A Mate to Believe In (Dragons of Mount Aterna Book 2) by Riley Storm

Author:Riley Storm [Storm, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High House Press
Published: 2020-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Carla

Day Four

She wasn’t in the best of moods to begin with when someone knocked on her door, interrupting her morning coffee. Barton naturally perked up and went running, waiting for her to come and open it. After all, nobody knew who was on the other side. It could even be the mailman!

“Grrr.”

Putting her mug down, staring wistfully at the steam curling up from the lip, she walked over to the front door and peered through the spyhole.

“It’s open,” she called through the door, flicking the lock and making a beeline back to her coffee.

“Good morning,” Pace said, stepping inside.

“Mmmm,” she replied through a deep sip of just-a-little-too-hot goodness. “Not yet.”

“Um. Morning, then?” he said, dropping the good and hitting her with a pair of raised eyebrows as if to say, ‘someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today, didn’t they?’

She ignored him for a moment, not ready to deal with humanity just yet. That gave him time to give Barton a good pet anyway, so it worked out for just about all parties, except maybe Pace.

Oh well, he would survive. He was a big boy.

Oh yes, he is…

Carla glared up at her brain, telling it to stop with the primal reminders of Pace’s sexual…endowment.

“Something on the ceiling?” Pace asked, walking into her kitchen, following her gaze upward.

“What?” Carla shook herself and craned her neck bad. “No, why?”

Pace frowned at her. “You were…never mind,” he said, waving it off. “What’s up, I got your text. Got something?”

“Not without some extreme effort, and more than a few threats on my end,” she growled. “You’d think that I was asking to hack into the president’s phone or something, instead of tracing a certain SIM card. Unbelievable.”

“Ah. Now I understand,” Pace said, giving her a little smile.

She fought down the butterflies in her stomach that threatened to lift her up onto her toes and present herself for a kiss.

He is not your boyfriend. Not even a boy friend. Or just a friend with…with, a six-pack, biceps as big as my legs and a co—Enough!

“It was not fun,” she grumbled, looking away, trying to discover where her self-control had gone since meeting Pace.

Carla had worked with some seriously hot men over the years, more than one of whom had tried to make a move on her. She wasn’t a saint, she had needs too, but over the past few years, her career had simply become more important and she’d ignored the temptations until they weren’t even that. Just something nice to look at.

Not Pace. He was in every corner of her mind. For heaven’s sake, he’d been in her dreams last night. They had been good dreams too, but now they were starting to intrude on her daily life. Carla needed to get a grip on herself and her damn hormones. After all, that’s all this was with him. A physical demand.

Wasn’t it?

“But they did cave to you in the end I assume?” Pace asked, cautiously peering into her coffee pot.

“Help

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