Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Burning Desire (Kindle Worlds Novella) (Fire Protection Specialists Book 1) by Jen Talty

Author:Jen Talty [Talty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-11-04T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 5

LEXI STARED INTO ACE’S eyes as the reality of the situation sunk in. “She’s really home.”

“Shit.” He jumped out of bed so quickly he tripped over the tangled bedspread and fell to the floor.

She covered her mouth to stifle the fit of laughter that erupted from her lips.

“Not funny,” he mumbled as he hiked up his pants and looked around the room. “Where’s my shirt?”

“It’s downstairs, remember?”

“Right.”

“Just get down there before my mother gets to the porch. I’ll be down shortly.”

“What do I say about where you are?” He glanced between her and the window. His eyes wide with a confused glow.

“That I’m changing out of my dirty clothes.”

“That works.” He turned, heading for the door, but paused. “I’m sorry that ended as abruptly as it did. I’m usually the kind of guy who enjoys a good cuddle afterward. Maybe next time.”

She swallowed as he disappeared, the sound of his feet hitting the floorboards beat with her pounding heart.

What the hell had she just let happen?

One minute she’s arguing with a control freak, the next minute she’s got her mouth where it doesn’t belong.

Her ex had been a power-driven prick in business and he turned out to be that way in their relationship, though she rarely put up with it. She’d been a free spirit most of her life, doing what she wanted, when she wanted to and not worrying too much about what others thought. That strong personality is what helped her get the hell out of this sleepy little sea-side town.

But that drive and determination that went with it facilitated the demise of a career she ended up resenting, and a boyfriend she didn’t like, bringing her back home and into the arms of a stranger who gave her the most incredible burning desire to take a chance on him.

And her hometown.

No!

The idea that Ace thought there could be a next time sent a heat wave across her skin.

This had to go down as the dumbest, most reckless thing she’d ever done next to the day she and a few friends climbed onto one of the customer’s million dollar yachts and partied like rock stars her senior year of high school.

That didn’t end well, and she suspected whatever this thing with Ace is wouldn’t end well either.

Besides, he was still pinning after a dead girl.

Hearing the front door slam shut, she slinked out of bed, her thigh and foot throbbed, while her body, drenched in the after effects of sex, tingled with unadulterated passion.

“Lexi, honey?” her mother’s voice bellowed up the stairs.

“I’m coming.” Lexi sucked in a deep breath as she ran her fingers through her hair, making sure it was smooth and didn’t look like she’d just gotten out of bed. She took tentative steps, telling herself it was because her wounds hurt, but the reality was, she didn’t want to face the man downstairs.

Her mother greeted her at the bottom of the steps with open arms. “Come here, little one.”

Lexi rolled her eyes. God, how

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