A Hero For Ku'uipo (Delta Force Hawaii Book 2) by Reina Torres

Author:Reina Torres [Torres, Reina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

He felt her shudder, or maybe shiver was a better word. The tremors that passed through her body and into his felt like the whole world was vibrating around them.

A seismic surge of energy.

“Let’s go get you home and we’ll play the rest by ear.”

Train saw her lips part, saw the startled look in her eyes.

“I’d love to see you relax for a bit. Put your feet up. Maybe you’ll let me rub your feet?”

He swore he could see her wavering, melting at the thought.

“Are you serious? Or… or is this just a tease?”

“I don’t tease about those kinds of things.” He loved the way she looked… but at that moment, when her eyes were half-hooded, her lips parted and plump, it was all he could do to breathe.

All he could do to keep this calm, easy.

He wanted to kiss those lips.

Her lips curved into a smile. “I can feel you thinking, I just can’t figure out what’s going on inside your head.”

Train fought down the need inside of him, offering her his arm in lieu of his heart.

At least for a little while. He wasn’t interested in scaring her, just forging a connection that she might consider continuing when he went back to work.

Slipping her arm through his, she leaned against him as they walked, and he felt the cool touch of the conditioned air on his skin. But everywhere he felt her was warm, gentle… beautiful.

The back doors slid open and they stepped out into the night air. Beside him, she lifted her face and looked up into the dark canopy of night. “Just wait,” she sighed, “when we get to my place, the view from the porch, you can see the night sky without all of the lights. The stars look so beautiful in the darkness.”

They continued for a few steps before she turned to look at him, but he was still watching her.

Ku‘uipo looked away, her cheeks darkening with color. “You’re supposed to be looking at the stars!”

“I am,” he turned his gaze toward the small collection of coconut trees off to the side of the property. Beyond it, he could see a couple of cottages close to the beach, but there was one deeper in the shadows, further from the hotel and the lagoon. It looked to be the same size as the others, but its placement gave it a hide-away look. A refuge.

“That one’s yours.”

He heard her soft, melodic laughter blending in with the trade winds.

“Kuʻu home o Lihue,” she murmured in a voice that he could only describe as reverent. “My love for my home, Lihue.”

“I can hear the way you feel, Ipo.”

They mounted the stairs together, with Train giving the base of the house a curious look as they did. “It seems like the style around here,” he wondered, “houses raised off the ground with some kind of lattice work beneath.”

She released his arm as she drew her keys from the pocket in her muʻumuʻu and looked up at him before she set to work opening the lock.

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