SEAL's Embrace (TNP 3) by James Elle

Author:James, Elle [James, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Action & Adventure, Thriller & Suspense, Romance, Suspense, Military, SEALs, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 1626950156
Publisher: Elle James
Published: 2014-06-05T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

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THANKFULLY, A BUS ran twenty-four/seven between the hospital and her assigned lodging. Any other day, she’d have walked the short distance, but Erin was tired and more than ready to sleep. She checked in at the desk and trudged up to her room.

Exhausted from being on her feet for over twenty hours, Erin showered quickly, slipped into a T-shirt and shorts and climbed into the bed. As she pulled up the sheet and blanket over her shoulders, she registered the echoes of the crowd chanting and shouting outside the gate, making falling to sleep immediately difficult.

Photographs of the injured German soldiers had circulated on the news, igniting anger and a powerful thirst for justice. The people outside wanted to exact their pound of flesh from the Taliban leader.

Forcing the angry mob and their chants and shouts to the back of her mind, Erin closed her eyes and remembered the way Caesar’s hands felt on her body, the way he’d made love to her wildly, passionately, ensuring she was as satisfied as he was.

Everything about her attraction to the SEAL was wrong. Granted, they weren’t in the same chain of command, and they weren’t even in the same branch of service. Still, he was enlisted and she was an officer. She loved her job. Loved that she helped soldiers make it home alive. If she lost her commission, she’d be out of the military.

Her lips still tingled from their kiss and she burned with the aching need to repeat what they’d shared behind the supply building at Bagram, her desire pushing her beyond reason. God, what was she doing to herself? If she had a lick of sense, she’d have gotten on the next flight back to Bagram and forgotten about Caesar and the way he made her want to ignore all the rules.

He was a goddamn SEAL, for heaven’s sake! He’d charm his way into her panties with his muscles and tattoos and as soon as he was reassigned, maybe sooner, he’d be on to the next girl. Adrenaline junkies like SEALs and pilots were notorious for multiple affairs and real commitment issues.

So? Why couldn’t she let herself enjoy the forbidden? They weren’t in Afghanistan. If they happened to kiss and make love in Germany, their actions wouldn’t be completely against the rules. Again, he wasn’t in her chain of command. For an officer and an enlisted man to hook up wasn’t completely unusual.

Despite being bone-tired, Erin tossed and turned until she finally fell into an exhausted sleep. The alarm on her watch woke her six hours later. She clawed her way out of the sleep coma and struggled upright. She’d promised to help out in ICU over the graveyard shift. She’d deployed from Landstuhl, so her credentials were up to date with the hospital, and they needed her to help out. They were short two ICU nurses and another had called in sick earlier that day.

With a sigh, she pushed back the covers and got out of the bed.

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