High Reward by Brenna Aubrey

Author:Brenna Aubrey [Aubrey, Brenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military Romance
Publisher: Silver Griffon Associates
Published: 2018-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Ryan

Well that settled it. I was going to kill Keely. My hand closed around the hard tube of the binoculars, so tense I could probably crush the lenses if I focused just a little bit more. I’d spotted at least one van, a photographer and a vehicle with a satellite receiver on the roof. I’d been able to get close enough to overhear parts of their conversation and they were currently plotting ways to get up past the gate after dark.

Fortunately, they were still unsure which cabin inside the community that “Tyley” were staying at, but several paparazzi were pouring over a tablet that showed aerial satellite photos of the entire community. Time and process of elimination would have them peeking in the front windows in no time.

My recon involved checking out the cabin from all front-facing sides and I noted that Gray had pulled every last shade down against the brightly sunny day. That’s my clever girl.

I allowed myself the automatic thought for half a second before chastising myself for it. I was still thinking like this. Still. All these weeks later…

It wasn’t my right to think that way, and I hoped that my tendency to jump to those thoughts would ease up soon. But for the moment, I wasn’t going to worry about that. I just needed to figure out a fucking way to get through this weekend.

Her. And me. Under a small roof. In a gorgeous, romantic setting with no internet or TV service or anything else to divert us.

How the fuck was I going to keep my hands off of her?

Last night she’d looked so beautiful that it had been almost physically painful to keep my eyes off her. But I had. I’d been very good at resisting the temptation in public.

In private? I didn’t trust myself. I’d have to resolve not to speak with her or even spend time in the same room with her if it was avoidable.

And that fully-stocked mini-bar I’d spotted in the living room was calling out to me. But I couldn’t get drunk. That would make it worse. Because this gaping hole inside my chest—the one I’d been nursing for the past four weeks, would demand to be filled. And in certain cases, it would demand to be filled by any random warm body and soft pair of lips I could find.

The true danger was that inside that cottage wasn’t just any warm body or soft pair of lips. That body and those soft lips belonged to the only woman I currently wanted. The only one I wanted to hold. And as the weeks had gone by, that wanting had only gotten stronger, not weaker.

This was a shields-up, guard-up, locked-heart scenario. I’d already hurt her enough. More than I’d ever wanted to. No need to drive in the knife—for her or for me.

I’d keep it distant and professional, like I had been at work, in public, around all my friends. I could do this.

I slipped back into the garage, taking care to lock the door from the inside, then into the house, doing the same.

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