Hot SEAL by Lynn Raye Harris

Author:Lynn Raye Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: H.O.T. Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

She stood there with a world of pain in her eyes, and Dane felt like something was breaking inside him. He didn’t know what it was, but it hurt, which was surprising considering he’d thought his days of hurting over this woman were finished.

Apparently he’d been wrong. She still had the ability to gut him with her words—and he still had no idea how to fix it.

He wanted to say more. He searched his head for the words, but nothing would come. He knew from experience that there was no way to fix this. It wasn’t as simple as a few words, a new understanding. It was complex and had deep roots that he’d never been able to dislodge.

“It’s late. We should get a taxi,” he said.

Ivy didn’t look at him, and his heart kicked with fresh pain. Tell her she was enough for you, idiot.

But he couldn’t seem to do it. The words would sound hollow and she would know it. No matter how much he meant them, she wouldn’t believe.

Dane flagged a taxi on the main street and helped Ivy inside. Rather than shut the door and go around, he made her scoot over. He wasn’t taking any chances with leaving her alone and walking around to the other side, even though no one had followed them from the dock. He’d already fucked up enough tonight, and he had to get his head back in the game.

The ride to the resort didn’t take long. They didn’t speak along the way. Ivy turned her head and looked out the window, shutting him out. Dane clenched his hand into a fist and rhythmically thumped his leg.

This whole evening was a clusterfuck. What had he been thinking anyway? Taking her like that in an alley where anyone could stumble upon them? Where they could have been caught unaware by an assailant?

He hadn’t done the best job of protecting her then, had he?

All he’d meant to do was kiss her, but he should have known it wouldn’t end there. It couldn’t. When he and Ivy touched, the world faded. It had always been that way. He’d have thought he knew better by now, but in truth he was still pretty stunned that all he had to do was touch her and he lost his head.

He’d thought he had it under control in the bar. He’d touched and teased because he could, because he’d wanted to make her acknowledge there was still heat between them. He’d told her they were like a fireworks factory, but he’d known the whole time that he had control of the matches.

Huh, some control. He’d gotten just as burned as she had. And he’d forgotten everything while he’d done it—her safety, the mission, his career.

He paid the driver and they got out at the resort’s main building. It was nearly one o’clock in the morning, but there were still people at the open-air bar. Dane put his hand on the small of Ivy’s back and steered her down the path toward their bungalow.

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