Cold As Stone (Family Stone #7 John) (Family Stone Romantic Suspense) by Lisa Hughey

Author:Lisa Hughey [Hughey, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780996435222
Publisher: Lisa Hughey
Published: 2015-10-11T17:00:00+00:00

John braced for the deafening bang of gunfire. He knew coming to the range would be difficult for Rissa but he wanted to help her. He hadn’t really counted on how hard it would be for him either. He hadn’t been in combat, hadn’t been anywhere near people discharging firearms, since he’d been blown up.

“We aren’t going to need weapons on this op.” Rissa was still trying to stop this from happening.

“Maybe.” This was a major US city, not the Helmand Province. The odds of a shootout with bad guys, assuming they were even on the right track to find the bad guys, was about a million to one. “But before I was a Marine I was a Boy Scout. And I take that shit seriously,” he said with a completely straight face.

Rissa snickered and her shoulders relaxed. Mission accomplished.

“Start with a .22.” John placed the little pea shooter in her hand carefully, his fingers wrapped around hers, the weapon pointed toward the dirt floor. Her skin was warm beneath his and he flashed back to last night when her hand was wrapped around something far more intimate.

The sensual heat in her blue-green eyes told him she was remembering the same thing.

Thinking about last night was far more pleasurable than thinking about firing the weapon. He also knew she needed to do this.

The cement lane buffered the sound of gunfire from the other patrons but he still had to brace himself for the sharp bursts hitting his ears like thumps to the chest. And he remembered last night in that strip club. How Rissa had completely freaked at the noise. The impulse to comfort her made his palms itch.

John grabbed the ear protectors hanging around his neck, held on to the ear muffs to stop from reaching for her.

He leaned in, their torsos nearly touching. His lips brushed the shell of her ear, the contact a straight zap to his cock.

“Last night.” He glanced away from her, at the target hanging fifty yards out. Damn, he’d rather be back at Camp Leatherneck than have this conversation. “I froze for a second.”

The confession was ripped from his depths.

Her surprised gaze caught his.

He nodded. It was true. He’d completely lost where he was for a second, but then he saw Rissa freaking out and he tore himself out of his own memories to help her. “But you needed me and I pulled it together.”

Rissa’s eyes were wide with shock.

“If someone else was in danger, you’d handle it.” He had no doubts.

John took a deliberate step back, then set the box of ammunition on the table next to her. “I’m going next door to work with Maria.” He figured she’d want to be alone anyway.

John headed out before her hesitant vulnerability caused him to do something inadvisable.

Rissa nodded and turned away from him without another word. He only hoped his admission had helped.

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