Tane: Hell Squad #20 by Hackett Anna

Author:Hackett, Anna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Fuck. Fuck. Tane gathered Selena close and pressed his face to her hair.

Her body was still trembling, and he hadn’t quite calmed his own raging senses. He tilted her head up and looked down into her face. She gave him a lazy, blinding smile.

It was like a kick to his chest. He’d put that look on her face. He’d made her smile.

He didn’t deserve her, but he wasn’t giving her up.

He nuzzled his nose against hers. “Sore?”

“A little, but my body heals fast.”

Still, he was determined to take good care of her. He rose, moving to the bathroom, and grabbed a washcloth. He held it under the warm water before returning to her. He shifted her legs gently to wipe between her thighs. He noticed heat in her cheeks.

He took the cloth back to the bathroom, rinsing it out before he returned to the bed. She snuggled into him, a warm sexy presence at his side and her slim hand pressed over his heart.

“Thank you,” she said.

He grunted. “For what?”

“For making that wonderful. For taking care of me.” She paused. “I know you held back and made it good for me.”

He tightened his arm on her. A wave of something went through him, an emotion he hadn’t felt much before—tenderness. He thought it would be sweet and gentle, but what he felt for her was raw, powerful, and tinged with the need to possess and protect.

He stroked a hand lazily over her ass. She nuzzled into him, her face pressed to his neck. This felt nice. He didn’t tell her that he’d never lain like this with a woman before.

Pre-invasion, sex had been quick, something to scratch an itch. He’d never hung around, and he’d never snuggled. He hadn’t really liked anyone touching him more than necessary. After the invasion, he’d been too busy fighting and hadn’t felt the urge, until Selena.

He breathed her in. Yeah, he could get used to this.

Her fingers brushed over his chest. “What did you mean when you said if you still had a soul?”

The quiet words cut into him. “I’ve been a soldier all my life. Fighting’s all I’ve ever been good at.”

“Tane—”

He squeezed her hand. “I became a mercenary. I didn’t join the military because I don’t like too many rules. I fought in some dark, shitty places for a really long time.” How could someone as light and good as Selena understand? Understand that he’d felt a need to be in the shadows, doing terrible things so others didn’t have to. “I’ve killed. I’ve killed people who had families, were parents, had wives and kids.”

She pressed up, glaring down at him, her face fierce. “Did you kill children?”

He sucked in a breath. “No.”

“Innocent people?”

“No.” An uncomfortable sensation moved through his gut. “But I’m certain some innocents got caught up in the fighting we were involved in—”

“Tane, I can only imagine how many people you saved. You stopped bad people, and yes, you killed, but those people made their choices.”

“Some of them didn’t want to do what they did.

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