Page 51 of Between Love and Honor

“Look at me,” he coaxed.

She lifted her lashes to meet his steady gaze. There was so much honor in the depths of those hazel eyes it made her throat tight.

“You said I was the only one who ever knew you,” he whispered. “Well that goes both ways. Nothing has changed. I’m still the same guy you knew before.”

She wanted to argue. He had changed in many ways.

Starting with the sexy sculpted body currently wrapped around hers. But her emotions were too conflicted right now to find words.

“I need you to trust me, Brit. Can you do that? Can you trust me?”

If he only knew. When it came to people she trusted in this world, Ben Segar had always been at the top of that list. Even if she was a bit peeved with him right now, that would never change.

“Good girl,” he said with a smile when she nodded.

“This micro card you’re talking about, is it the list of operatives for the Phoenix?”

“Of course, it is!” Why must he torture her by being so obtuse?

“Your parents are on that list?”

She slammed her eyelids shut. A lick of fear ran up her spine. He was questioning her as if he didn’t know what information Alexi was buying. Could he be using her?

Damn it! Yet again she was losing her head because her body couldn’t control itself. She lifted her lashes only to be pinned by his steadfast gaze.

“You trust me, remember?” he reminded her.

“My mother.” The words came out her mouth as though he were some sort of snake charmer.

He blinked. Twice. Then the corners of his mouth turned up in a slow smile of wonder. “Well, I’ll be damned. Kick-ass women run in the family.”

“Yes, well.” She grunted as she struggled unsuccessfully to shove him off her heavily aroused body. “If I don’t warn them, kick-ass or not, I won’t have any family left.”

He groaned when she nudged his shoulder again.

“Could you please hold still?” He breathed the words against her ear. “Ronoff is not going to kill your parents.”

She stilled beneath him. “How can you be so sure?”

“Because I said so.” His lips began to trace the column of her neck.

Her head reflexively lolled to the side to give him better access. “That’s not enough to reassure me. What makes you so omnipotent?”

He nibbled along her jaw until he reached the corner of her lips which he proceeded to tease with his tongue. She thrust her hips up in aggravation when he didn’t answer the question. Bad idea. He pressed into her body more deeply, his impressive arousal making itself known to her tense body.

“Answer the question, Ben. Who are you?” she demanded using a voice now shaky with pent-up frustration.

“I’m just a guy who’s about to make you blissfully happy,” he murmured against her eyelids. “Multiple times.”

This was wrong on so many counts. Despite the fact her body was reacting to every touch like it was the Sahara Desert and he was water, she had no right thinking about sex. Not while her parents were in grave danger.

“Ben,” she pleaded.

“Ronoff doesn’t have it,” he said before nipping at her lip.

“But you said—”

“I said Ronoff took a micro card. I didn’t realize there was another one.”

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