Bear My Baby (Shifter Squad Six 1) Read Online Free

woman added in. But with most jobs, information was purely on a need-to-know basis and he didn’t need to know. As far as he was concerned, that meant that she didn’t either.
    He shrugged nonchalantly, throwing her a smirk that sent her bottom lip curling in annoyance. What he wouldn’t have done to turn that frown upside down.
    “I don’t know what they want with you, honey. I was there because some fancy men in very expensive suits threw money at me to be there. If it makes you feel any better, we weren’t there specifically for you. But I’m not at all disappointed that it did turn out to be you,” he said, pressing a low, growling purr into his voice.
    Shit. That was the kind of behavior he could expect from himself when he was about five shots of tequila and a glass of whiskey into a night, not when he was on a job. But the way her hair bounced off her forehead when she threw her head back in exasperation and the way she kept wringing her hands together were really doing a number on him. Anything she did seemed to him like a big, screaming sign, really. A sign that he should not be sitting alone on that side of the table.
    She paced back and forth, giving him a good view of her thick thighs and her ample ass, made to be grabbed by his calloused hands. He set down the rifle he’d been babying on the windowsill and settled in to watch the show. She huffed under her breath, obviously more irate now than worried. It was to be expected. People coped in very personal ways.
    Suddenly she stopped, and gave him a hard look filled with annoyance. He shrugged nonchalantly and spread his hands, giving his best schoolboy grin.
    “Just making sure you’re safe, honey.”
    “By staring at my ass?”
    “That needs protecting too, you know. And there’s nothing better than a Navy SEAL at your back,” he said, winking.
    He could see that she was trying to be irritated at him, but he didn’t miss the little smile that spread over her lips for the tiniest moment. Ah yes. There, he had her. That spirit he liked so much already.
    “You should give yourself some credit for today, you know. Not many women can throw themselves off a building and not lose their cool in the process.”
    “Did it look like I threw myself off? Somehow, I can only remember some jerk grabbing me and flinging us both off the ledge,” she said, sitting down across from him and resting her chin on her hand.
    “Only trying to make sure you stay alive, honey,” he quipped, stressing the “honey.”
    The way she twitched a little bit every time he said it made his blood boil with hunger.
    “You think you’re so smooth,” she sighed, rolling her eyes. “Has anyone told you that you might be overly cocky?”
    “Lots of stuff has been said about my cock, honey. Usually it’s in incoherent formats though, through moans and screams. I can’t really keep track,” he said with a yawn, stretching his arms back.
    His tendons were getting stiff and the heat in his muscles was supposed to be dying down as well, but his heart rate was still way up. Connor knew why that was. That fine piece of ass sitting close to him, smelling like sex on legs, had him all kinds of riled up.
    Cassie was about to bite back something when his earset pinged.
    “Listening,” he said, keeping his gaze fixed squarely on Cassie.
    “Perimeter seems clear. Dutch has set up a defensive position. Grant and Tex have first shift. Pickup at 0600. Comms out,” Thatch said matter-of-factly, short and to the point as usual.
    Connor fished the unit out of his ear and set it down on the windowsill next to his rifle. Nothing to do now but amuse himself with this juicy morsel in front of him.
    Usually, if Connor wanted something, he would leave no questions about it. But it was never a mark. It was never someone he was tasked to protect. And most certainly no one ever made him act quite that way. He was willing to give her room, let her scope him out a little. But he knew that if he