Soldier for Hire by Kimberly Van Meter

Author:Kimberly Van Meter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-09-13T15:23:32+00:00

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Xander tried to catch his breath as his heart hammered and his brain began to operate again.

He shouldn’t have caved.

It wasn’t right.

But he’d wanted to feel Scarlett in his arms again; it was all he’d been able to think about since that first night but he’d known it wasn’t going to happen.

Before getting framed and going on the run, Xander would’ve happily enjoyed an illicit relationship with his TL but that was child’s play in comparison to the obstacles in their way now.

And what had changed? Scarlett had been pretty clear in her stand that she wasn’t going to sleep with him again.

Of course, her change of heart would have to happen on the same day that he felt like a total piece of lying shit.

“Why do I get the feeling you’re going all deep and philosophical on me?” Scarlett teased, looking like a beautiful, savage warrior goddess with her sex-mussed red hair and flushed cheeks. She rolled to her side and nudged his shoulder. “If I promise to respect you in the morning, will that make you feel better?”

He chuckled. “Only if you buy me breakfast, too.”

“So much for the rumor that you were a cheap date,” she grumbled but followed with a genuine smile. “The sex was fantastic, by the way. And you were totally right—I needed that.” She sighed happily and returned to her back, her near-perfect breasts inviting his mouth for some more playtime. “Sometimes I wish I understood why I’m such a stickler for the rules. Breaking the rules is so much more fun.”

“Yeah, until you find yourself on the run, holed up in a shitty motel, chasing down impossible leads that inevitably turn out to be nothing.”

Her smile faded and she sat up, grabbing her shirt to slip it over her head. “Something is going to shake out,” she assured him, concern wrinkling her brow. “You can’t lose faith.”

“Faith is something I’ve never had in my supply shed.”

“Well, you’d better find some because I can’t carry you the whole way,” she said.

“I don’t want you to carry me,” he said. “I didn’t want you to stay at all. If you were smart, you’d distance yourself from me now. Hell, you should’ve done that from the start.”

“Where’s this coming from? Where the hell did you go this afternoon? You came back different.”

He wanted to sink to his knees and confess every dirty little secret he was harboring in his dark heart, but he couldn’t do that and it was tearing him in two. God, when did he turn into such a coward?

Two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, shot innumerable times during his tenure as a military man, and yet he’d never been more afraid than he was right now.

Wasn’t sex supposed to relax you?

He felt more tightly wound than ever.

“I’m just saying you should probably walk. I don’t want the responsibility of your screwed-up career because you chose to put your chips in with me. It’s looking like I’m a bad bet.”

“Jesus, Scott, I’ve never seen you so maudlin.

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