Wicked by Zoe Dawson

Author:Zoe Dawson [Dawson, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zoe Dawson

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He didn’t respond, and she had no idea what was going to happen here, but everything was now in the open and the ball was in his court.

Her gaze slid over him. Six feet, five inches of raw power and testosterone roped with muscle and seductive danger, but what she needed wasn’t as much the physical, although she wanted that, it was him, the core of Rion. He was a force to be reckoned with, a force of destruction when he decided on it and a force of seductive power.

She let her gaze run back over the length of him and hardened herself against the easy way, against her own weakness—her betrayal?

This really wasn’t the time for this when an important mission vital to the security of the United States needed their complete attention. But they’d already waited too long. Sure, they had a job to do, and he was an integral part of it. They couldn’t fail. Too much rode on their success. No more deaths due to a breach in their own security and a perfect storm of errors was their ideal.

She had handled this just as she’d handled her heart and mind over the past five years, compartmentalizing her emotions. But that was no longer going to work. It was time to open up the old wounds and clean them out, get everything out in the open and stop with the fear, anger, and frustration that had ruled her for so long.

If she crossed professional lines, there were going to be repercussions. Big ones. Life-altering ones, career-altering ones, heart-altering ones.

He was so still, even in motion. She loved his stillness, the calm ease with which he moved and thought, and there was always something going on in that beautiful mind.

Her gaze went back to his face, to the brutal calmness of him even in his pissed off stance.

Often, she felt lost in the forest.

And, it seemed, she couldn’t get out of the woods, even as she remembered how tough and unforgiving she’d been afterward, after Phoenix’s death.

As his mouth had moved over hers only moments ago, flexibility and softness flowed down through her veins. Her body belonged to him, even as she made it strong with everything she could, and Wicked had taught her how to breathe.

It was a good thing he had. He reacted to the look on her face. That impulse to touch him overwhelmed her, and her muscles tensed at his guarded look, always so damned tough.

“Don’t.” Her voice was firm but soft at the same time. “Don’t do what you’ve always done—detach. You have to tell me how you feel about all this. I don’t know, and it’s killing me.”

He was beautiful, exquisitely so. His dark hair shot through with honey highlights was uncharacteristically disheveled. She remembered the softness, the relief of touching him. His shadowed face only intensified the shadows in his eyes—dark and tortured, lost and falling. He’d been so hurt, devastated by Phoenix’s death, and her bitterness and hatred that had colored her for too many years.

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