Time Thief (The Anomaly Trilogy) by Anna Hackett Read Free Book Online Page B

Sean’s other thigh. Her fingers massaged his tense flesh. “I didn’t tell you to make you angrier. I got away when they tried to stuff me in a van. After that, I knew I needed to cool off. To plan. And I realized I didn’t want to just kill him, I want to make him miserable before I eventually take his life.”
    She was so beautiful. Her pretty, earnest face, her green eyes and her ferocious spirit. Even talking about murder, Sean wanted her so badly.
    “Sean?”
    Something in him was drawn to her, begged him to lose himself in her. For a few hours. Days. Hell, maybe longer.
    He wanted to forget blood and death, forget revenge and feel something clean and fresh.
    She’s hurt, remember? He jerked to his feet. “I’m going to hit the shower.”
    Something moved in her eyes and her cheeks flushed. She stood and her towel slipped. His heart clenched.
    She tightened the towel with a quick hand. “Right. I’ll just…get dressed. I’m sorry for getting too close and about before in the bathroom. I know you’d never want a time thief.”
    He had a painful hard-on and she thought he didn’t want her? “You don’t know anything.”
    He wanted to prove her wrong, but the need to look after her was stronger. He forced himself to head for the bathroom.
     

Chapter Six
     
     
     
    Bay stood in the middle of the bedroom waiting for her flushed cheeks to cool. Her instinct was to run. Get away from Sean Archer and his compelling gray eyes.
    She grabbed the clothes Matt had left. Too big for her but they’d do for now. Sean was drowning in his guilt, anger and sorrow. One of these days it would overrun his military self-control and get him killed.
    Oh, but she understood. Her hands dropped to her sides. She’d been in his shoes, was still there. Living and breathing for the chance to make Gabriel Leven pay.
    They were certainly a pair.
    “You don’t know anything.” Had he meant what she thought he meant?
    She let her instincts take over. The man was definitely attracted to her. Time thief or not. She fiddled with the edge of the towel. Even now her breasts felt full, her nipples hard, just from being close to him. Remembering his caresses.
    Just get dressed, Bay. Leave him to his demons. She chewed on her lip.
    She couldn’t leave him. For lots of reasons, but only one mattered the most. She wanted him. For the first time in years, she wanted something just for herself.
    Letting the towel drop, she headed for the bathroom.
    Steam clouded the room. His strong silhouette showed through the glass of the shower stall. One hand was pressed to the tiles, his head down, hot water pounding over him.
    When she opened the shower door, his head shot up.
    Boiling gray eyes widened but he didn’t say anything. His gaze drifted down her naked body, lingering. Where he looked, she burned for his touch.
    But he didn’t touch. Didn’t close the distance.
    So she did.
    She stepped inside, the hot spray hitting her skin. She took her time studying his battle-scarred body. He was tanned skin over tight muscles. He had several older white scars and one newly healed pink one on his chest. Wide shoulders narrowed to trim hips and a heavily ridged stomach. Below that, his thick erection jutted between muscular thighs.
    “You need me,” she said.
    “But you don’t need me.” His hands curled into fists. “You should be resting.”
    “I know my strength, Sean. I’m fine.” She ran a finger down the center of his chest. Touched the ridge of his scar. “Why don’t we forget for a while?”
    His face contorted. “You just want to fuck? Go at it like bunnies?”
    He was still trying to run her off. “No. I want to touch you, pleasure you. Remind you that there’s more than anger and hatred.”
    The tendons in his neck strained.
    “I get a regular birth control shot.” No way she’d risk bringing a child into her crazy life. “And I’m healthy.”
    He sucked in a deep breath. “Me too.”
    “You have to say yes.” She