tightened his grip on her hips and slammed into her over and over, driving himself deep every time.The tingling in her core let her know that another orgasm was coming, much faster than she would have ever imagined possible, and a moment later, she tumbled over the precipice all over again.Screaming into the fluffy comforter, she sensed more than felt Darwin come with her.
When he slid out a little while later, she flopped over on her side like a marionette with its strings cut, and stayed there.
Her eyes drifted closed, her whole body continuing to hum with the tremors of her most recent orgasm.In the background, she heard Darwin moving around.A few moments later, she felt him pick her up in his arms and gently tuck her into bed.Then he turned off the lights and crawled in beside her, one arm wrapping around her shoulders.She reached up to give him a long, slow kiss, then rested her head on his chest, throwing her arm across his chest and cuddling up to him.
“That was magical,” he said softly, his breath ruffling her hair.
Katrina smiled and snuggled closer.“Yeah, it was.”
In fact, saying it was the best sex she’d ever had wasn’t hyperbole.Darwin was everything she wanted in a lover and a partner.She could easily see herself spending the rest of her life with him.
And yes, she knew they still had to figure out how to confront her father and brother about everything involving the Genesis Project, but right now, she didn’t want to think about that.She simply wanted to fall asleep in Darwin’s arms.
Everything else could wait until after the wedding.
Chapter fourteen
“Sorrytodragyouaway from Katrina again,” Lennox said as Darwin walked off the back ramp of the Osprey to fall into step beside him as they crossed the flight line at San Nicolas Island to join the rest of their Team.“But Seth called and wanted us here ASAP.The other guys and I got here two hours ago and then just sat on our hands.It’s like they wanted to have us here just in case.”
Darwin didn’t like the sound of that.Lennox had called a few minutes before sunrise, telling him to get back to Coronado as fast as possible to hop on the bird waiting to bring him to the island.Katrina hadn’t been thrilled he had to leave, but had nodded, then given him a fierce hug and a kiss, telling him to be careful and come back soon.He’d hated leaving her just as much.After last night, all he wanted to do was spend the whole day in bed making love to her.
Because last night had been seriously amazing.
Darwin frowned as he dropped off his cell phone at the security station on the way to the same hangar they’d used for the mission briefs before.“If this takes as long as the other times we were here, there’s no chance I’ll make it back to Escondido for the wedding tonight.”
Which sucked.
“I have no idea what’s going on,” Lennox admitted as they walked down the hallway.“But I get the feeling something went wrong with the project.”
“What makes you think that?”
Lennox shrugged.“Everyone’s on edge.They’re all whispering to each other and looking over their shoulders to make sure no one overhears.There are more people in suits around and a Navy Captain who looks like he’s ready to chew somebody’s head off.His name is Reynolds, and we’ve definitely never seen him before.”
“Maybe it has something to do with the fact that this phase was supposed to include a live ammunition portion?”Darwin wondered aloud.“Though I have no idea how they plan on pulling that off.I’m sure as hell not going to run around in the woods and let that damn drone shoot at me again.”
“I don’t think that’s it,” Lennox said.“Reynolds is wearing a Naval Criminal Investigation Services badge.I can’t imagine why someone from NCIS would be out here unless something went wrong.”
Crap.That wasn’t good, Darwin thought.Especially given what he and Katrina suspected about her father and brother.
When Lennox opened the door at the end of the hall and led him inside, Darwin saw that it was a breakroom with a couple couches, a few chairs, a makeshift kitchenette, and the other members of their SEAL team.
“Hey,” Simon said from where he was leaning back against the counter.“How’s the destination wedding going?”
Darwin threw a nod his way, then did the same to Trace, Dean, and Colt.Flopping down on the other end of the couch from Lennox, he filled them in on the less-than-wonderful family dinner he and Katrina had with her family.
“To say Jameson doesn’t approve of me dating his daughter is the understatement of the century,” Darwin added.“Then again, I don’t think he’d like me even if I wasn’t involved with Katrina.But while dinner itself was a train wreck, we did have a chance to sneak into her father’s office and break into his safe.”
Simon did a double-take.“Wait.What?”
Darwin told them what Katrina’s former nanny had told her about Jameson keeping notes on his more interesting business dealings in a journal locked in his safe.
“Luckily, Katrina was able to figure out the safe combination, and we got a look at the journal,” Darwin said.“I sent everything we found to Kyla so she could do a little more digging, but even without that, Katrina and I figured out that her father and brother, along with Silas, Harold, and Arthur, are all major investors in the Genesis Project.And if we’re understanding the various conversations we’ve been eavesdropping on lately, it seems like some of them are thinking about backing out of the contract they have with the Navy in the hopes of getting a bigger stack of cash from someone else.It’s almost certain his reluctance to go along with that idea is what got Arthur killed.”
Colt shook his head.“This whole thing could only happen to one of us.You go to a wedding and end up involved in some kind of plot involving a classified Navy weapon.We probably should have seen this coming as soon as you stumbled over that dead body.”
True that, Darwin thought.The odds of everything coming together like this, meeting Katrina, getting invited to the wedding, being one of the SEALs assigned to the Genesis Project, should have been impossible.Yet, here they were.
