Page 16 of Enforced Love

Chapter Six

Seven stressful days. That was as long as I lasted. Once we’d arrived in the fifth that night, it was a little easier. I could focus on learning our sector and what to watch for, who to keep an eye on. I’m a fast learner. The only bad thing was once they got a look at me, they’d started making the same calculations.

It was edgy here. A dark vibe seemed to pulse in the air around us, and despite the sexual tension that resonated between the three of us, we were an awesome team. Solid. When the first attempt to take me occurred at the end of the first week, we were more than prepared. It appeared a lot of men viewed women as the weaker of the sexes. I was more than happy to wake them up, and I was still riding high when the three of us made it back to the shuttle.

“Did you see his face when I took him down?” I said, my face shining with triumph.

“I saw his face when you rubbed against him and simpered,” Dracon drawled.

“You see that look in the mirror a lot, don’t you?” I retorted, and he grunted, but I saw the grin on his face.

“What the hell were you thinking?” Heath exploded.

“Please, he wasn’t even a blip on my radar,” I said. “He never had a chance.”

“What if he wasn’t alone?” Heath yelled. “What if he’d had reinforcements with him?”

“He didn’t,” I said for what felt like the umpteenth time.

“What if—”

I stepped forward and put my hand over Heath’s mouth. “We can’t play ‘what if’,” I said softly. “And if he had reinforcements it wouldn’t have mattered because I have you and Dracon.”

His mouth nuzzled my palm, and my resolve to withhold any type of sexual response to them vanished at the first flick of his tongue on my skin. “I don’t know what I’d do if something happened to you.”

I sighed. “How can we set the example if you’re always worried about me? How can we show we’re a viable team if you don’t even trust in us? In me?”

“I do trust us, you,” Heath began, but I shook my head.

“No, you don’t,” I replied. “Not really. You want to. In your head, you want to. But the Alpha in you won’t let you. You feel a need to protect me, and we can’t function like that.”

He sighed.

“I know you can kick ass,” Dracon drawled from behind us.

“That’s only because you’ve been on the other side of my ass-kicking skills,” I said with a saucy smile.

“So kick his ass already,” Dracon said, and his eyes darkened with lust. “Before we all explode.”

My turn to sigh. He was right, though I’d never admit it to him. Part of our problem was sexual tension’s tight grip on us all. Dracon wanted me. He made no bones about that. He was wired a lot like me, just as Heath had noticed. Dracon got angry, exploded then moved on, a perfect reflection of how I reacted. Being forced to live and work so closely together over the last week, I’d learned a lot about them and me.

Heath was a whole different game. I could tell he more than lusted after me. He didn’t love me, but he cared for me, and he was struggling with that. I could easily develop feelings for him, as well. But Heath tended to keep his impressions locked inside. He let things build and build, and even when he did blow, he didn’t quite let his emotions go. They were always there under the surface.

“I need you to trust me, not only to take care of myself but to have your back, as well,” I told Heath. “You can’t just say it, but you need to believe it.”

“I’m trying,” Heath said. “Believe me, I am.”

He was. I knew that. It would just take a little more time. He was wired as a protector, which made him the perfect Enforcer but not the greatest lover for a female Enforcer. Too bad. We would just have to deal with it, because I was so horny from the adrenaline in my system after the fight that I couldn’t hold out any longer.

“So try harder,” I said, knowing I sounded a lot like Dracon when I said it.

Dracon snickered, and Heath shook his head, but a smile tugged at his lips.

“And in the meantime, maybe, we could celebrate my first takedown on this mission.”

I grabbed his head and pulled him down to me. He let me control the kiss but wrapped his arms around me and pulled me into his body. His erection pressed my lower belly, and I went on my tiptoes to gain the inches I needed to place it just where I wanted it. I rubbed against him and gasped as his hard cock pressed against my clit.

“Damn, Emma,” he moaned. “I’ve missed you.”

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