The Nauti Boys Collection by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh [Leigh, Lora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2010-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

Natches left Chaya, exhausted, sleeping peacefully in the bed he’d dreamed of her sleeping in.

When he’d returned from Iraq, he had thrown the bed he’d partied in for so many years right into the lake. He’d come in at night, taken one look at it, and something inside him had shattered.

The man who had slept in that bed wasn’t the same man who had returned to it. The man who had returned belonged to someone now and was no longer the man that bed represented.

Before he left, he’d been the bastard everyone thought he was and had been on a fast track to self-destruction. It was why he joined sniper training; it was why he worked without a spotter; it was why he had become one of their most proficient killers. Because life didn’t matter to him—not his, and not those he was sent to kill.

To the man he had been, happiness was something others felt. All he had felt then was the rage, the bitterness, the knowledge he was tainted by the blood of an incestuous, child-beating son of a bitch. And the fear that somehow, part of Dayle Mackay lived inside him. And then, he had seen true strength. He had seen a woman who should have been weeping in horror, in fear, and she had stood strong. She had lifted her chin defiantly and she had kept fighting.

And in those two weeks of recovery, she had let him hold her when she cried, when she learned the husband she thought she could trust had betrayed her and his country. He had teased her into laughter days later, and stolen a kiss. He had watched her eyes sparkle and his soul had claimed her.

And she had changed him. In that short time, she had erased the man he had been, and shown him the man he wanted to be. A man who was worthy of a woman that strong.

He stood on the deck now, leaning against the rail and staring into the dark water stretching out behind the boat, and realized that he had grown up long before his cousins had realized it. Maybe it had begun before Chaya, but he just knew it had cemented with Chaya.

He had bitched about the sharing that didn’t continue after they came home, but only because to not bitch was to reveal too much. And he didn’t want to explain Chaya. He didn’t want to relive in words what he couldn’t forget in his memories. And he couldn’t betray Chaya by taking another woman.

He’d let others think he had. Hell, he even watched Dawg take a few, but he hadn’t been tempted to join in. He hadn’t wanted to be tempted to join in. Chaya had been so firmly entrenched in his head and in his heart, that no other woman came close to the memory of her.

She loved him silently, as though she was afraid that to love him any other way would break her.

And his heart broke. As wild,

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