Delta Force: Colt: Brotherhood Protectors WorldWayward Souls Crossover by Kris Norris & Brotherhood Protectors World

Author:Kris Norris & Brotherhood Protectors World [Norris, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Page Press LLC
Published: 2019-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I want you to climb into the bed? Grind me into it?

Your move, soldier?

Was she high? Had someone slipped her an aphrodisiac? Spiked her damn coffee? Hypnotized her? Because of all the things Ellis had planned to say to Brett, make love to me hadn’t been on the list.

It wasn’t a secret she’d been off all night. Between confronting Brett, getting hunted by assassins, having Six take a bullet for her, not to mention having to make peace with the fact she was putting the few people she’d ever cared about in harm’s way—she’d been struggling to hold it all together. Maintain her usual calm.

Then, Brett had stepped in. Gotten up in her face, insisted she rest. And it hadn’t been his words that had set her off—his Freudian slip—but the way he’d said it. The same tone he’d used all those months they’d been together. When, she’d get lost in a job—lose track of time. Forget to eat or sleep. He’d always been the voice of reason. The one to pick her up and carry her to bed. Or bring her a plate of food. A cup of coffee. Watch out for her well-being.

She hadn’t been prepared for the punch of emotion. All the memories that had surfaced, the need that had burned beneath her skin. And she’d reacted the only way she knew how.

She’d struck out.

Ellis wasn’t proud of it. Hadn’t really planned on hurting him, but after five years of pretending to be someone new—someone cold and detached—getting emotional over Brett had scared her to the bone.

He’d taken it stride. Had been prepared to take a beating if that’s what she’d needed, all to make up for the past. For his failings. But the more she examined it all in her head—recited that fucking note over and over because she remembered every word. Every horrible, criminal word on that paper—the more she realized she was as much to blame. That she should have talked to him about his father. Let him know she didn’t care. That she knew the kind of man Brett was.

She hadn’t realized how much it tormented him. How deep the scars went until he’d looked at her in utter disbelief that she’d known and hadn’t cared.

But letting go of everything wasn’t nearly as easy as jumping back into bed. Sex—that made sense. Was a physical connection they both obviously wanted. Needed. A by-product of the adrenaline rush and resulting dump. Having to deal with Six getting hurt, Ellis baring her soul… It was a pleasurable solution to all their problems.

Except where she doubted it would be just sex. Not for her.

Brett closed his eyes, nostrils flaring, jaw clamped shut. He took a few rough breaths through his clenched teeth, then looked at her. Really looked. Face leaning in close, eyes narrowed and focused on her. He didn’t move, didn’t seem to breathe as he sat there, slowly breaking down her walls with nothing more than those blue eyes fixed on her.

She was pinned.

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