A Willing Wife by Jackie Merritt

Author:Jackie Merritt [Merritt, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373650330
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1999-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Ten

Once outside and walking, Maggie was glad she’d agreed to accompany Dallas, whatever his motive. The big storm had ushered in a weather change; there’d been a definite chill in the air ever since. But after the warmth of the kitchen, the cooler temperature felt good to Maggie, and she breathed deeply of the revitalizing fresh air. Dallas headed down the Perez driveway, and since Maggie didn’t care in which direction they walked, she kept stride.

It surprised her that Dallas didn’t immediately strike up a conversation, and, in fact, seemed content to merely walk along beside her. But Dallas’s silence gave her the time to think of how best to introduce the topic of her pending departure. Just say it and get it over with. Of course that was what she should do, she thought. So why did she suddenly feel as though it was a subject that should be tactfully broached? Did she care how he might take her news?

And then, for some reason, she remembered that he hadn’t only saved her life; it was quite likely that he’d saved Travis’s that first day. At the very least he had prevented possible injury for each of them. Of course both incidents had been purely accidental. That was to say, Dallas’s Johnny-on-the-spot rescues certainly hadn’t been planned. It had been pure chance that he’d happened along when Travis climbed to the top rail of the corral fence, and then again when she’d been on foot during the worst electrical storm of the year.

Oh, it was all so confusing, Maggie thought unhappily. The gratitude she felt for Dallas’s having saved her son from what could have been a disastrous fall, and then for his generous disregard for his own safety to get her under cover during the storm was all mixed up with regret that she’d made love with Dallas. Why wouldn’t he believe that her response that day had been the start of an affair between them? Yes, she’d tried to rectify the damage afterward by doing some fast talking, but babbling about needing time to sort through her feelings had really been nothing more than a ruse to keep him from catching on to just how mortified she’d been by her own behavior.

And now she was involved—with a Fortune! It really didn’t seem possible. Sneaking a quick glance at Dallas, Maggie’s spirits dropped another notch. It hurt terribly to realize that if he wasn’t a Fortune and one of the wealthiest men in Texas she just might be thrilled with their involvement. If he were an ordinary man she might even be thinking of a future together.

But there was nothing ordinary about Dallas. Not only was he rich beyond belief, but he was a member of a family that wielded enormous power in the state, and he was also the most handsome man she’d ever known. He had everything going for him—why on earth had he even noticed her? To take you to bed, you ninny! And you let it happen.

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