Treasured: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella by Lexi Blake

Author:Lexi Blake [Blake, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lexi Blake, Masters and Mercenaries, 1001 Dark Nights, romance, suspense
Publisher: 1001 Dark Nights Press
Published: 2021-06-21T23:00:00+00:00

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Tessa stood in front of the door and realized she was being a coward. She’d taken way too long in that shower, and the whole time she couldn’t stop thinking about how if she’d been a little braver, he might have been in there with her, his hands moving over her body.

He was too fucking good to be true, and she’d had that before. She’d been in this exact place with a man who should have been forever and just wasn’t, and what if that was her fault?

It had seemed like such a perfect idea on the plane. She’d had hours to think it over, to come to the conclusion that they could find mutual pleasure and walk away satisfied. One night to get David out of her system had sounded like a logical, practical thing to do. Then he’d turned the tables on her on the boat. The minute she’d realized her buttoned-up professor was kind of a freak, she’d known she was in serious trouble. In some ways it still didn’t compute for her. The tops she knew were men who were dominant and dangerous even outside of Sanctum. She was sure her friends would tell her she needed to hang out with people who didn’t take bullets for a living, but that was her experience. She equated tops with alpha males.

Or was she equating alpha males with military men. There were other types of alpha men. She would bet David could take charge of a classroom easily. Why did a guy have to carry a gun to be an alpha?

She was stalling again. She wasn’t this woman, damn it. She wasn’t a woman who worried over every decision. She wanted David, and she was going to have him. They’d made their deal, and everyone knew the score, so this was easy-peasy.

She opened the door and stepped into the living area. And stopped because he was sitting at the desk, his face illuminated by the laptop screen and the soft light coming from the lamp. He had his glasses on, and he was staring at the screen intently with that look she’d quickly come to associate with him being lost in thought.

He was beautiful, and she wasn’t sure how she could fit in his world. Was his world as far from her as Michael’s had been?

His head came up, and suddenly it wasn’t the screen he was studying. “Hello, Tessa. Come here.”

The smile might have been friendly, but his tone was lower, the hint of a command in the words. She resisted the urge to lick her lips and stepped into the room. The door made a heavy, final thunking sound as it closed behind her. As tense as she’d been before, now she found her shoulders relaxing, the calm she normally felt in the changing room at Sanctum starting to slide over her.

She was suddenly so much more aware of her body, of the way the silk of her pajamas felt against her skin, the cool breeze from the fan overhead caressing her.

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