SEAL's Desire (Alpha SEALs Coronado #1) - Makenna Jameison Page 0,45
haven’t even left yet, and I already miss you.”
His eyes softened. “Who said I’m going anywhere?” he asked, thumbing a stray tear away. “We’re flying back to the States together, remember?”
“Well yes, but only for a few days. I have to fly home to Texas at some point.”
“So, I’ll come visit you in Texas. Or you can come visit me. Aren’t you off for the summer or something? Maybe you can do some research in California instead of Colombia. Take samples of the Pacific if you want.”
“Yeah, maybe.” She let out a small laugh but shrugged helplessly as a few tears slid down her cheeks.
“Hell, sweetheart. I don’t want this to end just because we’re leaving. I mean, the mission I’m happy to be done with, but you? I never thought I’d meet anyone like you.”
“This is crazy though,” she protested.
“Why?”
“We hardly know each other. We just met a few days ago.”
He pulled her into his arms, his lips at her ear. Blake’s strength and heat surrounded her, and she could feel the hard planes of his chest, the muscles in his arms, and his thickening erection as he held her close.
“I know you’re the most amazing woman I’ve ever met,” he said, his voice gravel. “I know what you sound like when you come. What you look like in my arms. And I know I won’t be happy until your body is beneath mine, and I’m buried inside you as we make love under the stars.”
She gasped, and he softly kissed her on the tender skin behind her ear.
“You’re mine, Clarissa. You may not know it yet, but one way or another, we’ll work this out. We’ll be together. Because I don’t have the strength to let you go.”
Chapter 19
Blake stretched his legs out on the flight back, Clarissa asleep at his side. Jackson smirked at him from across the aisle, but Grayson gave him the thumbs up. “The women of San Diego will be bummed you’re off the market,” Troy quipped. “But at least we can all go to Salty Sunset again.”
Ethan chuckled. “But Gray is into that chick from the country bar. We’ll have to head there one night.”
Grayson waggled his eyebrows. “As soon as we land and debrief, I’m texting Shawna. Hell, I’ve been dreaming about her gorgeous curves. The way she fills out her waitressing uniform is sinful.”
“A little late-night booty call?” Logan asked. “Guess you can’t go wrong with that.”
Blake shook his head, letting his fingers trail through Clarissa’s hair. She’d seemed embarrassed when she and Blake had walked up to the plane together early that morning, but the guys hadn’t given her a hard time. And he’d let them know in no uncertain terms earlier that she was his.
She was a part of the team now, whether she knew it or not. The rest of the guys may have been single, but Blake had watched his friends on the Alpha SEAL team in Little Creek all meet women one by one over the years. Damn. He never thought his own crazy crew would end up like them, but here he was. Leading the way with a woman at his side and happy as hell.
He sure saw the appeal of being with a single woman once you met the one.
He paused for a moment. Was she the one? He’d been chasing after pretty girls for years, half of his lifetime, really. At thirty-two, he’d resigned himself to being single. At least while he served as a Navy SEAL. But damn. The past few days with Clarissa had been like a punch to the gut.
Blake realized that he’d been missing out on a whole entire part of his life. He couldn’t imagine not seeing her again, not touching her, or never making love to her once she was ready. Being with an endless stream of anonymous women held no appeal for him anymore.
Clarissa was the one he wanted to hold in his arms, wake up with in the morning, and make cry out his name night after night. She was the one he needed in his life and in his bed.
The hours flew by way too quickly, Clarissa content to sleep at his side, and before he knew it, they were already coming in for a landing back in California.
“I can’t believe I slept for most of the flight,” Clarissa murmured, rubbing her eyes.
“You needed your rest,” Blake said, pressing a kiss to her temple. “There’s going to be an ambulance standing by when we