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Reckless Hero

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She would be mine again because I never failed a mission.

CHAPTER 10

Anna

I’d read the same paragraph six times, but still couldn’t remember a single word. Sighing, I started on it for the seventh time.

My concentration was shot and it was all his fault.

Tucker James.

Being with him had been mind-blowing.

After I left his place, I hadn’t slept a wink, my mind thoroughly consumed with memories of the sensations that had transpired.

Even now, I felt deliciously sore between the legs, a reminder of what I’d done with him.

I looked around at the other faces in the library, sure that my salacious thoughts were visible to all even though no one was paying any attention to me. Unlike me, they were actually studying.

Instead, I was too preoccupied with the realization that a friends with benefits arrangement would never work for me. I wasn’t built in a way that allowed me to keep emotions out of physical intimacy, especially not with the man who was my first and only love.

I would have to break it off with him, as soon as I mustered the courage to face him again...

Jesus, what a mess I had gotten myself into.

I turned my attention back to the textbook in front of me and tried to focus once more. I had been at the library for almost an hour and hadn’t retained anything. I needed to shake off this Tucker funk because at this rate, I would be failing all my classes soon.

With Garrett on a playdate at a friend’s house, I thought I would use the opportunity to study. Being at the library always put me in the right frame of mind to do so, but not today.

I was staring down at a diagram when I felt the air in the building change. I looked up and my eyes went straight for the entrance.

My breath caught in my throat.

Tucker was there, looking straight at me. I felt his heated gaze clear across the room, making me squirm. I was pretty certain that anyone who looked our way could see the sexual tension between us. Embarrassed, I wanted to look away, but I couldn’t take my eyes off him, especially when he started toward me.

Wordlessly, he took my hand, drawing a lazy pattern on the back of it with his thumb.

I felt that caress in my core.

He knew what he was doing to me too; I could tell by the knowing glint in his eyes. It made me wish I knew how to hide my feelings better. His knowing stare gave him too much power over me.

He gently tugged my fingers. “Come with me,” he said.

From the look in his eyes, I knew exactly what would happen if I followed him; his expression couldn’t have been more explicit.

I wanted to tell him off and walk away. To let him know his friends with benefit offer would never work.

But I was rendered speechless.

I had never been able to say no to him. Clearly that hadn’t changed.

My body actively betrayed me, my nipples hardening and probably showing right through my dress. My core had turned molten and I could feel my desire literally leaking onto my underwear.

Damn him, his fuck-me eyes, and the way they made my heart flip in my chest.

My brain valiantly tried to erect my emotional defenses, promising this would be the last time I let myself fall under his spell.

I would allow myself the pleasure of his body one last time.



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