Damaged Desires: A Frenemy, Military Romance by LJ Evans

Author:LJ Evans [Evans, LJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: damaged desires, an anchor novel, LJ Evans, LJ Evans Books, contemporary romance, military romance, bodyguard romance, brother's best friend, frenemy romance, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, medical romance, romantic suspense, from the ashes there's life, where music and stories collide
Publisher: LJ Evans Books
Published: 2020-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

Nash

STILL BREATHING

“I've been running all my life.

Just to find a home that's for the restless,

And the truth that's in the message,

Making my way, away, away.”

Performed by Green Day

Written by Armstrong / Pritchard / Wright III / Slack / Spiller

Dani came out of the bathroom in a pair of cotton shorts so tiny they barely covered her butt cheeks and a tank which almost showed as much as it hid. They were clearly pajamas of some sort in a print almost childlike. Cupcakes and unicorns. Things I’d never associated with a grown woman before.

Dani lay down in the bed where she’d slept earlier. Her eyes were so tired they looked bruised. When she closed her eyes, I got up and turned off the lights before sitting back down in the chair. I slouched, resting my neck on the chair back, staring at the ceiling.

I was pretty sure I wouldn’t sleep.

Not with Dani in the bed in front of me in almost nothing. Not with Dani needing protection from some obsessed maniac. I’d already locked every single lock on the door and checked the windows. The vents were far enough away with a weave on the grate small enough it would be almost impossible to slide a scope through. It was overkill. But my mind had been programmed to think this way, and the worst thing you could do was to take your enemy for granted.

My thoughts from earlier swirled through me again. None of the notes had been signed. Nothing truly tied the attacks back to Fiona. Images of our time at the restaurant replayed in my mind. Every inch. Every face. Every body. There’d been five men from the detail there. The super twins, two I barely knew, and Tanner. Tanner was an asshole, but I was pretty sure that was just because he hated me taking over and showing him his failures. It had nothing to do with Dani, but then again, this had started with Brady, and I wasn’t sure what any of their relationships had been like before Dani and I had come on board.

“You don’t have to sleep in the chair,” Dani’s voice broke into my thoughts. “You can sleep on the bed.” Her eyes were closed, and her voice sounded slow, slightly slurred as she started to fall asleep.

“I’m good,” I told her.

“I’m not contagious. I don’t have cooties. You can’t catch Dani cooties from sleeping in a bed with me and clean sheets,” she said, her lips quirked up at the corners like she was smirking at me even half asleep.

My lips quirked a return answer, even as the truth settled in. I already had Dani cooties. There were all kinds of Dani cooties crawling under and over my skin. And damn if those cooties weren’t enticing enough to make me want to forget reality, a promise to a dead brother, and promises to myself about my job and relationships. It made me want to forget everything but the skin of the woman who smelled like sunshine and honey and a childhood I’d all but forgotten about.

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