Page 44 of Inevitable
I smiled into the darkness.
He hadn’t known I was the mother of his child when he’d come for me, and he operated Last Hope out of the headquarters in San Diego. He ran missions, but he wasn’t usually a participant in the actual recovery.
I knew he’d involved himself in my rescue because he knew me and it was somehow personal to him. Maybe it had been years since we’d seen each other, but he’d still felt some sense of obligation to rescue me himself.
Thatwas the Colin I’d known and adored.
The man with a big heart that he rarely showed to anyone.
He hadn’t changed a bit.
He’d just convinced himself that he had, and that he was a totally humorless asshole without the same heart.
“I’m still going to thank you,” I said lightly. “You saved my life.”
“I guess I forgot how damn stubborn you can be,” he said unhappily.
“You used to like that about me,” I teased.
“Fuck!” he cursed as he wrapped his arms around me and rolled on top of me. “I think I still do, but I shouldn’t.”
My breath caught and my body instantly responded to the feel of his warm, massive body intimately connected to mine.
I was wearing a summer nightgown, and all of that skin-to-skin contact with Colin made my heart skip a beat.
God, he still felt so good.
He still smelled so deliciously incredible.
I automatically wrapped my arms around his neck to get even closer to him.
My body still craved him like an addictive drug, and it was a temptation that was too difficult to ignore.
“Kiss me,” I whispered before I could stop those words from escaping my lips. “Please. Just once.”
It would be a stupid thing to do, but at the moment, I didn’t care.
I was feeling things I hadn’t felt for fourteen long years, and I wanted to feel the way I had with Colin all those years ago.
I’d been so consumed with being a mother and with building my career that I’d forgotten what it felt like to just be a woman with the normal desires of a female.
I wanted to remember.
Just for a moment.
Colin hesitated for a moment, but an instant later he lowered his head and captured my lips in an embrace that rocked my entire world.
He was a man that did nothing without throwing himself into whatever he did wholeheartedly.
His kiss was no different.
He devoured my mouth like it was his only mission in life, and I reveled in that passion.
Colin explored my mouth with a thoroughness that took my breath away, like it was the first time he’d ever touched me this way.
Greedily.
And with a slight desperation that made my heart soar.
