A puzzled look flashes in her gaze. “I didn’t send them to you.”
“You didn’t have to. You didn’t log out of your email. It was still open on my laptop.”
“Oh jeez.” Her eyes widen. “I’m not good at this covert stuff.”
“You don’t have to be. You’ve got us now.”
With a shake of her head, she rubs at her temple. “No one has ever been so good to me.”
“I’m sorry you’ve had to go through so much.”
I lean in and brush my lips over hers because now that I’ve gotten one taste, I’m not going to be able to stop, exactly like I told her.
“I wish I could erase all the pain.”
“You don’t have to erase anything, you can just… be you.”
Can I?
I’ve never felt the possessiveness I feel for Jade. It makes me dangerous. More than just being a trained killing machine.
If anything happened to Jade, I’d lose my fucking mind.
“What are you thinking?” she asks, ranging her fingers down my pecs, touching me in a shy, sexual way for the first time.
“I’m thinking how unrealistically possessive and bossy I’m going to be because of the way you make me feel.”
“Grrr…” she teases, but I’m dead serious.
Jade makes me question everything. How am I going to function with her safetyconsumingmy thoughts.
I could barely operate on the mission tonight. My team deserves better.
“You should eat.” I pull back, standing up.
It’s too much. Too fast for her.
“You tryin’ to thicken me up?”
“I think it’s been a while since you had regular meals. That won’t happen on my guard.”
She nods, turning quiet and I move the plates of food toward the bed. “Here, hold these,” I tell her, then climb onto the bed to rest my back against the headboard, pulling her between my legs so she can relax back onto me.
“Wow, you make a great cushion,” she teases, settling in against me.
Being soft is the last thing on my mind. Jade makes me hard all over.
As my cock goes from half to full mast, I stifle a curse. This is going to be torture.
But my mind can’t help building images of us on a beach in some faraway place. Her sun-kissed skin stretched out before me, as we drink from coconuts.
Fuck. I smother my groan with a cough.
She has to feel the thickening of my cock against her back.
When Jade glances up at me over her shoulder, her cheeks are growing pinker.
Yep. Definitely knows I’m running hot for her.
