A Cold Creek Christmas Collection by RaeAnne Thayne

Author:RaeAnne Thayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Who knew the doorway to heaven could be found inside a dingy little storage shed behind the St. Nicholas Lodge?

The moment Hope returned his unwise kiss, heat and hunger crashed over like a thirty-foot swell. She was soft, curvy, warm—and tasted heady and sweet, like some sort of thick, forbidden cinnamon and almond pastry he wanted to gobble up in one bite.

On some deep level, he knew this was a mistake but he couldn’t seem to help himself. As they had worked together the past hour, he had been desperately aware of her, the lithe curves and the sun-warmed skin and her sweet little mouth that hadn’t stopped moving. She was lush and lovely and he was having a very hard time resisting her.

It didn’t help that there had been something vaguely sexual in pounding the post hole digger into the ground time after time—the sweat, the rhythm, the physical exertion. He finally had to force himself to stop watching her bend over to place each stake into the ground.

Yeah, he had been without a woman for a long time if he could get worked up over digging a bunch of holes in half-frozen Idaho soil.

Was it any wonder he hadn’t been able to help himself from taking advantage of the moment when she stumbled into his arms? What normal red-blooded—not to mention already half-aroused male—could possibly resist?

Only a kiss, he thought. Just enough to ease both his hunger and his curiosity. He might have been content with that—though probably not, he acknowledged—until she started kissing him back, sweet and sultry and eager.

All thought flew out of his head and he yanked her against him and just devoured her.

The kiss was hot, wild—his hands under her jacket, hers tangled in his hair. A flat surface. That was all he needed. The analytical part of his brain that helped him survive difficult missions was already scanning the storage shed for something that might work even while the rest of him was busy enjoying the kiss. A cot, a table, anything.

The work bench she had stumbled against might have to do, though its narrowness wouldn’t be comfortable for either of them…

He was just about to lower her to it, comfort be damned, when a sudden cold gust of wind rattled the door of the shed. She shivered in his arms and he felt as if that wind had sucked the air right out of him.

What was he doing? This was crazy.

He stepped away, his breathing ragged. She still had her eyes closed, her face lifted to his, and it took every ounce of strength he had not to reach for her again.

She was a dangerous woman.

For several days—since he met her, really—he had been trying to convince himself of all the reasons he couldn’t allow himself to give in to this attraction seething through him. One kiss and all that careful reasoning headed for the hills.

This wild, urgent need, the edgy hunger, was completely out of his experience. In truth, it scared the hell out of him.

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