Free SEALed with a Kiss (Alpha SEALs Book 2) by Makenna Jameison Page B

him.
    “Let me take you out sometime.  On a real date.  Not this dinner with friends and SEAL buddies stuff.  I want you alone.”
    She bit her lip, and the sight of her teeth sinking into that soft flesh nearly made him come undone.  He longed to sink his teeth into her lower lip.  To nibble on it and kiss her softly, sweetly.  If he thought for a second that she’d allow it, he’d haul her into his arms right now.  Hold her close.  Kiss that soft skin on her neck and shoulders.  Gently bite her lip and soothe the sting with his tongue.
    She looked away for a moment, watching the other couples near the grill.  They laughed at something Christopher said, and Evan felt like he and Alison were in their own little world for the moment.
    Her eyes wandered back to his, and they were bright.  Interested.
    “Maybe.”
    He grinned.
     
    ***
     
    “So what’s going on with you and Evan?” Rebecca whispered later in the evening as Patrick and Evan cleaned up.  She had her wine glass in one hand, Alison’s elbow in the other, and steered her to the corner of the yard.  Christopher had already left with his date, and Rebecca had tugged Alison off under the auspices of showing her some flowers.
    At ten o’clock at night.
    “I don’t know,” Alison said, taking a sip of wine.  This was her third glass over the course of several hours, but it was still giving her a small buzz.  “He’s cute.  Probably all wrong for me.”  Her stomach had been doing crazy little flips all evening—starting with walking in the door of Rebecca’s together like they were a couple or something, continuing when he’d massaged her neck and shoulders, and ending with him helping to clean up, shooting her searing gazes all the while.
    “He’s really nice…not to mention totally gorgeous.”
    “Yeah, and totally too young.”
    “Patrick was a little confused when I said we should invite some of the guys over tonight—specifically Evan.”
    “Men can be so dense sometimes.”
    “Evan seems really into you—that massage he gave you earlier?  I’m pretty sure I almost melted watching you two.”
    “Uh huh.  When he had his hands all over my skin?  It definitely made me want things I’m not supposed to with a guy like him.”
    “They’re good guys,” Rebecca insisted.
    “I know—it just caught me by surprise.”
    “It happens,” Rebecca said with a shrug.  “I totally wasn’t expecting for Patrick to walk into my life.  Honestly, I didn’t even think I’d ever really date again.  But when these guys want something they go after it.”
    “It being you?” Alison asked with a giggle.
    “Is that so bad?” Rebecca teased.  “Patrick was pretty intense, but after our first night together?  I couldn’t imagine ever being with another man again.”
    Alison grinned.  “Some of us don’t move at the speed of light like you two.  I need to figure things out first.”
    “Well don’t take too long, sweetie.  Some things are worth risking our hearts for.”

Chapter 8
     
    For the second week in a row, Evan drove Alison home.  He liked her beside him in the darkened interior of his SUV.  It felt right—like she belonged there or something.  How crazy was that?  For a man used to being alone, with a history of spending only a night or two with a woman, he sure the hell loved having Alison around.
    She yawned, and he glanced over at her profile in the moonlight.  She’d closed her eyes for a moment and didn’t notice the way his swept over her, taking in her delicate features, gorgeous hair, and the swell of her breasts.  His eyes trailed down, her legs covered by that long dress she had on.  Fucking gorgeous.
    He was more than a little curious about what she and Rebecca had been chatting about after dinner.  They both kept shooting glances his way, and he’d started to feel like a kid at the seventh grade dance or something—boys on one side of the yard, girls on the other.
    Except Alison was a