Blowback by Lyn Gala

Author:Lyn Gala
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781419932144
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc
Published: 2014-01-15T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

“Tom!” Becca rushed the hatch, barely letting Tom get in the door before she was on him. “Oh my heavenly saints and gods, what happened?” Her hand brushed over his slave mark.

“Went and got slaved out,” Tom answered. “I didn’t get some mark put on me just for stupidity.”

“I didn’t—” She stopped and punched him in the arm. “Don’t go doing that again,” she ordered him.

That was a dumb order. Da’shay came up behind Tom, pressing close to his back. “Didn’t do it on purpose this time,” Tom pointed out.

“Will you two get out of our way?” Ramsay called from behind.

“Captain’s getting irritable, but after he went and lost you, he can stay irritable,” Becca said, but she started moving back toward the galley.

“Why didn’t you ever tell me you preferred to bed girls?” Tom asked.

Becca stopped. “Why didn’t I… What? Who told you that?”

“I did,” Da’shay offered while still hanging on Tom’s shoulder.

Becca’s mouth fell open.

“Seems a little mean to never mention that considering that I was putting some of my best efforts into getting in your…good graces.” Tom had very nearly said something that even he knew would get him in deep shit.

“And I appreciated your best efforts,” Becca said, then she leaned over and glared at Da’shay, “but I don’t think it was really any of your business.”

“You could have saved me a whole lot of grief by telling me anyway,” Tom said before he headed toward the galley. The collar forced him to stop by nearly choking him. “Hey!” Tom complained as he turned back to see what Da’shay thought she was doing. She was glaring at him and Becca had her arms crossed. Tom gritted his teeth as life went back to the same old pattern of other people taking offense when he just spoke the truth.

“Do you not like Becca now?” Da’shay asked. From her expression, that thought wasn’t making her happy at all.

“It ain’t that I don’t like her. She’s still a beautiful woman—all curves and soft bits—and smarter than any three other people I know put together. But if she’s looking for another woman, at least I know why she won’t look at me. Hell, I should have spent more time asking her to hit the doxy houses with me if she was looking for female company. Maybe we could’ve shared.” If Tom wasn’t going to get Becca, sharing a doxy would have been the next best thing.

Becca was slowly turning beet red and seemed to have stopped breathing.

“That really is the single most horrifying thing you could have said,” Ramsay complained as he squeezed past them in the hall and headed for the galley. “And as the captain, I am not listening to any of it because there were about a hundred harassment regulations that just got broken.”

“If I can’t touch, I wouldn’t mind seeing, that’s all I’m saying. There’s nothing wrong with that,” Tom defended himself. “I wouldn’t mind if she expressed an interest in looking at me. Hell, in this shirt, she’s seeing a whole lot of me already.

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