Never Mine: A Base Branch Novella (Titan World) by Megan Mitcham

Author:Megan Mitcham [Mitcham, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781941899281
Publisher: Titan World LLC
Published: 2017-01-23T18:30:00+00:00

7

If she didn’t touch Callum again, she could walk away and only feel like half a traitor. Right?

Who was she kidding? Jillian had labeled herself a traitor by lunchtime the day of the first dream, when the images of Callum thrusting deep inside her refused to wash away with the passing hours of daylight.

Jillian gazed out the wall of windows at the colors the setting sun painted on the blue waterfront. She should be surveilling the restaurant for an opening, so they could slip into the back without drawing attention to themselves. The problem was every time she turned her eyes into the room, they immediately sought the object of her many dreams.

“You look stunning.” Callum drew her in with a perfectly fitting comment. Sitting across the dimly lit table from him—a warrior decked out in a suit and tie—was a turn of events she struggled to process.

“I am stunned,” she quipped.

Jared had wanted them to look inconspicuous in the five-star establishment. The guy hadn’t a clue the level of restraint he asked of her.

“Why?”

“Why do you have to ask such simple yet astonishingly complex questions?”

“Part of my charm.” He shrugged, refilled her half-drunk glass of wine, and gulped his water.

“Are you trying to get me drunk? It’s bad for business. Remember, that’s why we’re here,” she whispered.

“Is it?” Callum’s smirk unbuttoned something inside her. It had come out to play so rarely in the last year.

“Yes.” She took a too-heavy sip from her goblet.

“I don’t buy it.” He lifted a hand before she could retort and continued. “I want to know why you ran halfway across the globe.”

His dark suit matched his dark eyes and urged her to tell all. He had that effect on her. Anything he wanted, she wanted to give him, and she wasn’t that kind of girl. Military life excluded, men didn’t order her around. Never had. Never would.

Her palms dampened as she remembered his commands. ‘Eyes on me. Feel me. Come for me.’

Jillian drew a stilted breath. “She was my friend, and I looked at her husband and saw something I wanted.”

Goodness, but the truth—if only half of it—leaving her lungs made the next breath easier than the million before it. He reached across the table, but she couldn’t let him touch her. When he touched her, she forgot the reasons they couldn't be together, the reasons why they’d never work.

“She was my wife, and I look at her friend, and I see something I want.”

Her heart thundered in her ears. Callum’s gaze held steadily, his jaw taut. “We’re not doing anything wrong. I’ll continue to tell you that until you believe it. Amery was in our lives, and we were loyal to her. She’s not in our lives anymore.”

And that was the crux of it.

“What would have happened if she hadn’t died that day?” Jillian hated the question because she couldn't change what had happened. She’d tried every way she knew how—crying, begging, hoping, and praying.

“You would have continued to be her friend and I her husband.

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