Page 68 of Mountain Security

“I’m so close. Please come inside me.”

Her words tipped him over the edge. He exploded inside her, the clenching of her pussy extending his orgasm, making it go on and on.

Yvette shifted beneath him, bringing him back to earth.

Shit.

I must be squashing her.

But she wasn’t complaining. Her eyes were hooded with pleasure and she wore a sated, lazy smile.

“That was …”

“It was,” Alex said. For the first time in his life, he didn’t have to worry about a condom. He pulled out carefully, amazed at the magnified feelings swirling inside him.

“You’re incredible, Yvette,” he said.

Her smile grew wider. She pulled the duvet around both of them, trapping them in a cocoon of warmth. “We’re pretty incredible together.”

Together …

The word triggered thoughts inside him that weren’t altogether unpleasant.

What would it be like to be with Yvette?

Would someone like her even consider dating someone like him?

Could there be a future for the two of them?

His jaw and his muscles hardened.

Not until you discover who’s after her.

Not until you stop them.

When he thought of how close he’d come to losing her today … He swallowed hard, trying to dispel the ugly thought.

“Alex?” she asked, sensing the change in him. “Are you okay?”

He nodded, then shook his head.

Fuck it, I’m done pretending.

“No,” he growled. “I’m not okay. When I saw you open that package … when I think there could have been a real bomb inside … I don’t think I would have survived losing you.”

Yvette gave a soft smile. “You certainly wouldn’t have survived, the way you jumped on me and protected me with your own body.”

“Don’t joke about this, Yvette.”

“I’m not joking,” she said, opening her arms and bringing him flush against her body. Alex settled against her curves, close enough that he could feel her beating heart. “I never said thank you.”

“No need to thank me,” he said. “There was no bomb.”

“But you didn’t know that.”

“I didn’t know that,” he acknowledged. He pulled his face up, staring into her dark, fathomless eyes. “Are you okay?”

“Still a bit shell-shocked,. I keep thinking there’s been some mistake, that Théo can’t really be involved …”

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