Challenging Gabriel (Knight Security 2) by Carole Mortimer Read Free Book Online Page A

would only complicate an already unbearable situation.
    “What did you and your brothers decide is the best way to approach this?” she prompted instead of answering him.
    Gabriel’s mouth thinned at her obvious attempt to change—divert?—the subject. “Asher is headstrong and wanted to go in guns blazing. My brother-in-law, Jonas, favored a stealthier approach, as did Caleb. Ethan is more laid-back, despite the fact he and Caleb are twins, and suggested we call Sinclair and give him the chance to return Daniel and Lena without bloodshed.”
    Angel’s eyes were wide as she looked up at him. “And you?”
    “All of them. None of them.” Gabriel sighed heavily. “I’m like you. I just want Daniel back.”
    “And Lena.”
    He nodded. “My brothers have gone away to start a background check on Sinclair and to set up surveillance on his homes and yachts. Maybe we’ll get lucky. We’ll also need the memory stick you have so we can give it to our computer geek. He’ll break any codes, find out where Sinclair’s operations are based.”
    “Do you have enough manpower to do all this?”
    “Knight Security employs over fifty ex-military men as well as other personnel. I also have several other people I can call on to help. Knight Security is setting every other client aside that we safely can and concentrating all our resources on this.”
    “Thank you.”
    His eyes glittered. “I’m not doing this for you. I’m doing it for Daniel. For Lena. And me,” he added grimly.
    Angel looked down at his chest, unable to withstand the intensity of that contemptuous emerald gaze a second longer. “What do you want me to do?”
    “Stay out of my way,” he ground out.
    She flinched at the vehemence of his tone. “Of course.”
    “Starting tomorrow.” His arms tightened about her, molding her softer curves against his much harder ones, and making Angel fully aware of the hard length of his cock pressing against her abdomen. “Right now, I want—need, for us both to get naked, so I can fuck your brains out.”
    Not the most romantic of seductions, but nevertheless, Angel could feel herself melting at the words, inside as well as out, and her resistance along with it.
    What could it hurt to be with Gabriel one more time? Just one more time? To know the mindlessness of his complete possession?
    “That wasn’t a request, Angel,” Gabriel rasped as he released her and stepped back.
    Her mouth went dry as she was once again the unrelenting focus of those piercing green eyes. “This isn’t a good idea, Gabriel.”
    His smile was hard, uncompromising. “You knew that when you came to me. You came anyway.”
    “Because I have no one else to turn to! Because—because you’re Daniel’s father.” She knew it was the wrong thing to say as soon as she had said it.
    Gabriel’s expression became even darker, fiercer. “Take off your clothes.”
    “But—” She swallowed. “I’m not that same young girl, Gabriel. I-I’ve had a baby,” she reminded him, only to wince as Gabriel’s expression turned murderous.
    “I’m well aware of that.” A nerve pulsed in his tightly clenched jaw. “Now take your damned clothes off.”
    She shook her head stiffly. “I can’t.”
    “You will,” he assured with certainty. “Oh, for fuck’s sake!” he muttered as she continued to shake her head, all trace of that urbane man in his office earlier today completely gone and replaced with a savagery that caused a shudder of anticipation down the length of Angel’s spine. “We’ll do it together.” He pulled his T-shirt over his head, tousling his hair even further, before tossing the black tee onto the carpeted floor and straightening.
    Angel drew her breath in sharply as the many scars showed white and vicious against his tanned chest and arms. Even more scars than there had been eight years ago. Not that they detracted from the power of that six feet five inches of pure muscle. Rather they added to it, as physical