Where You Least Expect by Lydia Rowan

Author:Lydia Rowan [Rowan, Lydia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary Interracial Military Romance
Publisher: Lydia Rowan
Published: 2015-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

If pressed, Joe wouldn’t have been able to articulate what had compelled him to kiss Verna, to make no mention of what had compelled him to kiss her again and then take her. He could acknowledge that his heart had been lodged in his throat when she hadn’t come home, a million scenarios as to what might have happened to her out there running through his mind. And he could also acknowledge that each of those scenarios, Verna hurt or in danger or vulnerable, or cold and alone and afraid, had hit like physical blows. It made finding her and bringing her home, making sure she was okay, an imperative that he would not stop until he’d fulfilled.

And when she’d run into him in the hallway, she’d called to him, and he’d responded, the relief at knowing she was safe supplanted by fierce and undeniable desire. He’d kissed her before, but the explosion of passion when he’d touched his lips against hers had caught him off guard. The more he’d kissed her, the more he’d wanted to kiss her; the more of her generous, soft curves he molded under his hands, the more he’d wanted to touch her, and when he’d buried himself inside her, the pleasure he’d felt was only outpaced by the sense of rightness that had stolen over him.

“You asleep?” he asked.

“Nope. Are you?” she responded.

“Nope.”

He smiled at her little tittered laugh, and then they fell silent. Joe pulled her a little closer and then kissed her, trailed his lips along her jaw, bent to nip at her rounded shoulder as he sculpted her curves under his hands. She breathed out, the sound of her arousal stirring his own. But she’d be tender, he knew, so he stopped, opting to simply hold her in his embrace before things got more heated. Strangely, though he’d just had the most powerful release of his life, he wasn’t tired. But he wasn’t wired either.

He was content. Yes, that was it. Lying here with Verna in his arms filled him with an ease and comfort he’d rarely known.

“How do you feel?” he blabbered before he could stop himself.

“You getting emo on me, Joe?”

“Verna, I am an elite soldier, one possessing the highest physical and mental conditioning that humans can achieve. Does that sound like the type of person who gets ‘emo’?”

The gentle shake of her shoulders was followed by a laugh. “Yep. That’s totally emo.”

He shrugged. “Just a friendly inquiry.”

“Is that what this is? Friendly? If so, I’d have been much nicer to you, much, much sooner.”

“I’m glad you finally came to your senses,” he said, stroking a hand down her arm and then lacing his fingers with hers, loving the little shiver that went through her.

“Me too,” she said, her voice dreamy. “And to answer your question, I feel amazing! I could run a damn marathon.”

He let a lazy smile cross his face as a sense of masculine pride swelled within him.

“Don’t be so proud of yourself,” Verna said, somehow sensing his approval of her statement.

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