It's a Wonderful Fireman by Bernard Jennifer

Author:Bernard, Jennifer [Bernard, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780062389367
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Published: 2014-12-23T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

THE FORMER SAN Gabriel firefighters got pressed into service shortly after their conversation about Mulligan’s first day. The crew on the Yogurtland fire needed help keeping the area clear, so the off-duty guys volunteered for civilian-wrangling duty. Brody went to consult with the IC, who had radioed him with a question. Finally only Lizzie was left, watching forlornly as all the others busied themselves with some essential task.

With no one talking to her, at least for the moment, Lizzie couldn’t hide from the thoughts crowding into her mind. Maybe it was her optimistic side, but when she pictured Mulligan inside the collapsed building, she didn’t see him crushed and destroyed. She saw him roaring back at the debris trying to bury him, or tearing apart rubble with his bare hands. Mulligan was a force of nature, practically. She saw him as a wounded lion, someone with a mighty heart who’d suffered some deep damage. So many things could have killed him—had even tried to kill him—but he always survived.

He’d survive this too, right?

Unable to stand still, she paced as close to the line of rigs as she dared, until smoke burned her nostrils and she had to bury her face in the crook of her elbow.

Mulligan didn’t talk much about his childhood, but she’d picked up enough. She knew his mother was in and out of drug rehab and that he’d been placed in foster care a few times. She knew his stepfather abused him. She knew he still sent his mother money, but it tore him up because often she used it for drugs. She knew that he’d fought the odds his whole life, and as far as she was concerned, he’d won, a thousand times over.

So had she, since being diagnosed with leukemia at the age of ten. Why had she never told him about the three years she’d spent getting bone marrow transplants and blood transfusions?

Simple reason. She wanted him to treat her as an adult, a healthy, red-blooded, sexually mature adult. And boy, had he.

After that first amazing time at Rachel’s apartment, they’d started up a steamy affair. She told no one that she was seeing Mulligan, and they never went out in public. She didn’t want everyone’s comments and opinions. She just wanted him. Often he spent his entire off day with her, closed up in her apartment, making love in every room, every position, every dirty, sexy way she’d ever imagined. And many she hadn’t.

Mulligan was a bona fide sex god, no doubt about it. His scarred body held so much power that one glimpse of his bare chest would get the flutters going. He only had to look at her with those dark, hungry eyes for liquid heat to run through her veins. And when his voice dropped to that tense, sexy growl—“take off your blouse . . . put your hands up there . . . turn over . . .”—oh my God, she just about lost her mind. Mulligan did something to her at a chemical, molecular level.

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