High Risk by Brenna Aubrey

Author:Brenna Aubrey [Aubrey, Brenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military Romance, Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Silver Griffon Associates
Published: 2018-10-10T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Ryan

I had to admit, I more than enjoyed the car ride to the restaurant with Gray’s slight body pressed against mine. There definitely should have been enough room for the three of us in the back seat of that car. We didn’t have to push up so close to each other, but I didn’t care. Kirill had peered back at us from his front seat—the bastard. He’d grinned and muttered quietly to me in Russian when he noticed the same thing. “Cozy.”

Gray looked more fetching than ever tonight, much younger than even her twenty-five years. She wore a white sleeveless blouse and a long dusty-pink skirt that floated around her ankles when she walked, giving a peek of glittery sandals underneath.

And in the back of that car, I’d taken advantage of the situation and got my share of that strawberry scent of hers. The only thing it made me want was more—more feeling her body against mine, more heavenly smell. Even more of the rushed clicking of her unique heartbeat.

That teasing I’d dished out to her today at the Center with the kid? That was nothing to what she was in for tonight. Getting out of the car, I held the door for her and Keely, trying to suppress a wicked grin of anticipation.

But as we entered the restaurant, it didn’t take long to see that things were not going to go as I had anticipated. My first clue was the sign at the entrance indicating that the bar and accompanying section of the restaurant were closed down for a “Private Party.”

And I’d hoped, though I knew better, that my group of half-dozen close friends had not morphed into a horde of folks from NASA. That happened all too often, and I should have known better. Once word got out, gatherings like this grew like strings of particles in a chemical chain reaction. Houston was a big town, but the smaller NASA community in Clear Lake and the surrounds was close-knit.

I stopped and stared at the sign, overwhelmed by the urge to turn around and blow Dodge. Kirill’s shoulder nudged mine, and I looked up. His expression was somber as he nodded to me then moved into the restaurant. “Let me go see what that’s all about.”

The women stood on each side of me, Keely’s eyes scanning the room. Gray took Kirill’s place beside me, her eyes on my tense shoulders before flicking up to meet my gaze. “How can I help?”

Not, how’s it going. Not, is there anything wrong. No.

She’d perceived those things immediately in the half minute I’d had to react to this new development. Putting her hand on my upper arm, she narrowed her eyes and I tensed. I’ve got your back, she’d said, and I’d been so quick to blow her off.

I’d been skeptical, of course. Like she didn’t even understand, fully, what it meant to have my back. The most astonishing thing about her statement was the way I’d responded. With hope that she meant it.

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