Commanding Sia (NCIS Series Book 1) by Zoe Dawson

Author:Zoe Dawson [Dawson, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Moon Creative
Published: 2020-03-09T18:30:00+00:00

Chris snapped out of his reverie and stared at her. His eyes sharpened. He reached out and touched her cheek with the back of his hand, wiping away the telltale tears. He looked at the computer and gently closed it. The image of the jets winked out.

He wondered if his heart could take any more. If he could, as he had said so many times, move past this source of pain and guilt in his past, in her past. He wanted to let loose the feelings that were still locked up in his heart, but he was afraid of the consequences of her rejection.

And the sight of those two jets so close in the air. Milliseconds away from disaster. Facing death each time he jumped into his cockpit had been easier.

Easier than looking into Sia’s eyes and seeing her pain, her loss, seeing that she was holding on to something so desperately her knuckles were turning white. And deep down it hurt that she needed his exoneration, needed to have a reason to believe he wasn’t to blame for Rafael’s death.

And sometimes, he wondered if it really mattered. Rafael was dead. Dead and gone. But they were here, warm, living flesh. He wanted her. As unreasonable as it might seem, he wanted her. Still.

He went to pull his hand away, not sure if he could offer her any comfort she would accept. When her hand quickly rose to curl around his, his heart twisted with a painful longing that had been multiplying for six long years.

“Don’t,” she said softly.

He could feel the tremors in her as the tears fell freely from her eyes, and he wasn’t sure if they were now for Rafael or for all they had lost.

Her hand rose along his arm, to his shoulder as she leaned in closer to him. With a soft, low cry, her trembling lips met his, and then covered them, moving gently, sweetly.

Chris was drowning in hunger, fighting a need that rose swiftly, was banked ruthlessly. He didn’t want her to just react to him. A ragged sense of honor kept him motionless when instinct dictated he haul her into his arms. It was the memory of the pain in her eyes only a moment ago that kept him from giving in to those urges, which had shouted clearer than words that she was still conflicted about him.

Her mouth moved to his jaw, and he clenched it, hard, when her lips dragged over the stubble. His lungs pulled in the scent of her in a guilty, greedy swallow, and his muscles quivered with the force of his control.

She didn’t need this. The thought hammered in his head, keeping rhythm with the pulse in his veins. He didn’t know what drove her, but he knew she was vulnerable in a way she hadn’t allowed herself to be in a long time. Knew that even her well-worn defenses must have limits.

And, he had to admit, so did his.

And he was equally certain that, given time, they’d be firmly back in place.

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