and her eyes snapped open. Shit… She turned her head to find Reese stretched out full-length beside her, his large, male body taking up most of the space on the queen-sized bed. It was a good thing she slept scrunched in a little ball or there wouldn’t have been any room for her.
Heat warmed her cheeks as she remembered the night before. To say Reese had been insatiable was an understatement, and combined with the stamina he had to have gained from active service… She was sore in some very pleasurable places. He’d... oh, hell…and she’d. Then he’d had her…
Her cheeks properly burned at the thought of the kinky things they’d done to and with each other. She wasn’t inexperienced by any stretch of the imagination, but last night with Reese had broadened her horizons in a way no amount of reading erotica could ever rival.
She turned on her side to study him. In sleep, he seemed peaceful, and even more handsome. A recumbent angel with the face and body hot enough to lead any woman into sin. He lay on his stomach with his arm stretched above his head and she could just read a bit of the tattoo on his side.
CONNOR
Reese J.
307-77-1057
A Rh. POS
Ursanthrope
She frowned, wondering what the J stood for, and traced her finger over the word at the bottom. It seemed familiar, but she wasn’t sure what it meant. No surprise there, her mental faculties were never at their sharpest this early in the morning.
Her cell buzzing caught her attention. She rolled to pick it up as she slid out of bed, padding from the room before she answered so as not to wake Reese. Her smile was automatic as she read her brother’s name on the screen, and she swore.
“Oh shit! Sorry, Danny,” she apologized as she answered the call. “I meant to call you back last night, but kinda got sidetracked…”
She let that sentence trail off. Her brother didn’t need to know the reason she hadn’t called back was that was she was too busy jumping the bones of one of the motel’s hot guests.
“Hey, kitten. No problem,” he drawled, his pet name for her making her smile. When she was little, he’d once made her mad and she’d spat like a mad kitten at him. Since then, he’d always called her that.
“Everything okay? You don’t normally call me that late at night.”
“Uh-huh. All good.”
She made it to the kitchen on autopilot, and flicked the kettle on. The rattle it gave told her it was empty. Crap. Wrinkling her nose, she grabbed it and started to fill it from the faucet. She could not do without coffee in the morning. Not unless she wanted to snap the heads off half her customers before noon, and since the diner was the only thing keeping them afloat at the moment she could do without pissing off loyal customers.
“Sure?” Danny didn’t sound convinced, the big brother protective act in full swing. She was sure, if he had the opportunity, he’d make sure she was wrapped up in cotton wool for the rest of her life. “No trouble recently?”
“Hmm, nope. Nothing doing. Really boring.” She gave him her best innocent act, injecting a note of boredom in her voice, suggesting he was being overprotective.
“Good. So, did Reese turn up?”
She froze at the question, mug from the cupboard in her hand. Danny knew Reese?
“Reese?” The words left her mouth on autopilot.
“Yeah. Reese Connor. Tall, British dude… Used to be one of my team before he retired a couple weeks ago. I asked him to look in on you, make sure things are okay there.”
She blinked as Danny’s words sunk in. Reese hadn’t stopped out of the goodness of his heart. He’d been sent here. By her brother. What the fuck? Had he seen her as some kind of easy lay? His best mate’s fluffy chick sister… Just right for the plucking and desperate for any man that came along.
“Did you really?” Anger swirled up from the center of her being. “Why? You think I can’t run this place now? If that’s what you think, then perhaps you should get
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