Delta Force Defender by Megan Crane

Author:Megan Crane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Isaac chose not to point out that they’d never shared a meal before. He figured she might stab him with her fork.

When they were done, they actually sat there and talked. Like regular people.

He saw the exact moment that occurred to her.

And watched, fascinated, as she stiffened. He would have said he knew every expression that could possibly cross her pretty face, but it took him a moment to place the one that flashed there for a long, telling moment. Panic.

It was a relief when she scowled at him.

“You need to go away now,” she said, sounding like herself again. Not the warm, pliable woman who’d been in his bed, but the sharp-edged, hot-eyed pain in his butt. Good thing he had a powerful need for both sides of her. “I need to clean this kitchen, to my satisfaction, not yours.”

Her clear implication was that he, a career marine officer, could not maintain a kitchen to her standards.

“You remind me of my drill sergeant,” he said. When her scowl deepened, he laughed. “That’s a compliment.”

She rolled her eyes as she stood, then swept up their plates. “Good-bye.”

Cranky. Grouchy. That scowl in place. Just the way he liked her.

“You know I don’t need you to cook and clean for me,” he said as he got to his feet, watching her move with that efficient grace that had been getting to him for far too long now. “That’s not a requirement.”

She snorted. “If you needed me to, I wouldn’t do it. And if it was a requirement, I’d burn your cabin down.”

“Still.”

Caradine dropped the plates and utensils with a great clatter into his sink. She did not turn to face him. “Isaac. If you say one word about my true heart, I will walk out of this cabin and drown myself in the cove.”

“I think that’s unlikely.”

“I will take that cast-iron skillet off your wall and relieve you of your kneecap.”

“You already tried to shoot me in the knee. You missed. I feel like the odds are in my favor.”

She turned then, her scowl much deeper and her blue eyes a dark warning that bounced around inside him and felt a whole lot like joy.

“Don’t you have work to do?” she demanded. “Wrongs to right and worlds to save?”

“Usually.”

Her brows rose. “And here I thought that was who you were. In charge of every last thing every second of the day and night, so there isn’t a single moment of downtime. Don’t let me interrupt your long career of overcompensation and workaholic anxiety.”

That punch landed, and he could tell she knew it, so he left her to her mutterings at his sink.

He went out to his study and checked in. And he didn’t forget that Caradine was in his cabin. He was aware of her moving around in the kitchen, then stalking off to take a shower. He monitored what needed his attention, made sure no new information had come in while he was otherwise occupied, and sent out a raft of responses and new orders.

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