Long Gone by Marliss Melton, Janie Hawkins Read Free Book Online Page B

didn’t work so well considering his presently limited cranial functioning.
    “That wouldn’t be fair to either of us, Sky. We’re going to have to travel for the next month or so. I can’t have you feeling sick on a freighter across the ocean.”
    A tear appeared at the corner of her eyes, sliding into the hair at her temple.
    Drake stilled for a second time. “What’s wrong? Talk to me, Sky.” 
    Her eyes resembled sapphire pools. “I’m not leaving the country with you, Drake,” she informed him with lament. “I’m not turning you into a fugitive.”
    Stunned, he pushed up on his hands to gaze down at her. “I’m not sending you back to WITSEC. Hell, no. We’re making a break for it.”
    She just shook her head. “No. As much as I love you and wish we could be together, I refuse to cost you your career, Drake.”
    His eyes burned with frustration as his half-formed plans went up in smoke. “Damn my father for saying that to you!” he raged.
    “I’m glad he did. It woke me up.”
    “It won’t be like that, Sky. I can find another job. I swear , I can take care of you.”
    “I know you can, but you shouldn’t have to. Just give me this moment, right now.” She ran her fingers through his hair, pulling him back down against her. “Stay with me every second, for as long as you can.”
    If she wanted to believe he could just leave her to her fate, so be it. He’d find some way to keep her safe without surrendering her to WITSEC and even without her knowing, if need be.
    “The only place I’m going right now,” he whispered, “is to heaven and back—with you.”
    Slipping a hand between their joined bodies, he teased the pulsing center of her pleasure to spur her toward release.
    “ Drake .” She raked her nails into his back, arching toward his touch. “Oh, yes!”
    “I know, Sky.” Hanging on to his self-control, he urged her to orgasm. “I’m right here with you. You’re safe now. I’ve got you.”
    With a cry, she climaxed, sobbing into the crook of his neck. In the next moment, as her muscles milked him, he joined her, giving in to the overwhelming fervor of their passion. He drove into her warmth, feeling for the first time in four years as though he were finally complete, at peace.
    With his breath still gusting, Drake cracked his eyes to find fresh tears on her face. His heart gave a throb of despair that their time was running out.
    “That’s just the first time,” he promised, feeling himself stir again. “It isn’t over yet.”
    Her eyes swept open. “It was perfect.” Tears of repletion rimmed her eyelids. “Just like I remembered.”
    Warmth spread through Drake’s body. God, I love her .   If she thought he’d let WITSEC anywhere close to her again after they’d failed so miserably to protect her, she could think again. He had friends who could do a better job than the program.
    Not only was his sister married to a Navy SEAL, but Skyler herself had nephews whose mother, Ellie, had fretted over Skyler’s circumstances for years now, and she was also married to a Navy SEAL. Between Lucy’s husband, Gus, and Ellie’s Sean, one of them surely knew a warrior willing and able to keep Skyler hidden in some remote location until the rest of the Centurions frittered away or forgot about her.
    Drake would look them up at the first opportunity. A surge of optimism lifted his spirits. He now felt like he and Sky had all the time in the world to make love.
    Kissing her thoroughly, he gave himself another minute to recover. Like warm wax, she melted around him, pliant and willing and wanting him with such bottomless yearning that he swelled with renewed desire as he pumped inside her. They strained ever closer, mouths open and hungry, bodies taut and damp with sweat.
    With every desperate plunge, Drake’s muscles clenched tighter. Urgency battled his desire to make the encounter last forever, to hold onto the magic and never let it end.
    Glimpsing her flushed, wanton