Beyond Shame: Beyond, Book One by Kit Rocha

Author:Kit Rocha [Rocha, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Erotica
ISBN: 9781479327577
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-09-16T03:58:52+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Her heart in her throat, Noelle shoved through the door to Dallas's bedroom and nearly moaned her relief at seeing Jasper on his feet, more or less whole. Bring the med kit to my room was all Dallas had told her before wheeling off in search of Lex, and the five minutes it had taken her to collect the first aid supplies and traverse the maze of corridors to the large suite had been among the longest in recent memory.

But she was here now, and he was alive. "Jasper? Are you hurt?"

He held up his arm. "It's nothing. Just a scratch."

An odd piece of furniture sat a few feet in front of her, one that looked like two padded leather benches connected back-to-back, so they faced in opposite directions. She set the med kit down on the shared back and lifted the cover. "Sit and let me look at it. I'm not very good, but I know how to use gel and bandages."

Instead, he slipped his hand into her hair and yanked her down for a rough kiss. The pounding of her heart shifted from fear to exhilaration as she slapped one hand on his shoulder to keep her balance.

Even that didn't help when he dragged her into his lap and pressed the slim tube of healing gel into her hand. "This and you. That's what I need."

She had to catch her breath as she twisted the top off the tube. "How did this happen?"

Jasper growled. "Some bastard got this bright idea to blow Dallas up. We stopped him. Had a little bit of a fight, though."

Her hand trembled, and it took another breath to steady it enough to apply the healing gel to the long, shallow cut. Blood had dried on his skin, bisecting the flesh left bare of ink, in some places looking like artwork of its own.

"You all could have died," she whispered as the truth of that fact hit her hard in the gut. The cage fights, those were manufactured danger, violence in controlled form. Tonight had been real.

"We smelled the trap," Jasper countered. "We had it, solid. No reason for you to worry."

She frowned. "You're bleeding."

"That happens more often than you'd think out here."

"Then I get to worry if I want to." She dropped the gel back into the kit and found a precut bandage. His muscles were so large that it only wrapped around his arm twice, and she stripped away the protective panel from the adhesive at the end and sealed it in place with a kiss to the coarse fabric. "I don't like it when you bleed."

He smiled, slow and hot. "Liar."

It wasn't the blood that stirred her, but the fact that he was whole. Hard against her, so vital, so alive... "I don't like it when you bleed," she repeated, kissing the warm skin above the bandage. "I like it when you win."

"That I believe." He slipped his arms around her and kissed her again. Slow and warm and wet,

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