Hawk pulled her up the driveway to the house. Dropping their shoes at the door, he led her inside and upstairs. The top level of the house was filled with as much light and sunshine as the lower level and Cass looked around, checking out the rooms as they walked past them.
He stopped at the end of the passage and turned to her. “This is our room. Hope you don’t mind sharing.” Her blush made him smile, and he pushed open the door. The only solid wall loomed behind the huge bed head that seemed to take up half of the room.
Cass stepped in and glanced out the windows that made up the other two walls with an uninterrupted view of the ocean. “This is fantastic.”
“I like to think it’s pretty special. The bathroom is through there.” Hawk pointed to the open doorway and watched her walk in to investigate. The sound of her approval met his ears and he followed her in. She stood looking at the shower stall. Thick one way glass jutted out over the edge of the house giving the effect of standing over the ocean. A large built-in shower head covered the area big enough for a family of six to bathe together.
“I think we should try it out. What do you say?” He waited for her answer while his body woke up with the mere thought of having sex with her in here.
Cass undid the button on her shorts and stepped out of them. Her panties followed and she lifted her top over her head, dropping it on the marble floor. She turned and walked over to the shower. Hawk watched; his gaze on her naked butt and long legs as she looked at the shower controls. He reached out to the wall panel just inside the bathroom door and pressed the setting. A wall of water fell from the ceiling and she looked around at him, a smile of pleasure on her face before stepping under the deluge.
Hawk dropped his shorts and followed her. Standing in this shower was the biggest buzz for him. After days of lying in wait for a target, weeks without showering and being clean, this was one of his favorite places to go when he made it home. He’d have to tell Cass this wasn’t a rental sooner or later but for now he wanted to keep that to himself. The house had an air of secrecy on the island and it suited him and the boys well. They all visited at some stage or other for much needed down time and to get their heads together after major missions. Convincing them to leave him alone for two weeks had cost him dearly but it was going to be worth it if he could convince Cass they had a future together.
He reached for the soap on a shelf and pumped a couple of squirts into his hand. Rubbing them together until they lathered up, he slid them down her back and cupped her butt massaging the soap into the pale skin. Cass turned around and hooked her arms around his neck. She trailed her fingers down his chest, leaning down to flick her tongue over his nipple, laughing when he groaned.
“Toughen up, Hawk. You can face danger I can’t even dream of but you go weak at the touch of my tongue on your body. Such a softie at heart.” She traced a finger over a white line on his jaw line. “I didn’t notice this before. What happened?”
“Hmm, that one would be a fist fight with a rogue Serbian general.”
“This one?” She touched the puckered indentation on his right arm where a bullet had torn through the muscle on a previous mission.
“Bullet. No big deal.”
She raised an eyebrow at his words, the water trickling down her face. “Really? It’s a big deal to me. Turn around. I want to see what else you have in the way of injuries from the job.”
Hawk turned around and put his arms on the glass, looking out over the ocean while she continued to inspect his skin. The scar on his hip would throw her off. He could barely stand to look at it. It wasn’t only Pedro who had been hurt that day. Hawk had almost died along with his second-in-command. Of course he blamed himself. He should have known the insurgents would booby-trap the man they were trying to rescue. It was how they worked but with no other option and the real risk of the prisoner being executed, Hawks team had been sent in.
Her gentle touch soothed him, settling the demons that reared their ugly heads. “Shrapnel, in case you were wondering. Two weeks in a German hospital before I could come home. These things are going to happen, Cass. You have to know and be ready for them.”
She leaned against his wet back, wrapping her arms around his chest. “I’m doing my best to understand, honestly I am. You have to give me time, Hawk.”
He looked at the breaking waves through the glass and wondered if he would be able to convince her to stay past this holiday. She deserved more but he needed her desperately. Hawk put a smile on his face and turned around. “I will. You have all the time you want. In the meantime I’m going to do the most delicious things to you so you won’t be able to live without me.”
He cupped her butt and pulled her up so her sex was against his. He stepped forward and leaned her against the glass of the shower wall and reached down to guide himself inside her waiting body.
Chapter 5
The vibration of his cell phone on the bedside table woke Hawk.
