Amy moved toward him, and the tips of her black heels—wow, she’d worn heels for him—touched Rosie, who refused to give up her spot. Her hand brushed his cheek, a soft, suggestive caress. “I have a surprise for you.”
Mark reached for her, drawing her as close as he could manage with the Belgian Malinois between them, and rested his forehead against hers. “I’m in. Whatever it is. I’m dying to make love to you, Amy. I want to dance with you until dawn.”
“Then we really need to get out of here,” she said, her voice low and husky.
“We’ll need to find a hotel.” He wished he’d taken the time to book something nice for her before he came home. But it had felt as if he was tempting fate. What if he booked a room for his homecoming and she bailed—or worse, he didn’t make it back?
“No, we don’t,” she said. “I rented a house for us. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s near the base, and the owner agreed to let Rosie live there, too, for an extra deposit.”
“We have a house?” He heard the awe in his voice.
“That’s the surprise.” She placed her hands flat against his chest, covering his thundering heart. “It’s nothing fancy, and it’s only temporary, but I wanted you to come back to a real home.”
Mark stared down into her blue eyes—so damn beautiful, and all his. The emotions threatened to overwhelm him—awe, gratitude and, most of all, love.
“And it came furnished,” she continued, running her hands down his chest, over his abdomen. If she kept going, he might be tempted to cause one hell of a scene. “There’s a great big bed waiting for us.”
Mark captured her wrists. “I hope you’re wearing your lucky underwear.”
“I might be.”
“I can’t wait to find out.”
Wrapping one arm around Amy and holding Rosie’s leash in his other hand, Mark led them to the exit. “Let’s go home.”
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Prologue
THEY NEEDED MONEY. Desperately. But was it worth risking his life?
The moment Jackson Duchane had seen Lancaster Diving’s battered, outdated equipment piled on the docks in Mobile, Alabama, that nasty sensation of impending doom had begun to crawl across his shoulders.
An oil company had hired the Lancaster team to blast away a thick layer of rock blocking access to a new line they wanted to drill in the Gulf. Easy enough. Or it should have been.
This was what he got for subcontracting to a diving company he’d never worked with before.