Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 63763 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 319(@200wpm)___ 255(@250wpm)___ 213(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 63763 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 319(@200wpm)___ 255(@250wpm)___ 213(@300wpm)
“It was aimed at the crowd.”
“For less than a second.”
“You were in the crowd.”
“I’m okay, Corbin.” She slid both arms beneath my cut and leaned against me. “We’re okay.”
I kissed her hard enough to taste the relief she offered. Then our attention was snagged by the sound of a man and woman in a heated argument.
Tamsin was toe-to-toe with Ghost arguing about the explosion and figuring out what, or who, had been behind it.
Bex moved against my side, and I glanced down to find fascination lighting her face despite the fear still lingering beneath it. “He likes her.”
“Yeah.”
“Do you think he knows?”
“Ghost knows the rack was sabotaged, the firing system was bridged, and Tamsin Bellamy is currently following him across the field while threatening to revoke his access to her equipment.” I watched Ghost take the clipboard from her when she tried walking and reading at the same time, his hand settling briefly at her lower back as he moved her around a coil of wire. “He’ll catch up.”
Bex smiled. “Maybe faster than you did.”
I scoffed. “Identified you as mine immediately, baby.”
“You also walked away from me.”
“Temporary tactical error.”
Her face scrunched adorably and she huffed, “It lasted three weeks.”
“Still temporary.”
Her laughter eased the last hard pressure inside me, but I kept my arm around her as I led her to our SUV. By the time I got Bex home, the adrenaline had turned into a restless hunger I had no interest in controlling. She made it three steps inside before I caught her around the waist, locked the door behind us, and put her back against it. Her property vest creaked beneath my hands as I claimed her mouth, and the small sound she made sent blood rushing to my cock.
My hands worked over her body, needing to feel that she was okay. In one piece.
“You checked me about a dozen times before we left,” she murmured when I lifted my head.
I swept her into my arms and started toward the stairs. “Need you naked where I can put my hands on every inch.”
Her expression softened, but she caught one of my nipple rings through my shirt and tugged hard enough to make my abdomen contract. “That sounds suspiciously like another inspection.”
“More thorough.”
Her laugh followed us into the bedroom, but it broke into a moan when I set her on the mattress and stripped away the vest, shirt, jeans, and everything beneath them. I used my hands and mouth until her body stopped carrying any trace of the launch-field panic, taking the first orgasm with two fingers buried inside her and the second with my tongue locked to her clit. Only when she lay flushed and trembling beneath me did I rise over her and let the need battering through my control have what it had wanted since the live shell turned toward her.
I slid both hands beneath Bex and moved her toward the center of the bed in one long pull, dragging a breathless laugh from her as the comforter shifted beneath us. Then I followed her up, covering her with my body until her softness was trapped beneath my weight and my cock rested hot and heavy along her slick center. She wrapped her legs around my hips, her heels pressing into my ass while she pulled me closer and opened her mouth beneath mine.
Her hands moved over my shoulders and down my back, tracing muscle, scars, and ink before her fingers curled around my hips and tried to draw me where she wanted me. When I remained still, she pouted and tugged the silver hoops through one of my nipples before trying again.
I caught her nape and held her gaze as I dragged the head through her soaked folds, circling her entrance without pushing inside. “Your pussy makes me lose my fucking mind.”
Her pupils were dark and wide, but satisfaction gleamed back at me. “I can’t say I don’t like being the only person who can crack your code.”
“Terrible pun, baby.”
She giggled, the sound turning breathless when I pressed more firmly against her. “Maybe, but we could find out whether it’s true.”
A growl rolled out of my chest as I began entering her. “Careful what you ask for.”
I took the first few inches slowly because she was sensitive after coming twice, giving her body time to stretch around my thickness while the tight heat gripping me made my vision blur. Bex’s mouth fell open, her nails digging into my shoulders as I pushed deeper, and every small contraction around my cock threatened to tear away what remained of my restraint. I stopped only when my hips met hers and I was buried so completely that her pussy fluttered around the base while the softness of her belly pressed against mine.
I rested my forehead against hers, breathing through the brutal pleasure while my hand tightened around her nape. “So fucking tight after you come for me.”