Afterburn by Kira Sinclair

Author:Kira Sinclair [Sinclair, Kira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781426832345
Google: 8s_sy7Fa5P8C
Amazon: 0373794738
Published: 2009-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

8

“FUNNY. I never took you for a coward before.”

Chase lounged inside the doorway of Sabrina’s office late Monday morning. She hadn’t come to help him paint yesterday. The way she’d left Saturday night like a fire had been lit beneath her butt, he hadn’t really expected her to.However, he’d been disappointed just the same. Saturday had been the first day he’d honest to God enjoyed since coming home.

If there was one thing he knew about his wife it was that calling her out for her evasive tactic was a surefire way to get under her skin. She’d hate being called a coward almost more than anything. Especially because in this case it was true and there was no way she could dispute the fact.

It was an honor thing that her father and the air force had pounded into her brain. He was hoping for a knee-jerk one-eighty reaction that might involve finishing his bedroom…and then making use of it.

“I resent that statement.”

“Honey, if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and quacks like a duck—” he wandered into her space, deliberate rolling steps designed to set her on edge “—then I’m guessing it’s a duck.”

He enjoyed watching her fluster, the way she tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear. How her skin flushed a slight shade of pink as he moved closer. The way her body slid against leather as she shifted nervously in her chair.

“What I can’t figure out is, are you afraid of me—” Chase leaned down to her ear “—or of yourself?”

She gulped, the elegant column of her throat drawing his gaze down even as her eyes narrowed and her body moved away from him.

“I think you don’t trust yourself. I think if you had stayed Saturday night you would have ended up naked on my kitchen counter, relishing every moment of making love with me again.”

Chase swiveled her chair around so that she couldn’t evade him, couldn’t ignore him. She stared up into his eyes, a green swirl of denial, desire and distress.

“And I think you know it.”

Sabrina licked her lips before saying, “We agreed we wouldn’t do this.”

“Yeah, well. I was stupid to think I could be in the same zip code with you and resist craving you.”

“Then we can’t be in the same zip code, Chase. This is a bad idea. Sleeping together is a bad idea. I’ve already told you why.”

Sleeping together was the wrong term. It was too tame. What they had was raw, unbridled, wild. But he’d keep that thought to himself. For now.

Still, that didn’t mean he wasn’t going to push her. And if that meant a little personal gratification…

“Hot sex is never a bad idea, Sabrina.”

Reaching down, he pulled her out of her chair in one swift motion that had the breath backing into her lungs. Good, he liked her a bit off balance.

“Chase.” His gut clenched, not at the sound of his name on her lips but the underlying current of need behind it. She might not realize it but she was begging him—and torturing the hell out of them both.

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