Angel_An SOBs Novel by Irish Winters

Author:Irish Winters [Winters, Irish]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Windy Days Press
Published: 2018-01-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

“When a man loves a woman…” With every touch and every sigh, the lyrics sung by Percy Sledge spun round and round in Chance’s head, taunting him to tell her. To say the word that mattered. It was past time.

He’d caught the hint of a shadow flicker through her pretty blues when he hadn’t returned her sentiments. It wasn’t that he didn’t care deeply about her, because he did, but what would a woman like Suede want with a banged up guy like him? What would she get out of the deal? Lonely nights while he was off in some dark corner of the world fighting more bad guys? Never ending worry that he wouldn’t come home again? Heartache? A flag-draped coffin and a white marble headstone in Arlington? It didn’t seem fair and he wasn’t that selfish.

Suede deserved more. Man, she was adorable. She made it hard to stay focused on the dangerous job at hand, and damn it. He had to get his mind back to zero or this op would fail before it got off the ground.

He’d purposely set the beacons to safeguard the cabin while he was away, and to reinforce, at least to himself, how risky this trip topside would be. Suede was no trained operator. She’d never climbed before, and he was pretty certain that if all went as planned, rappelling down the south face of Old Man Mountain would be extremely difficult for the woman who’d been shoved off of it just days earlier.

Yet one look at her, one frosty hint of her minty breath, and he was lost in space. Hitching her into her climbing gear hadn’t helped. A certain protectiveness had filled him with every tug at her harness, especially the strap between her legs. It had to be the caveman in him, but there was something about tying a woman up that teased the erotic beast within. Not that he’d ever been into all that BDSM crap, but the instinct to dominate her was there, nonetheless. So was an intense need to control everything around her, so she didn’t get hurt today or ever again. Yeah. Had to be the caveman in him.

Chance bumped her chin with his thumb to make her look up at him. Wearing the same style of tinted goggles he wore, he couldn’t see her tropical blues, but her brows were arched, and he knew she was worried. This would be a difficult mission for a novice, but there weren’t a lot of choices. It was York or Suede, and Chance chose Suede every time.

“It’s not a tough climb,” he told her. “Keep your head up and your eyes on the ropes in front of you. I’ve set enough anchors along the way, and there are plenty of footholds, you’ll be okay. It’s south facing granite, so the sun’s melted what snow the wind didn’t blow away. If you get in trouble, stop and breathe, but do not look down.”

Suede had a habit of jerking her head to the left when she was stressed, like a nervous tick.

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