Against the Odds by Kat Martin

Author:Kat Martin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Contemporary, Western
ISBN: 9780778314226
Publisher: Harlequin MIRA
Published: 2012-12-18T08:00:00+00:00

Twenty

The sound of cicadas intruded on the darkness, a thick, steady hum Rebecca found soothing as they walked to her front porch. Joe’s big hand wrapped around her fingers and she found herself smiling.

The evening hadn’t gone anything at all as she had imagined. Instead of taking her to dinner at one of the better restaurants as she had expected, he had taken her to a place called Johnny Ringo’s, a country-Western dance hall. They’d eaten barbecued ribs and drank beer, and Joe had shown her how to Texas two-step.

They had tried a little line dancing, which she discovered after a few tries was harder than it looked. Joe promised to take her back sometime when they were giving lessons. