Seaside Embrace: Hunter Lacroux (Love in Bloom: Seaside Summers) by Melissa Foster

Author:Melissa Foster [Foster, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Literary Press
Published: 2016-02-16T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

HUNTER CUT THE engine in front of Jana’s house. After trying to practically climb onto his lap as they drove away from Undercover, Jana had passed out leaning against his shoulder. He shifted her gently so she wouldn’t fall as he got out of the truck. He gathered her in his arms, struck by the angelic look on her peaceful face, contrasting sharply with the short dress and spiked heels. That was Jana, one big contradiction, even when she was asleep. He lifted her easily and kissed her forehead. She might be stubborn and antagonistic, but he’d seen her when her guard was down, and he knew this was a facade. She could push him as far and as hard as she wanted, but hell if he didn’t want to make her his even more than before.

She snuggled against his chest as her arms wound around his neck.

“Keys,” he mumbled. They’d left so quickly after he told Sky he was taking Jana home that they must have left her purse behind.

“Under the mat.” She pressed her hand to his chest and blinked up at him with sleepy, sexy eyes.

Damn if he didn’t get a little shiver. She’d gotten to him, all right. Hook, line, and sinker. He couldn’t resist pressing a kiss to her pink lips.

“We’re going to have a talk about safety, pretty girl.”

“No talk,” she slurred as her eyes closed. “Sex.”

He crouched, holding Jana tightly against him as he retrieved the key from beneath the mat, unlocked the door, then pocketed the key and pushed the door open.

“We’re going to talk about that, too,” he told her, though the cadence of her breathing told him that she had already passed out again.

Jana’s house was dark and quiet and smelled like her: Sexy, feminine, and too fucking desirable. He’d been inside her house the other night, but he’d been so overcome with desire, and then, in the bedroom, he’d been bowled over by his emotions, unable to see or think past them. Now he took a moment to look around. The house was only slightly bigger than it looked from the outside, but Jana’s essence was everywhere. The living room curtains were partially closed, willowy and colorful. The pale blue couch clashed with an orange armchair, and the armchair definitely did not match the tie-dyed pillows tossed haphazardly on the chair and floor. The walls were painted pale yellow, but as Hunter turned down the hallway toward the open bedroom door he’d spotted, he noticed that the hallway walls were pink. He smiled to himself. Her furnishings were as busy as her life.

He stopped at the threshold to Jana’s bedroom and tried to make sense of the sight before him. He wasn’t sure if he was looking at something from a Dr. Seuss book or a fancy high-end catalog. How the hell had he missed all this the last time? The bedroom walls were a muted gold color. A pear-green dresser boasted iron handles in the shapes of flowers.

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