Captured 3 by Lorhainne Eckhart

Author:Lorhainne Eckhart [Lorhainne Eckhart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense
ISBN: 9781928085164
Google: 2Y4XBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00M26VRQ6
Publisher: Lorhainne Eckhart
Published: 2014-11-17T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

She was gorgeous, and she was his. He couldn’t wait to taste her, to have her under him. She appeared so shy at first as he closed the door to their hotel room. It was nothing fancy—he couldn’t afford fancy. Even the cheap bottle of wine chilling by the bedside had been a splurge for him.

“I can’t wait to get you out of that dress.” He started toward his bride as she stood there in a long white gown with lace sleeves, the veil pinned in her short, dark hair.

“There’s a lot of buttons to undo. You may want to get started,” she said, giggling, turning around so he could see the tiny pearl buttons that started at her waist and continued up to the back of her neck.

He moved the veil aside, feeling the texture on his fingers. He could smell her flowery scent, her perfume, and he leaned down to kiss the side of her neck. He started working the tiny buttons one by one. “How many do you have on here, a hundred? Who makes these things, anyway?” He couldn’t believe the work he had to go through to get her out of this dress. “Someone with intent to torment a new husband, I bet.”

“Hmm, just unbutton already, would you?” she said and laughed again.

After he undid the last button, the gown pooled at her feet, and he turned her around, sucking in his breath as he took in her garters, lace underwear, and matching bra. They were sheer and completely indecent—perfect. “Wow, I think I’ve died and gone to heaven,” he said, and then she stepped back again, and the room dimmed, and Mary-Margaret was frowning.

“Joe, where are you?” she called out as she stepped back again.

“I’m here, baby, right here.”

He was on his back, looking up as he slowly awoke. His awareness hit first—the throbbing in his head, it just wouldn’t stop. Where was his wife? He shut his eyes again and breathed in something, some scent that had him confused. He opened his eyes.

He heard footsteps on concrete, across the room and coming closer. It was dim, and lights flickered in the background. Then Ayoud was beside the bed, looking down at him. His hands were clasped behind his back, and then someone else was there, another man, wearing the same dark pants, though he had a scarf around his head. He didn’t look Joe’s way.

Ayoud nodded to whatever the man said, at the same time watching Joe. He was a dangerous man who could hide everything he was thinking behind a steel wall.

Joe could read people well, but not this man.

“Ah, good. Lieutenant Commander, you’re awake.”

It all came back to Joe: Tucker was dead, and the same fate most likely faced him. That was the most terrifying thing of all, waiting and not knowing. The thought of never seeing his children, his wife again was all but eating him up. He had so much to say to them, so much to say to Mary-Margaret about what a fool he’d been.

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