His Word: A CIA Military Romance by Monroe Lilian

Author:Monroe, Lilian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

19

Hailey

“What the hell are you doing here?” I pushed Freddy back against the door with both hands. He stumbled backward until his back hit the closed door. The fluorescent lights flickered above us. The nothingness that had come over me with Jayden was shattered like a pane of glass. Freddy took a hammer to my numbness, smashing it with one easy blow.

Emotion slammed into me like a punch to the gut and I pushed him back again, shoving him into the door again as hard as I could. He didn’t resist. His eyes were soft, and I hated that he wasn’t mad.

I was mad. Sad. Confused. I felt like throwing up but I never wanted him to leave.

“Hailey…”

“Stop.” I held up my hands, taking a step away from him. “Don’t say my name.” My foot caught on cleaning supplies behind me, and my arms flailed as I started to fall backward. Freddy jumped forward, wrapping his thick, strong arms around my waist and catching me before I went tumbling into a heap with the mop and bucket.

He was warm, and safe, and he smelled like comfort, sex, and manliness all wrapped into one. I hated him so much it hurt, and I didn’t hate him at all. My whole body was stiff in his arms, my eyes squeezed shut and my hands balled into fists.

Freddy pulled away from me slightly, forcing me to look up into his face. Light danced in his eyes as his lips tugged upward.

“Still as graceful as when we were kids, huh?”

“Shut up, Freddy,” I said, smacking his broad chest. I ducked my head to hide my face as a blush crept over my cheeks. I stepped back, disentangling myself from his embrace as the walls suddenly felt like they were closing in on me.

He was too close. He wasn’t close enough. I wanted to tangle my fingers into his hair and kiss him like my life depended on it, but I knew that it would be a slippery slope into certain heartbreak if I did.

I was fragile, broken, vulnerable.

And he was warm, comforting, electrifying.

Freddy’s green eyes searched mine as the air in the room hung heavily between us. I could feel the power of his gaze. He made a growl, deep in his chest, and it sent a zing of heat between my legs. He looked at me like I belonged to him, and I didn’t hate the feeling. I shook my head.

“What are you doing here?”

“We were watching the hotel and I saw you come in,” he said. His voice had a ring of truth to it, and I was relieved that he hadn’t been following me. “I needed to make sure you were all right.”

I nodded. “Okay. Why were you watching the hotel?”

“Hailey, these people… The Russos, Wei… They’re dangerous.”

“They want to buy my paintings. Gianni said he was introducing me to Liu Wei because he’d seen my work and wanted to commission four pieces.”

Freddy’s face twisted into a grimace and his hands squeezed into fists.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.