Harlequin Medical Romance July 2015 - Box Set 2 of 2: Her Playboy's Secret\Taming Her Navy Doc\Her Family for Keeps by Beckett Tina & Ruttan Amy & Evans Molly

Author:Beckett, Tina & Ruttan, Amy & Evans, Molly [Beckett, Tina]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Women, Series, Medical, Contemporary, Romance, Harlequin Medical Romance, Military, Women's Fiction, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Harlequin Medical Romances
Published: 2015-07-02T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

THERE HAD BEEN many times since he’d first met Erica when he’d pictured her telling him to drop his pants and in all those scenarios it involved her in a bed, underneath him.

Not once had he ever fantasized about being locked in the research lab, in pain and having her ordering him to take his pants off so she could rub his stump. This was not perfection at all. This was far from it. He didn’t want her seeing him like this.

In pain.

Exposed.

“I don’t think I heard you correctly, Commander Griffin. You want me to take off my pants?”

She nodded. “Yes. You’re wearing suit trousers; it’ll be impossible to roll up the leg of said trousers over your prosthetic. Besides, you need to remove your prosthetic so I can massage where it hurts.”

“I don’t think that’s appropriate.” He tried to move away, but she blocked him.

“With all due respect, Captain Wilder, I’ve seen that leg before. I know that leg. I know what was done to it and I know how to relieve your pain.”

Though he didn’t want to, Thorne took a deep breath and then stood, unbuckling his pants and slipping them off. He tried not to let it bug him that she was seeing him like this: vulnerable. He didn’t let any woman see him with his pants off. He didn’t let any woman see him with just his prosthetic, let alone the remains of his leg.

Erica did have a point, though. She was the one who’d performed the surgery. She was the one who’d removed his leg, fashioned the stump which had left minimal scarring and a good socket to work a prosthetic in.

The surgeon side of him knew it was a damn good amputation.

The other side of him saw it was a fault. An imperfection. The absence of his leg reminded him that a piece of him was missing and how was that desirable to any woman?

What does it matter? She’s off-limits.

And that was why he did as she asked.

He sat down and unhooked the prosthetic, embarrassed that she was there. Their eyes met as she knelt down in front of him, helping him remove the prosthetic and the wrappings underneath, which helped prevent the chaffing.

Her touch was gentle as she ran her hand over his thigh. The simple touch made him grit his teeth as he held back the intense pleasure he was feeling. Her hands on him made his blood burn with need.

It had been so long since he’d been with a woman, but this was not how he’d pictured it. Not even close. The way he fantasized about Erica had nothing to do with his stump, of massaging the knots out of his muscles.

“It healed nicely,” she remarked, which kind of shattered the illusion.

“What?” he asked.

“The wound healed really nice. Barely any visible scarring.”

“It did. It was a good job.”

“I didn’t know. You were taken out of my care hours after surgery and then I never knew what became of you. You had no name, no record.

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