by Becky McGraw
“God, I’m glad everyone is gone so I can finally have you to myself,” Jax growled, turning to skim his hand up Fallon’s silky stomach to her breast while he kissed a trail up to her earlobe, which earned him a throaty moan.
“I could stay here forever,” she replied in a breathy whisper.
As long as she was right here beside him, and only her, Jax could stay here forever too. “I thought our families would stay here forever,” he grumbled against her throat, sliding his thumb under the edge of her bikini top to stroke the underside of her breast. He saw her bikini top rise with her puckered nipple, felt the goosebumps he raised on her skin.
Jax had never had a woman respond to him like she did, and he fucking loved it. Loved her. And thanked God that she loved him.
Until this sassy, smart and sexy redhead stumbled back into his life he hadn’t realized just how colorless it had become. The ring he’d put on her finger today in that little chapel on the hill, and the one she’d slipped on his, said his life would never be dull again.
“Well, I’m glad they all came…especially my mother and sister, considering the mess my father left them.”
“I’m sorry, babycakes,” Jax said tensing.
She put her hand on his forearm, and tingles skated up his arm. “This is our honeymoon, and I don’t want to ruin it. Hopefully the estate sale for some of the contents will pay off the house, since the insur—” she started, but Jaxson put his finger over her lips.
Since the insurance wouldn’t pay out because he’d committed suicide. Her father hanging himself in the holding cell at the police station, after being arrested for bribery, had definitely been selfish. But then that’s the way the man had evidently lived his entire life, why should his death be different? He was so small-minded he’d let two women, Fallon’s mother and sister continue to spend frivolously, live a lifestyle he couldn’t afford, because he thought it made him look good to his political cronies. Jaxson wasn’t saying that to her though. Fallon would come to that conclusion herself eventually.
“Stop worrying—everything will work out.” Jax knew he was wasting his breath telling her not to worry, but he said it anyway.
His new wife worried about everything. He thought she would have a nervous breakdown before she settled on Texas for their wedding, but that was just the beginning. Texas was a big state, so there were so many choices of locations to have the beach wedding she wanted. That tiny chapel on the hill and the cozy honeymoon bungalow behind them is what finally convinced her to put a deposit down on this slice of paradise on Mustang Island. Her new boss, the chief judge at the district courthouse where she’d be working in Dallas was thrilled when she asked him to officiate. Problems solved, right?
No—Fallon moved on to what they would serve their guests for the reception dinner on the beach, where she could rent the huge tent and tables. It went on and on until about five hours ago when they finally, finally exchanged their vows.
It had all been worth it though—Jaxson could not imagine a woman being more beautiful than Fallon Sharpe as she walked up those stairs in that candlelight colored dress to become his wife. Just thinking of it now made his throat close.
“I really loved meeting your Deep Six friends and I think they were excited that you’re going back. Slade is nice, and I loved his dog.” Fallon gasped when Jax’s thumb raked her nipple under her top.
He was excited about the new assignment Slade had talked to him about too, but he wanted Fallon to stop talking and start kissing. He’d waited entirely too long to taste those luscious lips again. Licking a trail up her neck to her earlobe earned him a soft mewl. When he nipped the lobe of her ear, a shiver moved through her into him. The hammock swayed as she shifted her position to slide her leg over his thigh.
Now, that’s more like it, Jax thought, shifting too so he could fit his painful erection into the crevice at the top of her thighs. Making love to her out here in the moonlight would be erotic, tantalizing, but he’d seen their neighbors a few bungalows down unloading their kids and groceries a little while ago.
“I think you’re getting a little too hot out here, Mrs. Thomas,” he said, with a grin, and she shivered again as he smoothed his hand between them to slide it up the inside of her thigh to her heat. “You’re very fair, so you shouldn’t stay out on the beach too long.”
“Moonburn?” she asked, with a laugh.
“I have it on personal authority you can’t ever be too careful with those full moons, babycakes.” But Jax would never be wary of one again, he thought, glancing at the darkened bungalow down the beach, before sliding his fingers into her wetness and covering her mouth to swallow her moan.
He’d met and married the love of his life on a full moon.
The End
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Thank you so much for purchasing and reading SEALed Fate. If you enjoyed it, I would very much appreciate you leaving a review for me and checking out my other books.
SEALed Fate is a Kindle Worlds crossover novella from my Deep Six Security series into Cat Johnson’s Hot SEALs Kindle World. It includes characters from both her Hot SEALs series, and my new Deep Six Security series. I hope you’ll check out our other books:
DEEP SIX SECURITY SERIES by Becky McGraw
TWISTED HONOR (#2, Deep Six Security), Slade’s Story, will release on September 15, 2015. It is available for pre-order on Amazon here: http://amzn.to/1OXl3eU
Blurb: The last thing Slade wants is to be in charge of anyone but himself. The military taught him the price of being in command and it was too high. But Dave Logan is on his honeymoon and leaves Slade right where he doesn’t want to be. Things go from bad to worse very quickly when a prince’s son is kidnapped, and Deep Six is on the verge of losing its biggest security contract on his watch.
