The Omega Team: Holiday's Hostage (Kindle Worlds Novella) by North Cara
Author:North, Cara [North, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-12-09T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 4
Phoebe snuggled up against his back and put her arm around him. Aside from the kiss she practically forced onto him, they hadn’t been sexual with one another. The long days turned into long nights. He checked his watch, he checked his room, he walked the perimeter, and they discussed evacuation plans at least once each day. It was a strange sort of comfort they had settled into, and she was growing wary along with worried. They hadn’t heard anything about her father. While she understood this was because he was likely actually at risk, whereas she was simply stuck in a cabin with the hottest, most tactically trained babysitter on the planet.
This was simply a nap. One she had convinced him she needed. Then she used his protective streak against him by pretending to have bad dreams if he wasn’t there next to her. She wasn’t worried at all about any of this. Whatever her father was into had nothing to do with her. She inhaled the clean, warm male scent of him and let her fingers ghost across the soft fabric of his shirt, sensing the outline of his abs.
He was fully dressed and that was suddenly a problem for her. This was Holiday. Howard Holiday, a man she once loved, still loved, if she was being honest. It was the day before Christmas and she was starting to feel like he was her gift, more than her guardian. Would it hurt to peek under the wrapping, just a little?
Putting a slight bit more pressure on the shirt, she tugged and worked until her fingers felt warm flesh, the coarse hair just below his navel. She was aware this was inappropriate for a client-worker relationship, but the past few days they were back on friendly terms, talking like it was old times, laughing, playing games, by all accounts on her end falling back into love with one another.
The tip of her index finger slid lower, touched the elastic band of his underwear and the hard fabric of the jeans covering them. She pressed her entire body as close to his as she could, tried not to moan as she bit her lower lip. Her eyes closed tight, she was lost in her own little fantasy when a firm hand covered hers and pulled it away.
He turned, abruptly leaving her to find balance and settle next to him on the bed. When she opened her eyes she was surprised to find his brows drawn down in a scowl. His words were even more tight and angry. “What are doing?”
Her heart punched to her throat. Had she been misreading his emotions all this time? She gulped and admitted, “I was hoping you would like to wake up to me touching you. You used to like to wake up to me…”
“When you were mine. You’re…Steven’s.” He rolled out of the bed and stood with a stretch.
“I am not Steven’s anything.” She was lying to both of them and he scoffed.
“Does
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