Enigma: Prologue to Live Wire by Lora Leigh Read Free Book Online Page B

room and faced him where the sheer power of his presence would hopefully be diluted.
    “God, Tehya!” He raked his fingers through his hair, the long, silken strands falling around his face with such male, sensual disarray that she had to clench her fingers at the overwhelming need to run them through it again.
    “Don’t do this, Jordan.” She had to get away from him, she had to hold back the tears. “Don’t make this harder for me than it already is. Just leave.”
    Over the years, that was all she had done, held back her emotions, held back her dreams, hell, she had held back her life on the hope, the dream, that something more than blood could fill her future.
    But her time here was over. The Elite Ops was shutting down and the new team coming in didn’t need her. They had their own people, their own specialties. No one needed the daughter of a white slaver, a daughter that had been specially bred for the depraved sexual hungers of the man he had envisioned her going to.
    She had no special training. She had no true education. She was an outcast, plain and simple. Unlike the other members of the team, there wasn’t a happily ever after waiting for her when she walked out the doors of the base.
    There would be no family waiting on her. There were no friends she could find. She would have a new identity, but she had no idea what the hell to do with it.
    She watched as he shrugged his shirt on and buttoned it with quick, angry movements. She couldn’t miss the anger, it glowed in his eyes, tightened in his body.
    “I don’t want to lose contact with you.” He seemed to be forcing the words out.
    He was placating her and she hated that.
    She nodded slowly. “I’m sure we won’t. We have friends in common. Hell, you can always call, right?”
    She doubted he would, despite the fact that he had approved the members of the team keeping the satellite phones they had been assigned, as well as the numbers.
    As she stared back at him, the only thing she had left to go to began to formulate in her mind, to solidify. She had held back from the promise she had made to herself when she was younger. She had given up on the only thing that had kept her going until Jordan. And that was something she knew how to do. It was something she didn’t need Jordan to help her with, didn’t need him to be a part of.
    She still had the fragment of a dream, the Elite Ops had at least given her the ability to walk away safe.
    “Tehya.” The sound of his voice, the regret returning, was tearing her apart.
    She didn’t want this. She should have never pushed him, she should have walked out of here and kept the dreams rather than the reality.
    Touching him, being touched by him, feeling the first orgasm of her life that she hadn’t given herself, would destroy her now. Because she knew what it could be. She knew what she was losing, and it would haunt her every day of her life.
    “I need some time.” She swallowed tightly.
    “I can give you time.” He nodded slowly. “But not indefinitely, Tehya. The time will come when we’ll talk about this.”
    No, it wouldn’t. When the transportation team arrived to haul away her belongings, she would already be gone. She couldn’t stay here, couldn’t bear to see him, even another moment. If she didn’t leave before morning came, then she would beg. And God knew she didn’t want to beg for a love he couldn’t give her.
    “Of course we will.” She crossed her arms over her breasts and turned away from him as she moved to the open kitchen. “We’ll talk.”
    They wouldn’t talk, because there was truly nothing for them to talk about.
    “I’ll see you in the morning,” he stated.
    And Tehya nodded. It was another lie. They wouldn’t talk in the morning, he wouldn’t see her in the morning, because she wouldn’t be here.
    She didn’t hear him move, she felt him move. She felt him coming closer to her, tensed, knowing that the connection to him would be severed forever once