Lawless by Helenkay Dimon

Author:Helenkay Dimon [Dimon, Helenkay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Goodreads: 18812483
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

An alarm buzzed beside her head, breaking into Hope’s delicious dream. She thought about throwing it at the wall.

When her eyes opened and she adjusted to the overhead light and darkness outside the window, it all came rushing back. Joel’s arm across her stomach. His breath against her neck. The memories of the kissing and touching. Making love with him, feeling him over her. Rolling around after and his cursing once he remembered they only had one condom.

She’d wanted another morning after with him for so long. It was somewhere around three and not yet sunrise, but this was close enough.

Through the waves of anger and hurt all those months ago and every day since, she knew they’d get back to this emotional place. That they weren’t over. The real question was how long they could stay in this holding position.

The temptation to hide under the blanket and forget the world and the horrors outside the cabin rushed over her. She hated to wake him, but that was the deal. One person on guard duty, and Cam had been handling that for hours.

Now, deep into the night, rain still pinged against the cabin and the alarm on his simple black watched sounded a second time. No question about it, it was Joel’s turn to stand guard.

“I want to stay in bed with you.” Joel mumbled the comment into her hair.

She had to smile at the grumbling. “Cam would kill you.”

The man protected for a living and could shoot anything, track anything, catch anything, yet he hated waking up. It had always been that way with Joel. Morning came and he whined and groaned and tried to get her to stay in bed beside him.

He’d concoct elaborate scenarios just to win another ten minutes. When that failed, he’d start kissing her, and he’d always won the bed battle once that happened.

“Trust me, Cam would understand.” Joel lifted up and balanced over her on one elbow. “He can’t believe I let you get away the first time.”

“Me either.”

She hadn’t said the words last night because she wanted him to accept the risk and tell her first, but she did love him. They’d said it before and it didn’t stop him from walking out. She had no idea if it would matter now. The not knowing made her want to knock some sense into him.

His mouth opened, then closed. It took another few seconds before he said anything. “I walked into that one.”

“And, technically, you left me.”

He groaned and sat up. “On that note, I’ll get out of bed now.”

Naked and not even a little shy about it, he threw his feet over the side of the bed. He wiped his face with his open hand but didn’t cover his body. Just looked around the floor.

“I’m going to regret this a few hours from now when I’m trudging through the forest dead on my feet,” she said as she gathered the lone blanket against her bare skin and sat up. “Now I just have to find my clothes.

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