Hot-Blooded by Karen Foley

Author:Karen Foley [Foley, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Category, It Takes A Hero
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-08-01T23:00:00+00:00

Didn’t want to wake you up, but not ready to say goodbye.Write to me, Elena.

He’d provided an e-mail address, and his signature was a bold slash of ink across the bottom of the note. The message was so much like him, direct and authoritative, that she had to smile.He hadn’t wanted to say goodbye.

The realization that he’d wanted to stay in touch with her caused a slow warmth to seep through her. She closed her fingers over the paper. Write to me, Elena. Which meant that his earlier hostility at seeing her on the base was from his own fears for her safety, and not because he didn’t want her around.

“Elena, are you sure you want to stay here for six months?” Sylvia’s voice interrupted her thoughts. “There’s room on that helicopter for you if you think you’d like to go home.”

Elena turned to the other woman with a smile. “Oh, no. I’m definitely going to stay. In fact, I’m really looking forward to it. But thanks.”

She gave Sylvia a brief hug and then hefted her backpack over her shoulder. Stepping outside into the cool darkness of predawn, she made her way to the lavatory facilities, but her thoughts were on Chase. He’d written the note believing he wouldn’t see her again, at least not so soon. But the fact that he’d given her his e-mail address and asked her to write to him was huge. She knew instinctively that he wasn’t the kind of guy to give his personal information out lightly.

Lost in her thoughts, she made her way past the other living quarters. The base was mostly quiet at this hour, although she could hear the lazy thwap-thwap of an idling helicopter over on the landing pad, and guessed it was Sylvia’s ride home.

She entered the showers and saw a row of changing stalls facing a wall of lockers. Beyond the locker room, she could hear the spray of water from the shower room itself, which meant she wasn’t going to have the privacy she’d hoped for. With a resigned sigh, she set her belongings in the closest stall and quickly undressed. Wrapping her towel around her, she grabbed the bottle of shampoo that Sylvia had given to her and padded over to the open shower room.

And stopped dead in her tracks.

A man stood beneath the spray of a single nozzle, steam wreathing his body. A supremely muscled, supremely naked man.

Chase.

All the saliva in Elena’s mouth evaporated at the sight of him. He stood with his back to her, his head bent as water sluiced down his body. He soaped himself, his hands moving over his chest and up under his arms, washing there before sliding lower, over his stomach. He was golden everywhere except for the paler skin of his hips and buttocks. Despite having seen him unclothed before, Elena greedily drank in the sight of him.

He was the most gorgeous man she’d ever seen, lean and hard, and his face…with his cheekbones and full, sensual mouth, he had a face that could make an angel weep.

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