SEAL Protector (Brothers In Arms Book 2) by Leslie North

Author:Leslie North [North, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-04T18:30:00+00:00

9

When Vann had mentioned doing wicked things to her earlier, Mercy had imagined all sorts of naughty erotic stuff. Never in a million years had she pictured this—floating alone in an inflatable raft in the middle of a rushing river with no paddle and no way to reach the shore. The river wasn’t super deep, maybe three or four feet Vann had told her, but the currents were strong and could easily sweep her away if she wasn’t careful, so wading was out.

Had she mentioned she hated water? Cause yeah, she did.

“What am I supposed to do here?” she yelled to Vann who watched her from the shore.

“Learn to think fast, trust yourself and your abilities,” he shouted back.

Nice. This was so not turning out to be her day. Not turning out to be her week, or even her month, honestly. Whatever fantasies she’d had about her and Vann perhaps spending a few quiet days together getting to know each other, perhaps talking about what had happened between them the other night and deciding where to go from there, were dead in the water—pun intended.

Because dead in the water was exactly where she’d be right now if this scenario were actually the real thing. God, at least her brothers couldn’t see her now. Bad enough they’d humiliated her countless times on family vacations to their nearby lakeside cottage. Her brothers were all accomplished swimmers and divers. Mercy had taken classes too, but then her brothers had taken her out one day and dumped her in the middle of the lake and ditched her, way too far for her to swim back on her own. She’d been traumatized ever since. Yeah, her parents already hypervigilant over her had only gotten worse since then. Maybe their actions were understandable given that she’d been a preemie baby—born small and with many health problems she’d eventually outgrown, thankfully—but still.

Fat lot of good living in a bubble had done her now.

Soaked to the bone and shivering wasn’t necessarily her best look and she’d really wanted to impress Vann this time.

Dammit, dammit, dammit.

“Do something for Christ’s sake, Mercy!” Vann shouted, his tone growing more impatient. “If you just sit there like that you’ll only get shot or die of sun exposure.”

Teeth gritted, she searched around the raft for something she could use to pull herself to shore. All that was in the boat with her was what she’d had on her at the time Vann had tossed her in here and shoved the boat off the shore with his foot, which consisted of nothing but the clothes on her back.

“More realistic,” he’d said, waving as she’d drifted farther and farther away.

She may or may not have flipped him off.

Mature? No. Satisfying? Oh hell yes.

She didn’t even have her watch on, so she had no idea what time it was. Given the sun’s position low in the west and the lengthening shadows, however, it must be getting pretty close to sunset now. Which meant Mercy had been splashing around out here God knew how long.

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