Polar Reaction by Thompson Claire

Author:Thompson, Claire [Thompson, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781605044620
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2009-03-02T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

At first no one reacted to the sound. Jamie was the first to move. It was only reluctantly that Brendan tore his gaze from Tuck’s handsome face. If he’d had his choice, he would have lain there forever, just staring at its planes and contours, committing each feature to memory.

But the phone was ringing.

The phone was ringing!

Jamie, already halfway across the room, hurtled toward the card table, on which the cell phone was jangling. “Jamie Hunter.” He held his breath, listened and nodded, turning wide, excited eyes toward the other two.

“Yes. Yes, excellent. Okay. Keep us posted. We’ll be ready. Thank you. Oh, God, thank you so much.” There were tears in Jamie’s eyes. He stood naked, the cell phone in his hand, his hair wild and hanging in his face.

“They’re coming. They said the worst is over. The winds have died down enough to get a helicopter over from McMurdo Air Force Base. They have a cargo plane there that can take us to New Zealand. We’re really lucky because they’re closing down in a few days. If this blizzard had kept it up a while longer, we’d be spending a long, dark winter in this godforsaken place.”

The incredibly sensual, hot mood seemed to chill and evaporate like so much ice vapor in the wind. Tuck was moving quickly, pulling on underwear and reaching for his jeans. “When are they coming? How long do we have?”

“They hope within the hour. They’ll call again to make sure we can get out of the building.”

Brendan sat up, the sensual net that had been thrown over him burning away at last as he absorbed the full implications of what was going on. It was over. They were being rescued. They would all be going home. Tuck and Jamie to California, he back to Washington State.

“Come on, Bren.” Tuck’s tone was affectionate but there was urgency beneath it. “Get your sexy ass moving. We’ve got to pack what we can fit in rucksacks, shut down the generator, bundle ourselves up and see if we can’t get outside again. As hot as you look lying there butt naked, we’ve got to get cracking.”

Brendan stood abruptly. Tuck was right. There was a lot to do. They wouldn’t want to keep a hovering helicopter waiting. He headed to the bathroom. He would have liked to shower, but settled for splashing water over his face and chest.

Jesus, had that really happened? In light of the impending rescue, Brendan couldn’t decide how he felt. Looking at himself in the mirror as he dried his face, he shook his head. He wasn’t gay. He couldn’t be falling in love with another man. Or, for that matter, two men. Could he?

Okay, so maybe he was bi. Or bi-curious. Yes, that was more accurate, and being a scientist, naturally he wanted to be accurate, even where emotions and sexuality were concerned. Only, if he were honest, his curiosity wasn’t satisfied—not by a long shot.

Yet surely it was only because of

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