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She wanted commitment. Sabella wasn’t a easy lay, he had known that when he first met her. Yet, here he was, knowing when this mission finished it would be time to leave.
“There are some things I have to leave to take care of soon,” he finally warned her. He couldn’t promise her anything yet, not yet. He couldn’t promise her forever until he knew if signing his life away to the Elite Ops meant signing everything away.
Sabella closed her eyes and fought the pain. Which was worse? she wondered. Losing him to a supposed death, or having him walk away voluntarily?
The latter would hurt worse, but at least she wouldn’t wonder. She would know he was safe. Know he was alive. But that didn’t keep the anger from burning inside her like an inferno that only seemed to grow.
“I see.” She buttoned her blouse in hard, jerky movements before reaching for her panties and skirt.
“What do you see?” He seemed genuinely curious.
“You’re not future material, just a quick lay wherever you happen to be.” She shrugged as though it didn’t matter.
Damn him. Damn him to hell. Fuck it. Screw it. She’d had enough of this. Enough, as of now.
She jerked her skirt on.
“Get dressed. I need to get home. I have things to do tomorrow and they don’t include lying around all day. I’ve wasted enough of my life as it is.”
“What the hell does that mean?” His voice turned cold. Stony.
She turned back to him, watching as he levered up, glaring back at her with narrowed eyes.
“Exactly what I said. I’ve spent too many years grieving for a man who didn’t love me enough to keep his ass alive and come back home to me.” She let her gaze flick disdainfully over him. “I’ll be damned if I’ll waste so much as another day on a man who doesn’t even care enough to let me know if he intends to stick around for a while.”
“Promises are for fools, Sabella,” he rasped. “You should have learned that with your husband.”
“You’re damned right. I should have.” She threw his pants at him. “There are a lot of lessons I should have learned with my husband. Starting with the fact that he was a son a bitch who obviously didn’t know how to love anything but himself and his fucking job. Lesson learned. I won’t make that same mistake with you.”
His shirt hit him in the face. “Get dressed. I’m fucked out and ready to sleep now. In my bed. Alone.”
“Like hell.”
“Hell describes it,” she muttered. “But it beats sleeping with a no-commitment asshole who doesn’t mind a bit to fuck and run. Now, take me home.”
Her eyes were dry. There were no tears. She watched as he dressed, and the bastard, he didn’t even struggle or contort to do it. He watched her with narrowed, fierce eyes.
“I’ll be sleeping in that bed with you,” he promised her. “I might be a no-commitment asshole, and a luckless son of a bitch, but don’t forget, while I’m here, you’re mine.”
She stared back at him. “Keep dreaming, Noah Blake. Because my bed is the last damned place you belong.”
CHAPTER TWENTY
Noah twirled the wrench between his fingers and chewed thoughtfully at his gum as he watched Sabella two days later.
She hadn’t been joking. She’d kicked him right out of her bed, and apparently, out of her life. For now at least.
He watched her from beneath lowered lashes as he pretended to stare into the guts of the SUV he was supposed to be working on.
“You’re hard at work, huh?” Nik leaned against the fender and peered into the motor. “Need some help?”
“Sure,” Noah murmured absently. “Any word?”
Word on the DNA samples they had slipped to the bunker and Jordan had shipped out for testing. Delbert had picked up his pickup that morning. The sneering smug little turd. He’d looked at Noah as though he had crawled out of the dumb pit when Noah had informed him there was no way to juice up his motor.
Let him juice his own motor. By time the feds were finished taking that son of a bitch apart searching for the evidence Noah had left, good ole Delbert was going to be too busy to be worrying about juice.
“No word,” Nik answered. “I could use some help this evening though, if you are not busy.” They both glanced at Sabella in the office then.
