Special Forces Rendezvous

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Author: Elle Kennedy
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, romantic suspense
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    Everything about him teased her senses. His playful gray eyes,
the dark blond stubble coating his strong jaw, the woodsy scent of him.
    “Cat got your tongue, Doc?”
    Jeez, even his voice was sexy. Deep, with a slight rasp to
it.
    Blinking out of her stupor, Julia glanced at the thumb he’d
been holding to his lips. “Sorry, but kissing boo-boos is not part of my job
description,” she said, making an attempt to keep her tone dry. “But I should
probably clean that up for you.”
    He let out a low laugh. “That’s not necessary. It’s just a
paper cut.”
    She was already heading for the small cabinet next to the door.
“We’re in Valero,” she replied. “Even paper cuts get infected, and around these
parts, infection can lead to some pretty nasty stuff.”
    She appreciated that Sebastian didn’t argue, not even when she
rummaged in the cabinet and pulled out a small bottle of antiseptic, a piece of
gauze and a bandage.
    Heading back to the desk, she hopped up on the edge and
gestured at his hand. His dark blond eyebrows quirked for a moment, and then he
willingly gave her his hand.
    “I know it seems extreme,” she admitted as she poured some
antiseptic on the gauze and wiped the thin cut on the pad of Sebastian’s thumb.
“But just suck it up and say thank you.”
    His eyes twinkled. “Thank you.”
    A smile lifted the corners of her mouth. “Huh, I didn’t think
it would be that easy.”
    “What?”
    “You dropping the macho man protests and just accepting my
authority.”
    The grin he flashed her made her heart skip a beat. “I know
when to pick my battles.”
    “Meaning?”
    “Meaning you strike me as the type of woman who likes calling
the shots and who gets ornery as hell when she’s challenged.”
    “I am,” she confessed with a sheepish laugh.
    “Like being in control, huh?”
    “Of course.” She wrinkled her forehead. “Who wants to feel out
of control?”
    A seductive glint lit his gray eyes. “Lots of people like
relinquishing control every now and then.” He arched one brow. “Especially in
the bedroom...”
    Heat scorched her cheeks. God, had he really just said
that?
    Averting her eyes, Julia swiped the gauze over his thumb one
final time before unwrapping the bandage and sticking it on him. In an
unnaturally high voice, she squeaked, “All done,” and practically vaulted off
the desk like she was competing in the Olympics.
    His soft laughter tickled her back, which she kept turned as
she shoved the supplies into the cabinet. Her heartbeat was going haywire again,
and she had to take a moment to collect herself.
    What was up with the sexual awareness rippling over every inch
of her skin? And she could swear she felt that same awareness being radiated
from him. Which made no sense.
    Sebastian Stone was sexy as all get-out, and a man as blatantly
sensual as him would never be attracted to someone like her. She didn’t suffer
from low self-esteem—she was perfectly content with the way she looked—but she
also wasn’t delusional enough to think she was a supermodel or anything. Average
features, frizzy hair, small breasts. And after six months of working herself
ragged in Valero, she was now officially ten pounds underweight. It was hard to
find the time to eat when you worked twenty-four hours a day, seven days a
week.
    Gorgeous and glamorous she wasn’t. Nor was she overly feminine.
She didn’t wear a lick of makeup, kept her hair braided most of the time, and
she only donned the professional white coat for patients; the rest of the time,
she wore faded jeans, tank tops and beat-up sneakers.
    So why was Sebastian looking at her like he wanted to eat her
up?
    “Sorry, Doc, I don’t mean to make you uncomfortable.”
    His rueful voice stilled some of the butterflies floating
around in her stomach. “You didn’t,” she assured him, finding the courage to
meet his eyes.
    The second their gazes locked, that hiss of attraction coursed
through the air again.
    Holy

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