The Military Wife by Laura Trentham

Author:Laura Trentham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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Bennett popped his eyes open. He’d dropped back into a doze after waking from familiar childhood dreams, but something more benign woke him this time. A second knock was definitely not dream induced. He grabbed a T-shirt and pulled it on as he padded barefoot to the door and opened it. Harper crashed straight into his chest with an oof, knocking him back a step. Surprise pumped adrenaline through his body.

Jack whined from the floor but didn’t rise. Bennett glanced toward the window and the angle of the moonlight put the time around midnight. She was in the same T-shirt she’d been wearing earlier.

“What are you doing here?” he whispered. After their disaster-ish kiss, she hadn’t been able to get away from him fast enough. And now she was practically in his arms, even if it was because she was off balance.

“Did I wake you?”

“Sort of.”

“Bad dreams?” How did she see straight through him like that in the dark? “Here’s your jacket.”

She shoved his fleece zip-up into his chest. He tossed it into a chair. “You came to my room in the middle of the night to return my jacket?”

“Yes.” She was so close, he could feel her body sigh. “No. Can I come in? We need to talk.”

The four scariest words a woman could utter. Now he was the one off balance. “It can’t wait until morning?”

Her hands tightened around his forearms. “No.”

He disentangled himself from her and closed the door to keep from waking Ben or Gail. The distance was good. She was too soft and warm and tempting. Which was exactly what had gotten him in trouble earlier.

He perched stiffly on the side of the bed with his legs outstretched and his arms crossed over his chest. “Go ahead.”

She stepped closer, the shadows giving way to moonlight. Her nerves were obvious. Was she going to tell him to take his money and get gone? Had one kiss screwed up everything?

“Earlier … you know, on the dock … well, I didn’t mean … that is to say—” She cleared her throat and whispered, “Aw, screw it.”

She straddled his legs and put her hands on his face. Before he could do more than unlock his arms and grab her waist, she kissed him.

Instead of the slow deliberation of their kiss on the dock, desperation thrummed around her, infecting him as well. He pulled her closer, fusing their bodies. She hooked an arm around his neck while her other hand played in his hair. Her sexy whimper was like flint to dry tinder.

He rolled them until she was on her back and he was between her legs. She arched against him, and a shiver coursed through him. As much as he would love to peel off all their clothes and wake up in the morning with her, too many questions burned for answers.

Except her lips felt perfect and he was having problems locating sufficient willpower to actually detach them. He moved his lips against hers. “Harper. What are we doing?”

“Kissing.

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