Flirting With Fate by Lexi Ryan Read Free Book Online

herself come.
    And then she’d bitched at him for not watching?
Yeah, bitched at him, then turned around and chewed his ass for being in her
house to begin with. He had a feeling that had been a lose-lose situation all
around. She called him dickless for not watching, but she’d have thought him an
ass if he had.
    Hell, didn’t she understand he’d wanted to? She
had to have known, or she wouldn’t have done it. What a fucking turn-on it was
to see a woman pleasure herself. It was the sign of a woman who liked sex, knew
her body, and appreciated the way it could make her feel.
    “Get your head in the game, Wiley, or you’re gonna
get your ass shot.”
    Tanner looked down and blinked. Hell, he hadn’t
even made himself invisible, which was pretty much his only defense against
these bastards and their bad ass powers.
    He concentrated and put up his shield of
invisibility, and Darian said, “Do you want to talk about it?”
    Fernandez shot a glare over his shoulder. “We’re
about to have our asses handed to us. Please, save this sissy shit for later.”
    Tanner ignored him. “Can you explain women to me?”
    Fernandez snorted. “He is a Nobel Laureate in
physics and has supernatural powers. He’s not omniscient.” He set his jaw and
added, “Hell, I don’t think God himself even understands women.”
    Darian chuckled. “The man has a point.”
    Darkness descended around them and Fernandez
released a stream of curses that made even Tanner wince. “How the hell is it
fair to put the light manipulator on the same team as the guy with night
vision?” Fernandez grumbled before crawling out into the open. “Got you,
bastard,” he said and seconds later, they had light again.
    Fernandez ran back to cover with his team. “What?”
he said when Tanner and Darian looked at him. “I made the night vision guy
shoot the light manipulator.” He wiped off his hands. “Problem solved.”
    “Risky but profitable,” Tanner said, approving.
    Darian turned to Tanner. “So, is Josie giving you
trouble?”
    Tanner groaned. The sound of her goddamn name and
he was hard again. “She has no idea what she does to me.”
    “It’s for the best, man,” Fernandez said,
apparently deciding the conversation needed his input after all. “If women knew
how much power they really have over us, we’d be doing laundry, rubbing feet,
and handing over the credit card the rest of our lives.”
    Tanner shook his head. “I think I’ve just waited
too long with her. It’s too late now.” Six months he’d wanted her and hadn’t
had the balls to make a move. And now he’d made a mess of it.
    “It’s only too late if you let it be,” Darian
said. “Cover me?” Tanner did, rolling invisibly to an opening and firing while
Darian ran behind the next tree. “If you want her, you need to stop hesitating.
Just kiss her already.”
    Decades-old insecurity gnawed at Tanner. But he
wasn’t the filthy foster kid with all the funky bruises anymore. Just kiss
her already.
    He smiled, thinking about taking her by surprise,
finally getting to taste her, pulling her body against his.
    “Tanner!” Darian warned.
    Tanner realized he’d dropped his invisibility in his
distraction. He focused to put it back up, but it was too late. The purple ball
of paint slammed into his right shoulder and exploded.

Chapter Four
     
    Josie stared down at her notes, then ran her hand
over her face. She’d been spending hours each night decoding the hidden messages
in her mother’s journal and still had pages of code to break.
    Something told her she needed to act quickly,
decode the whole message, but her eyes were crossing. She slammed her hand
against the table. She should have seen the pattern years ago.
    When Marilyn Bovard and her husband had been
murdered ten years ago, she’d left behind a daughter with an IQ of 160. She’d
known her daughter was capable of seeing the complex pattern of words and
letters that encrypted her message, but even a