Maximum Force: A Career Soldier Military Romance by Tawdra Kandle

Author:Tawdra Kandle [Kandle, Tawdra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Career Soldier, Book 1
Publisher: Tawdra Kandle
Published: 2017-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Samantha

I didn’t remember getting out of the car and closing the door behind me, but there I was, standing on Max Remington’s postage stamp-sized front porch as he unlocked the door to his townhouse. I noticed that his hand shook a little, and somehow, that made me feel better.

He turned the knob, and the door swung open.

“After you.” He didn’t touch me at all, but as I passed close to his body, I swore I felt heat coming from him. Distracted, I nearly tripped over the threshold.

“Whoa there.” He caught my elbow and stepped inside behind me, shutting the door and turning the lock.

“Sorry. First day on the new feet.” We’d come inside directly into a high-ceilinged great room, and I stopped, turning in a slow circle. “Wow. This is gorgeous.”

“Thanks.” He jingled his keys in his hands and then dropped them into a wooden bowl on a long rough-hewn table. “I bought it as an investment when I was stationed here, but I have to say, I’m going to miss it when I’m rotated out.”

The casual way with which he spoke of moving away squeezed at my heart, but I ignored that for the moment. “Did you decorate it yourself?”

“I had some help from my mom and my sister, but the main ideas were mine.” He stuck his hands back into his pockets as I’d seen him do before. I wondered if that was his go-to move when he was nervous. Or maybe he wasn’t nervous. Maybe that was just me.

“It’s really beautiful,” I repeated. “It looks like something from out of a magazine.”

“Thanks. Do you, um, want a tour?” He stood a few feet away from me, leaning on the back of the sofa, looking so uncertain that suddenly my own jitters were washed away.

“No.” I shook my head. “No, I really don’t.” I advanced on him, stepping closer until I could feel his breath warm on my face. “There’s only one thing I want to explore here.” I laid my hands flat on his chest, reveling when it rose quickly under my touch. Keeping my gaze steady on his, I slid my palms lower until they rested on his stomach. He inhaled sharply, and I wiggled my fingers just enough to feel the shape of the steel muscles under the soft cotton of his gray T-shirt. “You look different in regular clothes. Less official, and less . . . scary, I guess. But even yesterday, in whatever that camo suit you were wearing is called—”

“BDUs.” His voice was rough. “Battle Dress Uniform. That’s what I was in yesterday.”

“Right. BDUs. Even in that, I could see how built you are. I wanted to touch you here and see if I was right about how you’d feel under my hands.”

“Samantha.” His fingers circled my wrists, not forcing me away but not allowing my hands to travel further, either. “If we . . . are you sure about this? You only met me yesterday. We could . . . I don’t know.

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