Page 32 of Dangerous Devotion

Suddenly, a shadow flickered across the back of the truck. Her heart leaped as AJ climbed out and slipped to the ground.

She locked her hand on the gear shift, prepared to gun the car toward him. He jogged across the lot as if nothing at all happened.

The urge to shout at him, to tell him to never to take off like that and leave her sitting here worrying again, perched on her lips. As soon as he jumped into the car, he settled his hand on top of hers where it gripped the gear shift.

“Are you freakin’ insane?” she yelped.

His grin maddened her. “I got the job done.”

“You’re lucky those kids didn’t see you. Or worse, some bystander who raised the alarm about a man jumping into a military truck!”

“May. It’s all right.” He wrapped his fingers lightly around her wrist. “I got the tracker planted on the explosive. Now we know for sure where it’s going.”

She shook her head, her straight hair whipping around her shoulders. “Not the point. You scared the hell out of me!”

AJ’s eyes darkened with something more potent than adrenaline. His fingers probed the pulse point on her wrist, which only made her heart trip faster.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to freak you out. But I had to do it. It’s my job.” He leaned over the console, holding her stare prisoner with his own.

“Just don’t do it again.” Her voice came out as a breathless whisper.

Or was that a whimper?

Her heart battered her ribs in a chaotic beat. It had nothing to do with fear or how close they might have come to being caught.

All of a sudden, there were no trucks. No bombs. No mission.

Just AJ and her.

Justthem.

Then he kissed her.

SEVEN

AJ brushed his mouth over May’s, and the world tilted on its axis. Her lips were warm and demanding. Deepening the kiss, he swept over her mouth with a hunger that stole his mind.

Every thought fled as he brought a hand around her nape and drew her into the caress. With a soft moan, she let her head drop into his hand with an absolute trust that few ever gave a hard man like him.

Seconds melted into a minute as he learned how much pressure to apply to her lips and the way his fingers stretching along her scalp made her shiver.

With the tip of his tongue, he coaxed her lips apart. Her eager gasp had his cock surging against his fly. God, she tasted like the sweet soda she’d drunk and something else that drove him wild.

Angling his head, he swiped his tongue across hers…and plundered her. The dark need pulsing in his groin tripled with each pass of his mouth over hers. She anchored her hands on his shoulders, pulling her across the console he didn’t want between them for another damn minute.

He wanted her in his lap.

Naked.

Riding his cock.

Imagining how it would feel to sink into her slippery folds had him rock-fucking-hard. His groan slipped past his lips, and she answered with a stifled cry. Her sweet lips and the way she kissed him back wasn’t something he expected from May. She was so buttoned-up, almost uptight. The woman who carriedherself with prim rigidity fled, leaving this ravenous vixen he couldn’t stop kissing.

If he didn’t stop now, he wouldn’t stop ever. He’d take her right here in the parking lot in front of the chicken joint and to hell with anyone who saw them tailing the truck.

With a sharp twist, he broke the kiss.

She dropped her head forward, breathing like she’d sprinted to Fort Leonard Wood and back. He didn’t drop his hand from her head, and she didn’t release her grip on his shoulders.

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