It's Always Been You by Jessica Scott

Author:Jessica Scott [Scott, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Forever (Grand Central Publishing)
Published: 2014-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The door closed behind him. In the part of his brain that was still functioning, he heard the deadbolt click in the lock. Heard her keys hit the entryway table.

He’d followed her to her place. Letting her go, letting her get into her own vehicle had been fucking torture.

Because the riot he saw in her eyes made him step back from the ledge. He wanted her to be sure. Needed her to take that step toward him. Needed her to thread her fingers through his hair and kiss him. To remind him that this was okay. That it was okay for them to steal this quick moment of pleasure when everything was going to shit around them. He knew she was running from those packets, from work, from the cases that stood between them…

He wanted the same escape. Needed the human connection that would let him escape from the torment, the weight of the decisions he was supposed to make every single day.

The normalcy he felt right then was something he hadn’t felt since he’d been pulled into the commander’s office two weeks ago.

At that moment, he felt real and whole and alive.

There was no threat of abusing his power. No way to screw this up unless he underperformed.

He bit his lip, hard, needing the reminder that he could not screw this up. Something about her had drawn him to her, from that moment when he’d first plowed into her at the office.

She was fierce. She was loyal.

She was scarred.

* * *

The door closing was a finality. She could still change her mind. Still ask him to leave and keep her secrets, her scars to herself.

But Ben had trusted her. Tonight, it was her turn to trust him.

Fear slithered, cold and prickly, up her spine. She shivered, afraid to show him the physical reminders of her failure.

She hugged her arms around her waist, summoning her courage, shoving aside the doubt and the fear and the lingering insecurity that he would recoil from the marks on her body.

She felt the air stir as he stepped in front of her. Heat radiated off his body.

And then he cupped her face gently.

Urged her to open her eyes.

She tried to hide the fear, the uncertainty.

But one look in Ben’s eyes and she knew it was futile. Because he saw the truth she struggled so desperately to hide.

* * *

He didn’t know who had put the scars on Olivia Hale but they were there. He saw the ache in her eyes, saw the pain. He wanted to smooth that pain away but not if this wasn’t what she wanted.

Her lips curled as she stepped into his space, hooking her index finger beneath his uniform jacket and into his belt. His stomach jerked beneath her touch.

“You’re not getting cold feet, are you?” She lifted her face to his, rising up to press her lips to the edge of his. He nuzzled her lips gently.

“Wouldn’t dream of it,” he murmured against her mouth. He sucked on her bottom lip, cradling her face in his palms.

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