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“I need your protection!”

“You don’t have anything to offer us in return,” Nate said.

“The hell I don’t,” she said.

Colby narrowed his gaze. He focused on Karen, the operative, not the woman deliberately getting in their way. That’s when it occurred to him—she was right. She had something to offer, one way to guarantee they all kept their lives.

Karen Whitaker knew where they could find Darby Winslow.

“I can take you to Shoemaker’s son.”

Bingo. She wasn’t going anywhere.

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The dark night fell on the heavenly skies like a thick thermal blanket. The lust was heavy, so thick, they could’ve sliced straight through it with carnal activities.

Nate chose his spot first, stretching out on the bed. Soon, Karen lay beside him. Perhaps she thought he was the one most capable of protecting her or pegged him as a light sleeper. Even with desire spinning as fast as the cabana ceiling fans, they each slipped into their dreams, somehow avoiding any personal contact.

When the morning sun trespassed into Nate’s sleep, he woke up with a rise in his shorts. Karen, at some point during the night, curled into the nook of his arm. Her palm was flat against his belly, and he almost moved her hand down his shorts.

Deciding he needed to avoid—not entice—her, Nate left the bed, but he watched her from across the room, intrigued by her feminine qualities, even more so because he took the time to notice. Unsure of why he observed the female agent at all, he quickly showered and dressed. Packing several weapons, knives and grenades, he left for a walk on the beach.

Nate didn’t like his current personal position. He didn’t enjoy swapping information. He took what he wanted, occasionally paid for tips he needed, but he didn’t owe anyone anything.

Damn that bitch! Whitaker had him over a barrel. He knew they might need Darby Winslow in order to bring Shoemaker down.

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would finish the job. Shoemaker would keep sending operatives until he picked them off one by one.

“He wants me dead, too, doesn’t he?”

Nate stopped in his tracks and turned around. “I thought Colby filled you in.”

Donovan walked toward Nate with a sexy swagger. “I must’ve had my mind somewhere else.”

After they’d returned from Mangaia, Donovan responded to Nate, and Nate found it impossible to ignore the rise in his own damn pants once they touched one another. After he straddled him in the heat of their rough housing, Colby tried to talk to Donovan, but if the bulge in his slacks gave away any further indication, Donovan pondered better things at the time.

If Nate wanted Donovan dead, he would’ve at least died with an erection. Maybe then he could’ve entered the next life raring to go.

“I know where your head was,” Nate growled, returning to his walk on the beach.

Donovan quickly caught up and strolled beside him. For several minutes, the men sauntered across the small stretch of beach in silence.

“I requested a move,” Nate said, stopping in front of a larger cabana and eyeing the swing on the porch. He took the steps two at a time and sat down.

Donovan met his gaze with a challenge. “I thought you didn’t like to go against orders or change plans.”

Nate placed his palms on the wooden bench seat. “I don’t take orders from those who place unnecessary hits on my life. We’re sitting targets in that bungalow.”

“We’re open season if we remain in this resort.”

“I’m not running,” Nate said.

“If not, why not stay down the beach in our hut?”

“I don’t like cramped spaces.”

“You didn’t seem to mind before,” Donovan said.

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“I’m not sleeping in a bed with a woman.”

“Again, it apparently didn’t bother you yesterday.”

Nate shifted, smiled and grated out all at once. “I’m not a woman’s man, Collier.”

“You think I don’t know that?”

Nate narrowed his gaze and studied Donovan’s groin. God, yeah, the man sported a thick dick. He didn’t require a reminder. He remembered the swell of his erection under the weight of his body when he immobilized him the day before.

Donovan tilted his head toward the front door. “Open it.”

Nate leaned back in the swing and crossed his arms. “And if I do, what are you going to do? Kill me or fuck me?”

“Maybe both,” Donovan said, working his game.

Pushing himself up, Nate walked toward the entrance. He turned the knob. “It’s unlocked. Go ahead. Go inside.”

“You first,” Donovan said, extending his arm.

“Ah, no, sweetheart,” Nate said. “Trust is everything. You have to trust me if you’re in my bed.”

“Why? So I can look at you like Colby does?”

Nate arched his brow. “How’s that?”

“Anyone can see he has strong feelings for you. Anyone except, well, maybe you.”

“Colby and I have a past,” he stated flatly. “Colby has nothing to do with me and you.”

“And I’m supposed to trust a man who received a shoot to kill order specifically for me?”

“We both picked up the same assignment,” Nate reminded him.

“You could kill me as easily as I could dispose of you. We’re evenly matched.”

“Hmm...” Donovan said. “I imagine you had a tough time accepting the truth?”

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“The truth is, we’re equals in physical strength,” Nate corrected him. “But I have a lot of experience, and I doubt you’ll find many ISOs with my level of expertise.”

“In the field or in the bedroom?”

“Both,” Nate said, walking inside first.

Donovan followed. From there, Nate quickly took the lead.

* * * *

Donovan fell for Nate about as quickly as he imagined Colby might have. No two ways about it. The man eating him alive knew how to work his fellows.

Nate’s mouth opened but didn’t close over his. He nipped at his lips and then sucked his bottom lip between sharp teeth. Eagerly, he pulled him into a covetous kiss, and Donovan’s hand went to Nate’s cock.

Stroking through the soft material, Donovan moved his palm up and down the growing length Nate kept tucked away in his pants. He should’ve been licensed to use a cock like the one he possessed between those muscular legs.

“That’s it,” Nate said. “Get me going. Stroke me right.”

Hell yeah, Donovan understood what Nate wanted. He would give him every drip and drop of satisfaction he could muster.