The head of security at the hotel gets fired over the incident and Slade thinks teaming up with small, but feisty Taylor Kincaid to find the boy is smart. As the situation unravels though, he sees that there is a lot more to it than meets the eye and Taylor could be in just as much trouble as the missing child. When the full picture becomes clear however, Slade realizes they are all in trouble and he has some tough choices to make that could cost him the only woman he’d even considered allowing himself to love in a very long time.
TILL DEATH (#1, Deep Six Security), Dave Logan and Susan Whitmore’s story, can be found on Amazon here: http://amzn.to/1M1mY2n
Blurb: Dave Logan, the owner of Deep Six Security, is stunned when Dallas FBI head, Susan Whitmore, darkens his doorstep accusing him of being the cause of her losing her job, and demanding he hire her. Even as his brain says no way, the Barracuda is a woman nobody can work with, his white-knight complex forces him to offer her a job as his very overqualified temporary secretary.
A wealthy couple who ordered a designer baby, which hasn’t been delivered contacts Dave for help. To get answers for them, Dave has to get inside an overly-fortified fertility clinic going undercover with Susan as his temporary wife. The situation inside is worse than they imagined, and soon their pretend ‘til death do us part’ could become very real unless the two alpha personalities learn to work together to stay alive.
Cat Johnson’s Hot SEALs Series:
If you’d like to find out more about Cat Johnson’s Hot SEALs characters -- snarky Rick Mann, southern gentleman Chris Cassidy, wealthy playboy Zane Alexander or focused and sexy Jon Rudnick who I incorporated into my crossover novella, you can find their stories in her Hot SEALs series here: http://amzn.to/1IWoZvW
If you love hot cowboys, I have plenty of those too:
TEXAS TROUBLE SERIES by Becky McGraw: My Kind of Trouble, The Trouble With Love, Double The Trouble, Looking For Trouble, Trouble In Dixie, Asking For Trouble, Chasing Trouble, Here Comes Trouble, Worth The Trouble, Royal Trouble, Trouble With The Law, and Borrowing Trouble
COWBOY WAY SERIES by Becky McGraw: Hope For Christmas (Launch Novella), Just Shoot Me (#1, Cowboy Way), Cowgirl Crazy (#2, Cowboy Way), Cupid’s Cowboy (
A Cowboy Way Novella), Too Hot to Trot (#3, Cowboy Way) and my new release coming on 8/4/15 in the 12-Alarm Cowboys boxed set, WHERE THERE’S SMOKE (A Cowboy Way Novella)
Also be sure to check out the other crossover novellas in Cat Johnson’s Hot SEAL Kindle World by:
AUTHOR: Geri Foster
TITLE: Out of Luck
Website: www.gerifoster.com
Newsletter: www.eepurl.com/Rr31H
AUTHOR: Sabrina York
TITLE: Guard Dog
Website: http://sabrinayork.com/
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bj8tKb
AUTHOR: J.M. Madden
TITLE: Reclaiming The SEAL
AUTHOR: Kennedy Layne
TITLE: A Mission For Love
Website: http://www.kennedylayne.com/
AUTHOR: Susan Stoker
TITLE: Protecting Julie
Website: www.StokerAces.com
Newsletter: www.StokerAces.com/contact.html
AUTHOR: Olivia Jaymes
TITLE: Discarded Heart
Website: www.OliviaJaymes.com
AUTHOR: Paige Tyler
TITLE: Her Special Alpha (X-OPS/Hot SEALs Crossover)
Website: www.paigetylertheauthor.com
Newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/odfvzyx
AUTHOR: Marissa Dobson
TITLE: SEALed Rescue
Website: www.MarissaDobson.com
AUTHOR: Siobhan Muir
TITLE: Rimshot's Hard Target
Website: http://www.siobhanmuir.com
AUTHOR: Donna Michaels
TITLE: Knight's SEAL
Website: www.DonnaMichaelsAuthor.com
AUTHOR: Elle James
TITLE: SEAL's Ultimate Challenge (Take No Prisoners/Hot SEALs Crossover)
Website: http://ellejames.com
Newsletter: http://ellejames.com/ElleContact.htm
AUTHOR: Delilah Devlin
TITLE: Through Her Eyes
Website: www.DelilahDevlin.com
AUTHOR: Desiree Holt
TITLE: Wet Heat (Coming Soon)
Website: www.desireeholt.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A Jill of many trades, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Becky McGraw has been an optician, a beautician, a legal secretary, a real estate broker, web designer, graphic artist, and romance writer. She knows just enough to make her dangerous, and her humor-laced contemporary western cowboy, and military and romantic suspense novels varied and interesting. Becky resides in Florida with her husband of thirty-plusyears and her dog Abby. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America Published Authors Network.
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