Fall Out by Zoe York

Author:Zoe York [York, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: military romance, romance series, SEAL
Publisher: ZoYo Press
Published: 2014-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

He couldn’t bring himself to leave her alone. He should head up top and talk to Rik, but instead he sat on the tiny bench in the kitchenette, watching Annie sleep. Worried she’d have another nightmare, he told himself, but it felt like something more base. Something selfish.

He waited for Kevin’s voice to interject, but his buddy wasn’t going to cut him off this time.

Because he didn’t need to be cock-blocked. He could do that all by himself.

He wasn’t noble. Fuck, no. He wanted to strip Annie down to her birthday suit and feast on her body. It wouldn’t be one-sided and he’d feed her soul in the only way he knew how. But making it good in the moment wouldn’t be worth anything in the cold light of morning.

And after a few nights? It would be too damn easy to pretend their connection wasn’t a cruel combination of chemistry and adrenaline and nostalgia.

For a few minutes on the plane, Drew had lost sight of that reality.

But he just didn’t have the capacity to love inside him. To serve? Absolutely. To protect? With his life. To love? He didn’t even know what that would look like. But he was pretty sure it wasn’t possible with a guy who could get on a plane and disappear for six months without a backward glance.

He knew what it was like to be abandoned. He’d never want to do that to someone he cared about. And since leaving wasn’t optional--that was his life--attachment couldn’t happen.

He’d keep her safe until she could return to her life of innocent scholarship. And until then...it was time for some distance. Polite boundaries. And a cold shower or three. Because he couldn’t—wouldn’t—be this mopey guy.

Not even if being with Annie made him feel bigger, stronger than he had in months. He wouldn’t use her like that, and he couldn’t risk the flip side of that attachment. Emotional entanglement and Drew Castle didn’t mix.

Twenty minutes passed by the time he joined Rik, who wisely kept the conversation focused on the threat.

“While you were in the air, I transferred what I’d already discovered this morning to our secure servers. I have a guy--”

“Rik, I trust you. I don’t know your guys.”

“I’d trust Trent McTavish with my life. With Calli’s life. He was SAS for ten years. Has a younger brother with significant medical expenses, so he went private. But he’s one of the good guys. He and Jackson Sutter make up the--” He raised his voice to grab his wife’s attention. “Calli! What do you call Jackson and Trent?”

A trill of laughter carried toward them. Instead of yelling back, the dark haired beauty stood and sashayed over. Drew watched as she wound her limbs around her husband. She was warm and gracious toward Drew, but her voice took on a unique huskiness when she answered Rik. “The dynamic duo. They’re like oil and water, a Scotsman and a Texan, but they’ve bonded like brothers.”

Drew couldn’t keep the surprise out of his voice.

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