Page 84 of Covert Mission

“Knife.”

“And this?” she asks in a rough whisper.

“Shrapnel.”

I finally let myself look at her.

It’s a mistake. Those pretty hazel eyes are burning with emotion and shining with tears, and all her attention is aimed right at my face.

“I’m sorry,” she says in a voice so soft that my heart clunks.

“You can’t let it bother you.”

She goes back to searching my chest, leaving me reeling as she slides her fingers along behind her gaze. “So many.”

“I’ve been at war for a long time.”

Her throat works roughly. She flinches as she touches one particularly jagged line on my lower abdomen.

“I understand if I repulse you. I know my body is ugly.”

Camile slowly looks up at me. Gone is the sadness. Now there’s just determination in her cool hazel stare. “Lucas, stop talking.”

Her hand leaves my chest and slides up and around my neck, where she dives her fingers into my hair.

Heat spreads in the wake of her touch. A heaviness settles in my chest.

I should push her away. Young beautiful Camile deserves so much more than this.

I made one mistake today. There’s still time to stop this one from happening.

Without taking her eyes from mine, she steps into the shower. Clothing and all.

“What are you doing?”

She leans in and presses a kiss to my chest, right over my heart. “Taking you.”

I shake my head and close my eyes. “Where?”

“Away from here.”

When her mouth trails down my abs, peppering small, hot kisses, my cock surges, filling with a rush of blood.

Her small hands settle on my thighs, and I jolt to attention.

No… I can’t let her.

But when I look down, she’s already on her knees with her heavy-lidded gaze fixed on my lengthening cock.

She shivers below the spray from the shower head. When she flicks her gaze up to mine, she issues a warning. “Don’t say a word.”

“Fuck.”

A husky sound comes out of her parted lips. “Okay, you can say that. And other dirty things. It turns out I like that quite a lot.”

That makes me snap.

I grab her upper arms and hoist her off the floor. I finally do what I’ve needed to do for an hour. I crash my mouth into hers and take what I want.

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