Debt of Loyalty: A Rough Romance (Eagle Force Book 2) by Piper Stone

Author:Piper Stone [Stone, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 2022-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Willow

Crack! Boom!

The storm was intense, the gale force winds howling through the trees. While the house he’d built could withstand a tropical storm, that didn’t mean the rolling thunder and flashes of lightning didn’t bother the hell out of both of us.

I could tell the storm troubled him for more reasons than just the possibility the house could be penetrated with water. When he’d talked about his scar, I’d sensed even that memory had brought up ugliness from whatever had occurred in the war. After he’d saved my life again, he’d retreated into the brooding man from the beginning, barely saying two words to me.

Except that I needed a spanking.

As I stood at the window, I almost laughed as I thought about how seriously he’d said the words. Maybe he was right.

“Come to bed,” he said from behind me.

“I’m too wired. I don’t like the storm.”

Santiago snorted. “Neither do I.”

“Would you really spank me for almost falling?”

“Not for falling but for disobeying me.”

His tone was even darker than before, the thrill of hearing the rich inflections driving tingling vibrations straight into my pussy. As soon as another flash of lightning jetted across the sky, I could tell he bristled. When he turned away from the window, I moved toward him, refusing to let him go without telling me what he’d gone through.

“Talk to me, Santiago. I might be nobody to you, but sometimes talking to a stranger helps.”

He took a deep breath, rubbing his jaw as the thunder rumbled in the distance. “It’s not a pretty story.”

“I don’t care. What I do care about is the fact the memory is eating you alive.”

“There are reasons.”

“Tell me. Trust me enough to do that.”

“It’s not about trust, Willow,” he said as he shifted around to face me. “It’s about allowing the memory to exist in the present.”

“Maybe that’s the only way to deal with them in order to finally let the past go.”

“You’re one smart lady.”

“Did you ever stop to think I might care about you?”

Santiago exhaled, shaking his head. “I’m not certain why you do.”

“Maybe because you saved my life three times. And just maybe because I find you fascinating.”

I thought for certain he was going to ignore me, ordering me to stop making insinuations. When he started to speak, I could barely hear him, forced to move closer so I could also read his lips.

“I was with two teams. We’d gotten a tip a group of insurgents were planning on trying to hijack one of the outlying bases. We rolled in to help, expecting stragglers and nothing more. However, we couldn’t fly in, instead using tanks, which we all hated. We hadn’t seen enemy activity in over twenty days, a possible cease fire in effect. We should have known the bastards had other plans. It started to pour. Then the generators were hit, shoving us into complete darkness. Within minutes we were surrounded. We used our tanks to try and create a perimeter, but there were dozens of the bastards, which hadn’t been on our intel.

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