Nori's Delta (Delta Team Three #1) - Lori Ryan Page 0,63

head. “You deserve a whole lot better than me but I’ll have to do.”

Chapter 40

Eleanor didn’t know how Heath had convinced his CO to let him come back a week and a half later when she was discharged from the rehab center, but she didn’t care. He’d been home with her for three days now and it had been heaven waking up beside him each morning.

Even if he did insist on sleeping over the covers so he wouldn’t be tempted to make love to her at night until she was ready for it.

At his pace, though, he’d keep her waiting for months and she wasn’t having that. She was still moving a little slowly, but she could handle having sex and she wanted her man.

She stepped from the shower and drew on her robe, knowing she would find Heath in the kitchen with coffee and breakfast ready for her.

Whatever he’d made was about to get cold, if she had her way.

She towel dried her hair then left it loose and padded down the hall to the kitchen.

As she approached, she undid the belt at her waist and let her robe hang open at the front.

Heath had his back to her at the stove. His muscles bunched as he stirred whatever was in the pan. His T-shirt was stretched taut over hard muscles and she couldn’t help but ogle at him, letting her eyes travel over the large bulge of his biceps. Her hands tingled with the need to pull that shirt off him and run her hands over his warm skin.

She was wet already. If she couldn’t manage to seduce him, she was going to lose her mind. This was the worst part of being shot. The waiting to have him touch her again.

She almost laughed at herself. How quickly she’d forgotten the terror and pain of that time in the tunnels with Demir. But Heath did that to her. He took away the fear and pain and kept her grounded here in the moment with him instead of back in the horror and memories of that underground nightmare.

Heath glanced over his shoulder at her, then turned away, putting his hands to either side of the stove and letting his head drop.

She heard him cursing under his breath.

Good. She was getting to him.

She walked to him and put her hands on those shoulders. God they were so hard, so damned strong. Just touching them had her wanting to press herself against him. She stepped closer, letting her body melt against his.

He cursed again and she laughed. She heard him flick off the burner and move the pan off the stove before he turned.

And then he had her.

“Are you sure you’re ready for this?” he asked, his hands gripping her shoulders as he waited for her answer.

“More than sure,” she whispered. “Please, Heath.” It was plea and prayer wrapped in one. She needed this man. Needed the connection of making love to him. Of knowing he was hers and she was his. That the years of being apart were gone.

He used the fabric of her robe to pin her arms in place as his head came down and he captured her nipple in his mouth. Having him hold her in place increased the erotic sensation and she pressed herself forward, wanting more as she moaned her response.

He went to the other nipple and sucked, then nipped with his teeth and she was lost. She felt herself growing wet for him as her body throbbed in response to his teasing.

“I want to touch you,” she panted out, wriggling to try to escape the way he’d wrapped her in the cloth.

His response was to lift her and carry her to the bedroom where he lay her back, still not loosening his hold on her arms as he trailed his mouth down her body to her belly. And then she was breathless and moaning when his mouth went lower, covering her mound, his tongue laving her clitoris in teasing circles.

He let go of the fabric now, loosening his hold on her arms as he brought his hand down and added his fingers, bringing the pleasure between her legs to a fevered pitch.

She pulled her arms up and wrapped them around his shoulders then up the back of his neck, running her fingers through that unruly hair.

She gripped him tightly as she writhed beneath him. She wanted their bodies together, closer than this, as close as they could be. But he didn’t stop and she