Over the Edge by Suzanne Brockmann

Author:Suzanne Brockmann
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9785551154860
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2009-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Sam Starrett was not going to be the first to leave the pool.

He was hungry, he was tired, but until Alyssa Locke walked her perfect ass out of there, he was staying right where he was.

If he worked really hard at it, he could pretend that it had nothing to do with the fact that she was wearing a bathing suit or his realization that this was the closest to her being naked that he was going to get, probably for the rest of his life.

Damn, she was gorgeous.

And she was going to dinner tonight with Rob Pierce. The British motherfucker.

Alyssa came out of the pool, adjusting her bathing suit in a way that made him want to scream. Sam let himself watch her from his lounge chair, wishing he weren’t so goddamn tired. He was too tired to be angry with her, too tired to feel much but sorry for himself for being the pathetic loser she’d had sex with and then rejected.

“Congratulations on being sent out here as an observer,” Sam told her as she dried her face on her towel.

She looked at him suspiciously, as if waiting for him to add a but and an insult.

“That’s all,” he said. “Just congratulations.”

“Yeah,” she said, “it’s been kind of obvious that you’re thrilled for me.”

He deserved that one. “Actually, I am. Your career’s going great. I’m ... I am thrilled for you. I just wish I could be thrilled for you while you observed someone else’s takedown of a plane in some other country.”

She sat down on the edge of the chair next to his, where she’d tossed her sweats and sunglasses. “Word in my office is that this observation thing is the precursor to a permanent transfer to Max Bhagat’s A-team.”

Sam knew what she was telling him. The SEALs in Team Sixteen’s Troubleshooters Squad worked with Bhagat’s top team all the time. “Gee,” he said. “Maybe we should just go steady. I mean, since we’re going to be seeing each other so often ...”

“Right.” She stood up. “Excuse me for thinking you were capable of carrying on a serious conversation.”

Sam stood up, too. “How am I supposed to react to that news, Alyssa?” God, he’d thought it was bad when he didn’t see her—he thought he’d go crazy from missing her so fucking much. But it turned out that was nothing —nothing—compared to being around her and not being able to touch her, not being able to talk to her, to make her laugh, to make love to her. Another few days of this and they’d have to cart him off in a straitjacket. “Are you going to be happy about working with me around most of the time? Can you really be around me and not—”

Want me. He stopped himself from saying it, aware of how egotistical it sounded. But he didn’t mean it that way.

She didn’t answer. Instead she jumped him.

It was the dead last thing he’d ever expected. He was completely unprepared, and she hit

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