Encounter with a Commanding Officer by Charlotte Hawkes

Author:Charlotte Hawkes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Medical Romances
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

SOMETHING WAS DIFFERENT.

Fliss’s heart was beating so madly that it felt as though a jackhammer was assaulting her chest the entire journey to the hotel.

His arm might still be around her shoulders, his hard body almost glued to hers on the hot car seats, but mentally Ash was pulling away from her. And she had a fair idea why.

She’d broken their agreement.

She hadn’t intended to. But there it was. She’d forgotten the just sex part of it and was at serious risk of falling for Ash. And he must know it. It explained why he was trying to distance himself emotionally.

She wanted to put it down to her inexperience with casual flings, but deep down she was afraid it was more than that. It wasn’t the unfamiliar act of a one-night stand which was confusing her, but more the unique man sitting tantalisingly close to her. The one who had made her forget her surroundings back up on that hillside, who had made her forget all her usual rules and codes, and forget herself. When he’d played her body with such skill and finesse that it had thrummed with pleasure. When he’d peeled away the armour she’d spent decades melding for herself, and shown her how to live in that one breathtaking moment. And when he’d laced his fingers through hers and dropped a kiss on her soft knuckles as if he really cared about her.

She’d forgotten all her rules and she’d let herself imagine something more with him. But when she came back down to earth she would remember that neither of them had room in their lives for that. If she was going to salvage tonight then she needed to convince him he had misunderstood, that she wasn’t really thinking with her heart instead of her head. She needed to convince him that it was only about the sex for her too.

Because the alternative was that Ash would call it a night now rather than risk any unwanted further entanglement. And Fliss suddenly suspected that no other man was ever going to get under her skin the way Ash had, and if she didn’t indulge in this one night of wanton abandon with him then she would regret it for the rest of her life.

Somehow, she had to make Ash believe that she did actually know what she was doing.

Even if she didn’t.

Suppressing her nerves, Fliss twisted her body around to his and forced herself to sound confident as she leaned in to whisper in his ear. ‘This journey is taking way too long.’

‘We’ll be back soon.’

Ash pulled his lips into a tight line, but Fliss was determined not to be dismissed. She dipped her head so that her lips were skimming the soft dip by his ear.

‘Not soon enough,’ she murmured, deliberately letting one hand drop onto his thigh. High enough that her desire was clear, but low enough so that it would pique his interest.

At least, she hoped it would. This was about

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