Resisting Her Commander Hero by Lucy Ryder

Author:Lucy Ryder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-12-08T19:23:53+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

NATE SIGHED AND waited in resignation for her to state the obvious. He didn’t have to wait for more than a couple of beats.

“You’ve been shot?” Frankie accused, her voice rising. “You’ve been shot and you didn’t tell me?”

“It’s no big deal—” he began, only to become distracted by the luxurious length of her lashes and the way they made thick lacy curtains on her cheeks. He was so entranced by them it was a couple of seconds before he noticed that her moss green eyes had turned stormy.

Stormy and sexy and—

“You let me think it was a matter of you being clumsy,” she clipped out tersely, totally dispelling the idiotic vision growing inside his head. A vision that was far more dangerous than getting shot by modern-day pirates.

Nate blinked to dispel the sensual web she was weaving around him and sucked in air to clear his head because what the hell was he thinking?

“It’s no big deal,” he growled, lifting a hand to pinch the bridge of his nose. He was more annoyed at himself than at her and was starting to wish he’d never given in to the stupid impulse to come.

Before he could explain, a sleepy Paige appeared in the doorway. “What’s going on? I heard voices... Oh,” she said, spying him. “Hi, Nate.”

Grateful for the interruption, Nate turned his attention to the petite doctor. “Hey, Dr. P. How’s it going?”

She took in the sight of him sitting shirtless on the table, and Frankie standing with an alcohol swab in her hand looking like she was contemplating murder.

“Better than you apparently.” Her brow wrinkled as she wandered closer, going still when she saw his injury up close. “That’s a—” Her eyes widened as what she was seeing dawned on her. Her mouth dropped open and the sleepy look vanished. “You...you’ve been shot? What happened? Why didn’t you go to the ER?”

“See,” Frankie said curtly, jabbing a finger at him. “I’m not the only one who knows a gunshot wound when they see one.”

He grabbed her hand before she could drill him with a fingernail.

“I didn’t go to the ER because it’s no big deal,” he growled, wondering at the jumble of confusing emotions making him behave like an idiot who didn’t know the score. Especially the ones that urged him to pull Frankie close and prove just how okay he was. And maybe have those long-fingered hands slide all over his body.

Stunned by the abrupt need knifing through him, Nate dropped her hand and scrubbed a hand over his face, hoping to scrub away the images in his mind. Maybe he was just tired, because there was no way he was contemplating tangling with Frankie.

No way.

“I’ve had worse. A lot worse.”

His assurances did nothing to appease her. She looked ready to punch him. “Seriously, Nate,” she snapped, her eyes going all squinty, “now is not the time to remind me how much you like playing hero.”

He opened his mouth to deny he’d been a hero

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