Fiddling with Nate’s zipper, Donovan freed his length. God help him, he wanted to kneel down and let Nate’s thick dick part his lips, but Nate was full of surprises. An exceptional kisser, Nate delivered the kind of attention Donovan longed for, and a smart soldier never left his assigned post in the midst of an outright assault, especially one triggering so much heat and pleasure.

Nate cupped his neck and made him want more, everything, and yet nothing else but this. Nate’s tongue scraped over his own, and Donovan moaned, allowing Nate’s erection to tap against his denim covered cock.

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Holding his head between his palms, Nate said, “Unzip. Let me feel your cock against my leg.” Then, he kissed him deeper.

A few seconds later, Donovan stepped out of the confinement of his clothing. He moved closer, allowing the shape of his penis to press against the shaft of Nate’s dick.

Donovan reached between their bodies with his left hand. He wrapped his fingers around Nate’s size, stroking him quickly and enjoying the way his flesh rolled into his working, aggressive hand.

His thumb smoothed over Nate’s swollen mushroom head, and Nate practically growled into their kiss.

“Are you gonna be the death of me, big man?” Nate asked, grinning.

“I may just give you new life,” Donovan promised. Then he dropped to his knees.

* * * *

Nate grabbed the base of his dick and tried to move away from Donovan’s sucking. Good Lord, the man used a suction like no other.

Licking the top of Nate's dick, Donovan looked up and winked.

“Don’t go anywhere. I want you to come.”

Nate didn’t care about anything else after Donovan urged him forward. He took one step toward Donovan, moving back into the blowjob of a lifetime.

Donovan reached under Nate’s scrotum and tapped his balls. Like a rocket, only faster, his ejaculation pressed through his veins and spilled onto a willing tongue. Hammering closer to his goals, Nate tapped Donovan’s tonsils, and Donovan swallowed and swallowed.

Gripping his ears, Nate pounded Donovan’s throat. The head of his penis swelled again and again, over and over, as his cum sprayed hot.

“God, yeah,” Nate said, changing his stance and wiggling his ass to free every sensation found through oral pleasure.

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When he finished, he dropped to his knees, and Donovan embraced him. Donovan didn’t act like he expected something in return but as if Nate were a frightened soldier afraid to see what the future held, he closed his eyes and remembered. He reflected on a different time when another strong man cradled him.

Colby Carrington never let go.

Donovan might.

No, Nate thought. Donovan would.

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Donovan was a goner from the initial how-do-you-do. From the moment he joined Nate in the taxi, he understood his destiny. Nate Francisco had him at the airport. He held on from their initial introductions, no matter how lame they were, and Nate now owned him—heaven help him—completely.

Nate released him and started to stand.

“Don’t,” Donovan said, almost pleading.

Nate’s lips curved in a smile. “You want some more of me?”

Donovan stroked himself. Yes, he wanted more. He longed for more than he ever expected to want from another ISO. He needed more than he ever desired in the past.

“Let me fuck you,” Donovan said, astonished he made the request and feeling the heat lick at his skin while he waited for Nate’s reaction.

“A cock won’t fit in this tight ass, lover.”

Like hell. Donovan highly doubted that one. Nate was all but fucked now.

Pressing his lips to the inside of Nate’s thigh, he sucked the skin.

Trailing up and down his leg, his tongue swiped at Nate’s clammy flesh. Higher and lower, his mouth remained committed to contact.

He teased until he couldn’t torment anymore. Then he pulled Nate forward, bracing himself for all a man could stand.

Nate pushed him to the floor. With his back against the ground, Donovan closed his eyes and wondered what bottoming for a man like the one leaning over him now would feel like. He’d always been the one who fucked. A man’s dick never stroked the inside of his ass, and Ebook piracy is stealing. It is a federal offense.

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only one other man knew what it felt like to have his mouth around him—Darby Winslow.

The tip of Nate’s cock pressed against his ass cheek, and Donovan cursed, moaned, and rolled over, reaching for his pants.

“I want to fuck
you
,” Donovan told him again.

Expecting a man like Nate to either put up a fight or deny him altogether, he was surprised when Nate pulled two condoms from his wallet. The foil wrappers from both went to his lips, and he tore open the packets.

Catching the tossed rubber, Donovan did not sheath himself but watched while Nate rolled the added protection over his cock.

Beautiful and sexy, Nate proudly stood on display. A wicked smile, a devilish expression Donovan realized he’d never tire of seeing, washed over Nate’s chiseled cheeks.

Suited up and ready to play, Nate towered over him and pushed Donovan’s legs apart. Keeping one hand against the floor next to his head, he stroked Donovan’s penis. Up and down, leisurely, he maneuvered his closed fist around his cock until Donovan wanted to come, needed to get off worse than he craved his next breath of air.

“Let me,” Donovan said gruffly. “Let me take you.”

* * * *

Nate reared back and looked at him. Perhaps he saw him for the very first time, as a lover of genuine interest. Donovan’s good looks made him stand out in a crowd, but of equal interest, something hard to ignore, was his intelligence. The man intrigued him, and the buried mysteries wouldn’t easily unfold.

Colby would never forgive him. In all their time together, Colby never fucked him. Nate had a thing about taking dick up the ass. Sure, he was always curious. Since he had some reservations about Donovan and whether or not he intended to play them, he might give him what he wanted—for the sake of the job, of course.

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Donovan wanted a piece of his ass and he wanted it bad. Maybe if Nate let him have what he desired, gave him his way, then he’d seal the deal and make a committed partner out of him.