The Awakening: Britton (Entangled Covet) by Abby Niles

Author:Abby Niles [Niles, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cop, enemies to lovers, aidan, shapeshifter, paranormal romance, reunited, shifter, soulmate, liam
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-11-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Val dumped a can of Beefaroni into a bowl, then shoved it into the microwave as she tried to calm her racing heart. Unfortunately, her mind kept rewinding to just a few minutes ago, when Britton had his hand locked around the back of her neck, his lips an inch away from hers, his breath warming her mouth…and the damned organ started hammering against her breast again.

Britton had almost kissed her.

Not once, but twice today.

And both times, against her better judgment, she’d wanted him to.

The first time he’d pulled away. The second time, he’d hesitated, and that had given her the strength to pull away.

She understood his indecision. They’d always wanted to rip each other’s throats out, not rip each other’s clothes off. However, she was damn close to grabbing some T-shirt and yanking. Fighting this attraction was becoming exhausting. No, she didn’t want to be just another one of his many women, but she did want him.

She’d finally faced that fact in the hot tub. The man had worn boxer briefs for Dea’s sake. The material had hugged every manly curve of his impressive package, and when he’d caught her gawking, that package had started to rise for an official greeting.

Oh, yeah, she wanted the blasted the man.

The microwave dinged. She grabbed the bowl and walked to the table. She’d just put a forkful of the pasta in her mouth when Britton’s cell phone rang at the end of the table. But he was still in the bedroom. Was it someone from the PD? She craned her neck to peer at the screen.

“Olivia Johnson.” The pretty fingerprint analyst from the PD.

Val’s stomach twisted with a shocking amount of jealousy.

He opened the bedroom door. Just like the other night, she couldn’t drag her eyes away from how the henley hugged his chest and his flat stomach. She silenced a groan. Jeez. Didn’t the man have anything to sleep in that wasn’t so damn tight?

When his phone gave a chirp, he walked toward it. She shoved another forkful of sauce-covered noodles into her mouth, trying not to watch for his reaction to the missed call and failing miserably. After he grabbed it and flicked his finger across the screen, his gaze shot to her. Her stomach somersaulted when their eyes connected. Emotions she couldn’t identify swept across his magnetic blue irises. Then he blinked, pressed a button, and put the phone to his ear.

“Hello, lovely lady. I see you called.”

Jealousy sparked to an all-out inferno in Val’s gut. Swallowing her food was almost impossible, but somehow she got it down.

This was a reminder of what a man-whore Britton was. She’d needed this. If this wake-up call hadn’t happened, there was a good chance she would’ve jumped his bones tonight. Now she was back in control. Silver linings. Thank you, Olivia.

“Yeah. I’m fine. Just took a spill off a ladder while trying to replace some rotting wood at my place. Pulled some muscles in my back.” There was a pause then, “Friday?”

Val zeroed in on that one word, her muscles tensing as she waited for his response.

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