A SEAL's Surrender (Alpha SEALs Book 3) (17 page)

That didn’t explain why Kenley had stuck around all this time.  He’d seen her once since their encounter at the condo, and it hadn’t exactly gone well.  She’d been fuming at him, and that petite little woman telling him off had gotten him harder than steel.  Something about knowing that she didn’t want anything to do with him made him want her all that much more.  He was so used to women throwing themselves at him that he didn’t know what to make of her hostility—that and the fact that he’d held her against him, yet never gotten a taste of those sweet lips.  Usually when a woman was that close, it ended very differently.

Imagining scenarios of him pinning her down and kissing her senseless had kept him up night after night ever since their first encounter at the condo.  Even going home with a woman from Anchors hadn’t fully slaked his need.  She’d provided a temporary distraction from the woman he really wanted—Kenley.  He was dying to peel off her clothes—not to mention peel away the layers of armor she’d put up.  Not that she’d fucking give him the time of day right now, let alone a damn chance.

There wasn’t much reason for her to stay in town though now that everything had died down.  Lexi was readjusting after her kidnapping and had Christopher.  Maybe Kenley just needed a vacation—her parents did own that condo by the beach he and Christopher had found her in.  Still, it had been several weeks since the entire incident.  One of these days he fully expected her to head back home.  Lexi would, too, at least temporarily until her new assignment hopefully came.

“I’m not sure.  Lexi’s trying to talk her into moving down here, too.  How crazy is that?”

“I thought she worked at the Pentagon?”

“Defense contractor in Arlington.  It’s a big company; I think they have plenty of contracts down here.”

“Perfect,” Mike muttered.

“We need to lock you two in an empty room.  No, scratch that—a room with nothing but a bed.  Let you fuck it out,” Brent laughed.

“Jesus,” Christopher groaned.  “I know she wants you to stay away from her, but can’t you at least try to make amends or something?  Lexi and I are going to be planning a wedding soon.  I don’t want Lexi stressed out every time the two of you are in the same room.”

“Yeah, yeah, I’m on it,” Mike muttered.  All he had to do was apologize to a petite, hotter-than-hell woman who loved to mouth off to him.  What a freaking spectacular night this was going to turn out to be.

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