Protecting Stella (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Victoria Paige & Operation Alpha

Author:Victoria Paige & Operation Alpha [Paige, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2020-05-11T23:00:00+00:00

11

Stella stared at the television, but she wasn’t paying attention, flashes from her hot night with Jake creeping into her thoughts. She woke up alone in bed this morning and found him in the kitchen preparing breakfast. There was a bit of awkwardness, but maybe it was more of morning-after shyness. Over their morning meal, Jake said he needed to do some work in the control room and go over intel with Viktor, Tex, and their AGS analyst. After another web session with Gram, she retired to the apartment. Jake came back close to lunchtime mumbling about getting real food and said he needed to run some errands. He wouldn’t expound on it, said he was going to get her some clothes and maybe more. He left around two.

The exit door to Castle Rock clanged.

Jake was back.

He’d been gone for five hours.

She switched the channel to the building monitors and spotted his big form passing the first-floor cameras going straight for the stairs. Her pulse quickened as she remembered that strong body wrapped around her in sleep. She had awakened in the early hours of dawn feeling like a furnace had melted her back. They separated reluctantly to let the cool air pass between them. And then contented themselves to sleep side by side. Jake’s nose buried in her hair, his arm slung over her belly.

The door to the apartment opened and Jake walked in and with him, the aroma of Chinese food. On one hand, he was holding the takeout, while the other fisted an assortment of shopping bags.

She got up to help him. “Wow. Did you buy the entire store?”

“I hope they fit you,” Jake said. “Got you all the essentials.”

She peeked into the bags. “These look like they’re all for me.”

“I have a go-bag,” he said. “Why don’t you try them on?”

Stella glanced longingly at the Chinese food. “Can we eat first? The last time I had a meal was this morning and then a protein bar at three.”

“Long day for you, huh?”

“Not as long as yours. You did all the running around.”

She peeked into another shopping bag and two boxes of condoms fell out. Her cheeks flamed as she bent down and picked them up to return them to the bag.

It was impossible not to look at him afterwards and they stared at each other for a few seconds before he broke the lock of their gazes and glanced away, but not before she saw the flash of his teeth. “Let me get the dishes—”

“Jake.” She said his name louder than normal and he turned to her, a grin still lurking at the corners of his mouth. “Don’t you want to eat Chinese takeout the way you see on TV?”

He shot her a maddening smile that gave her a deep belly flutter.

“Chopsticks?”

She grabbed the paper bag and walked over to the couch. “Is there any other way to eat it? Go get our drinks. Coke for me.”

“Yes, ma’am,” he drawled as he turned away and headed to the kitchen.

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