Dagger's Edge (SEALs On Fire) (7 page)
“Ugh, you’re killing my eyes.” She burrowed underneath the sheets. “What’s wrong?” Her muffled, drowsy voice sounded from beneath covers.
“My pager is going off.” He scanned the room. “Where did I put my shorts?”
Mia catapulted to a sitting position. Her wild red hair tumbled over her shoulders. “Pager? That can’t be good.”
“It’s not.” Dagger spied his denim shorts on the arm of a side chair on the other side of the room. He slipped out of bed, quickly crossed over to his crumpled clothing, and pulled out the insistent pager. He was being recalled. “Son of a bitch. We just got here.”
“What? You’re leaving? Already?” With each word Mia’s voice steadily grew louder and higher pitched. “No. You can’t. I wanted to amaze you with my pancake-making abilities this morning. Then get snorkels and head out to the coral reef.”
“Unfortunately, Uncle Sam has other plans for me today.” He threw on his shirt and bounced on one leg, then the other, trying to pull on his shorts. His shoes were somewhere near the front door downstairs. “But I promise to give you a rain check when I come back.”
“You made a decision? You’re going to come back and take over Butch’s marina?”
So busy preparing to leave, Dagger hadn’t noticed Mia coming up behind him. He turned, taking in her gloriously naked body, her beautiful face, and her big green eyes. This was the girl he’d secretly loved since he was a boy. The woman who was his equal in so many different ways. He finally had a chance to make her his own. Be with her forever. Fill the gaping hole in his heart.
“Yes.” He smiled and nodded. “I’m coming back. And when I do, you and I are going to have a long talk. Then we’re going to have a chat with that brother of yours. If he’s going to try to whoop my ass, I may as well make it easy for him.”
There would be a marriage proposal in the future, of that Dagger was sure. But now was not the time. If he was going to be a better man than his father, he would do everything right. By the book. Find the perfect ring, ask Mia’s dad for his blessing, and then get on one knee under a starlit sky and ask for her hand. No shortcuts and no mistakes. Nothing but his best efforts in his one and only forever relationship and marriage to the woman he loved.
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Equally at home camping in the mountains of Montana or shopping on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, my journey through life has taken me all over the United States, as well as many places throughout the world. Using my travel experience as a guide and peppering in interesting characters I’ve met along the way, I love nothing better than artfully weaving erotic tales of romance and leaving readers yearning for adventures of their own.
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