Into the Light (The Admiral's Elite Book 2) Read Online Free PDF

back to herself, feeling Ryan’s tongue cleaning her shoulder where he’d drawn blood. With a satisfied moan, she pushed back and hinted that she wanted up. He eased back to allow her a little breathing room. His hands were slower to let go and they, as well as his tongue, continued to work languidly on her hypersensitive skin. 
     
    “Was that what you were thinking?” He teased her with his tongue, bringing his hips forward; making hints that he was willing to help her if she wanted to work at it some more.
     
    Twitching at the sensations he was causing, Gabrielle pulled away and faced him with heavy lidded eyes. “Couldn’t you tell?” She checked the flesh under her nails and winked. “I think we could both use a run. Are you too tired?”
     
    Ryan knew they weren’t done yet. She was going to be looking for more as soon as they were out the door. Impersonal sex was what she could handle and he was okay with it. He tortured himself wondering if she was like this with the other guy. The one she called out for in her sleep sometimes. Luc. He hid his displeasure by ducking his head and shaking out his shaggy auburn hair, peering up at her through it. This was the woman he’d chosen, baggage and all. With a smirk and a wink he leaned down to unlace his boots. They were his only pair and he didn’t want to lose them somewhere in the desert.
     
     
     
    Chapter 5
     
    “How long was I out?” Becca blinked back into the world, horribly embarrassed but no worse for wear. “Tell me Gabrielle didn’t see me faint?” She put her hands over her face and groaned.
     
    All signs of tension he’d been showing in the meeting were gone from Michael’s face as, chuckling, he pulled her hands away and held them. “If it helps, she felt guilty when she thought she killed you.”
     
    “No, that doesn’t help.” Becca breathed deeply into her sore lungs. She felt like she’d swallowed half a swimming pool and then coughed it back out, leaving her chest stretched and sore. Pushing herself up to a sitting position and leaning back against the short, squared-off wooden headboard, Becca let her shoulders slump. “I thought we were getting somewhere, Gabrielle and me. Now she thinks there’s some sort of thing going on between you and the admiral and I’m in the middle.” Her eyes searched his face, not missing the shadow that crossed it at mention of the admiral. Gabrielle was right, there was something going on there. “Michael,” she stopped him before he could argue, “she told me what he did during the meeting.” Hazel eyes held his darkening blues. “What’s going on?”
     
    “It’s a power play, nothing more.” He leaned in and kissed the corner of her mouth, lingering.
     
    Becca studied his features, carefully controlled and giving no sign that he was telling nothing but the truth. She felt her insides burn in warning. “Okay, if you say so.”
     
    Reclining beside her, Michael pulled her onto his chest. Becca nestled her head under his chin and sighed. After their false start, when she’d believed Black to be behind Michael’s romantic interest in her, he promised no secrets. As far as she knew, he’d honored that oath these past couple of months. It seemed they’d come to the end of their run; Michael had just lied to her. Of that she was certain.
     
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    Studying their files gave everybody who needed one an excuse to keep quiet on the plane ride to their next mission in River Falls, Wisconsin.
     
    “Pack warm,” Ryan cautioned them, confessing he’d been a Midwesterner before joining the service before the war. Although which war or which state he wouldn’t say. “It’s spring in Cali but it’ll be a few more months before the ice is off out there.”
     
    Becca had gone through her pack that morning at five, waking early and creeping down to the command center to have some alone time. Michael had gone back to his room some time in the night after she’d fallen asleep and she