Sniper's Pride by Megan Crane

Author:Megan Crane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

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It could have been days before Mariah came back to herself. Years, maybe. She was surprised to find Griffin stretched out there on the bed beside her, more astonishingly perfect than she’d imagined.

All the lights were still on, so she indulged herself, turning on her side and letting her gaze trace over him. His beautiful brown skin was like satin to the touch, and he had what she instantly determined to be the perfect amount of hair dusting his chest, then starting again below his navel. He lay with one arm beneath his head, and she didn’t know how she knew when he shifted to alertness, because he didn’t move.

One moment his eyes were closed, the next they were open. And on her.

She could have felt shy, maybe even awash in regrets, but she didn’t. Maybe that would come later, when she had time to process this.

But she doubted it.

She reached over and traced a tight ridge sculpted into his abdomen, and took it as a triumph when he didn’t tense.

“How long has it been since you last let yourself lose control?” she asked.

She felt his gaze on her like a new heat. “There are a lot of ways of losing control. Are you talking about my temper? Do you want to know the last time I let myself get mad?”

“If that’s what comes to mind as you lie here naked, in bed with a woman. Sure. Let’s talk about your temper.”

“The last time I lost my temper was when my fiancée and my best friend informed me that, really, they would rather be married to each other than have anything to do with me.”

He propped himself up on one hand and faced her. And his gaze was no less intense than it had ever been, but this was different.

It took Mariah a moment to realize that there was no trace of iciness in there. At all.

“Ouch,” she said, noting that he didn’t seem particularly messed up about it. She suspected that meant it had happened a long time ago. “Is that the last time you had sex?”

His mouth curved. “I spent a good while making my own bad decisions.”

“I’d say you were entitled to some bad decisions.”

He reached over, a look of intense concentration on his face, and traced his own trail between her breasts, then lower. He grinned with pure male satisfaction when she shivered in reaction.

“I’ve never found that entitlement gets anyone very far. What starts with entitlement ends in excuses. I decided I didn’t want either.”

“No entitlements, no excuses.” She studied his face. “But you’re okay with me being the enemy?”

“I don’t think you’re the enemy. Not my enemy, anyway.”

“Are you sure?”

Griffin sighed. He reached over and took hold of her, rolling until she was sprawled across his chest, and then held her there until she settled. She was unnerved by his casual strength, and if she was honest, fascinated by it. She piled her hands beneath her chin and gazed at him, trying not to think too much about how intimate this was.

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