Blown Away: A Small Town Military Romance (The Moore Brothers Book 1) by Abby Brooks Read Free Book Online

and taste her. She paused, frozen, so close to him.
    When she finally rocked back onto her heels, he saw his lust reflected on her face, but there was also something else, too. Guilt? Fear? Yah, that was it. Juliet was scared.
    And of course she was. The whole reason she showed up in Bliss in the first place was because she was running from some asshole. Full on leaving the state kind of running. He’d noticed her plates at the rest stop last night. New York. What could possibly have happened that had her needing to put several hundred miles and almost five states between her and this guy?
    Juliet smiled and hid the fear on her face and Ian didn’t let on that he’d even seen it. Confusion drew her eyebrows together and she scanned the cars parked on the street. “Where’s your car?”
    Ian pointed to his truck—a Toyota Tundra TRD Pro with every single option known to man—parked right across the street. “Right where I left it.”
    Her eyes lit with surprise. “Of course you have a truck. Where’s the power car?”
    “Power car?” Ian knew she was talking about the M4 she’d seen him in last night, but he just wanted to hear her talk some more.
    “Yah, you know, the sleek and shiny thing you rolled up in last night. The one that says I’m a man who wields money and power and you should all show me proper respect ?”
    “Is that what you think it says?”
    “You don’t think it says that?”
    This woman was something else. Of course that’s the whole reason he chose to drive the M4 last night. He liked rolling up to his parents’ house in style. They’d been supportive when he joined the Navy, but they’d not been happy. They’d been even less happy when he was sent overseas to fly fighters, and even less happy than that when he’d been sent home, injured, with his honorable discharge. That’s not totally true. They were distraught that he was injured, but they were over the moon thrilled to have him home and alive. Especially given the severity of his accident. It’s not every day that someone crash lands a plane and manages to walk away with no more than a back injury. Not everyone gets to be that lucky. Ian knew that all too well.
    And they were just as over the moon thrilled to know his military career was over. And even though he knew that all their reticence over his chosen career came from the fact that they loved him so damn much, he’d resented not having their full support when he first enlisted. Flying planes had been his dream since before he could talk. So, when he started making money investing the income from his rental properties, he promptly bought the car just to help solidify the fact that he was okay. If there was one thing the Moore family understood, it was money.
    Juliet was waiting for his response. He shrugged and brought out his best smile. “I know exactly what that car says.”
    “I see, and just what, exactly, is that?”
    “It says get in your car and follow my sexy truck to your new home.”
    Juliet laughed and Ian opened the car door for her, shaking his head as Lulu jumped in and parked herself in the passenger seat. He practically sprinted across the street and stepped up into the truck. As he led Juliet through the streets of Bliss—out of the little section of shops and restaurants the inhabitants affectionately called downtown and through the neighborhoods to get to the more remote area where he bought his beachfront properties—Ian went through a mental checklist of Things to Do.
    He’d have her sign a lease, but he wouldn’t really do anything with it. Just seemed like it be a better idea to keep this feeling like a business relationship. It was already going to be hard enough to keep his eyes off her tight little body. Well, not just his eyes. He’d like his whole body all over that tight little body.
    So, the lease. He’d draw up a lease, make a few amendments to it so it was clear she owed him nothing but help on getting the place in order. He