swept across it, making it tingle and ache with need even more as he licked and sucked on the other.
He was so incredibly hot as she ran her hands through his hair and savored the feel of his body thrusting against hers, making her come as he rubbed against her cleft. She hadn’t believed anyone could make her orgasm like this, fully clothed and lying on a bed of sand under the cloudy sky at night, with the sound of the surf serenading them.
Feeling the climax hit, she cried out, her words caught on the breeze and washed out to sea, the orgasm rippling through her like a gigantic wave of pleasure.
He suddenly stilled as Meara thought she heard a footstep on the wooden stairs to the beach. Her heart nearly gave out.
“Hello?” a woman called out from up near the house, and Meara shoved at Finn to get him off her.
But he was already moving as fast as he could to distance himself from Meara.
Hell, Meara thought, what was I thinking? She hadn’t been. And although she’d thought Finn was a fairly sensible guy, she was now thinking otherwise. She sure hadn’t been in her right mind to allow it to go that far!
***
“Down here,” Finn said to Anna Johnson as she called to them from the cliff while he thought of taking a quick dip in the ocean to cool off his libido.
“Who is it?” Meara whispered, trying to get her bra and blouse back into place.
He could have kicked himself for what had happened between them. If Anna hadn’t arrived, he wasn’t sure just how far he would have taken this. Ever since he’d arrived at Meara’s place, he’d had an overwhelming need to do more than just ensure her safety. He couldn’t put his finger on what it was, although all the team members had been fascinated with her and none had dared cross Hunter by approaching her. But now?
She was his to protect, and somewhere along the line, that had turned into an uncontrollable need to possess. He brushed the sand off his trousers, not believing how easily he could lose control over himself when it came to her.
“It’s Anna Johnson,” he said to Meara, his lust-filled thoughts finally clearing enough to answer her. “She was supposed to stock the place with groceries. Earlier .”
His contact ran down the stairs and then strolled across the sand.
“Well, I see you made yourself at home,” Anna said to Finn, joining them on the beach, her auburn hair pulled back into a ponytail and swinging with her walk. A black windbreaker hid her shoulder holster, while her matching trousers covered up a knife and a spare gun. The only part of her outfit that wasn’t holding a weapon was a tight-fitting tank top clinging provocatively to well-rounded breasts that would easily distract any man from looking elsewhere.
Even with all her weaponry well hidden, she appeared dangerous, Finn thought. But maybe that was because he knew her so well. Knew how easily she could disarm a man. Knew how stealthily she could move. How deadly she could really be.
She looked Meara over, and he understood Anna well enough to recognize that she was checking to see if Meara looked as though she had been fooling around with Finn when he had a job to do and seduction wasn’t part of the mission. Meara’s hair had been knotted behind her head but was now half hanging out of the knot and draping over her shoulders as if she had indeed experienced a tumble with a man. Sand stuck to her clothes where it would not have collected if she had been sitting on the bench the whole time. And her expression and flushed cheeks indicated she was guilty as charged. Yeah, she looked as though they’d been making out.
Everyone knew Hunter wouldn’t go for it if he learned the truth. Meara hooking up with one of the members of the team was too risky, Hunter would say. He wanted his sister to have a mate who lasted longer than any of them might if they continued to take care of dangerous business like they were bound to do. That was one of the reasons Finn was so surprised
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