The Fox (Guardsmen Security Book 3) by Theresa Beachman

Author:Theresa Beachman [Beachman, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

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Raw need geysered up through Fox as he moved closer to Abbie.

“It’s been so long I barely remember who I was before… but you make me want to remember what it is to feel alive again.” He didn’t care that emotion strained his voice, that she saw him at his most vulnerable. It was important to him she understood the damage to his heart. That she was under no illusions about what could be between them, that it was something he hoped for, but it felt almost unbearably fragile.

Surprise widened her eyes. “After earlier and then I didn’t see you all afternoon… I thought…”

“Business. So many things to sign when you haven’t been home in a long time.” He slid his palm along the edge of her jaw.

He’d neglected her, caught up in the estate's business, and she’d thought he wasn’t interested, that the events of the last few days, that earlier today, had meant nothing to him.

She couldn’t have been more wrong. Just looking at her made his chest tight with forgotten emotion.

Her gaze locked on him, blotting out the rest of the world.

“With you, Abbie, I’m myself. Everyone else, when they know about Julie, they skirt around me, like I’m made of glass, someone to be pitied because of the loss I experienced. But not you. You treat me like a real person. I can’t get enough of that.”

“Maybe we’re more alike than you realize.” Her voice was breathy, fueling the blazing need roaring through his gut.

“Yeah?”

“Even in Helsinki, there were all these people around me, but I still felt lonely. They skirted me like the chip had changed me in some way, made me less than human.”

“No one could ever think that.” He tucked a stray strand behind her ear.

Touching her charged the air between them. He pulled her into his arms, loving that she didn’t fight him, but slid her arms around him and buried her face in his chest, relaxing against him.

The comfort she took from his embrace eased something in him for the first time since Julie had died: the need to be always out there, protecting the world from all the pain and hurt, fixing things, keeping people safe, trying to make good the fact that he hadn’t been able to protect Julie from the illness that had so cruelly taken her. All of it receded—until there was only Abbie, and he was happy to just be, to feel and breathe for the first time in far too long.

He smoothed loose hair from her forehead, kissed the frown denting between her eyes till it vanished. Her lips parted when he tilted her face up between his hands.

He skimmed his mouth over her temple, her eyelashes, the bridge of her nose, taking his time, loving the feel of her skin under his lips, before he found the warm sweetness of her mouth.

The taste of her was a heady mix of whiskey and woman. Blood scorched his veins, running hard and fast as savage desire punched through him.

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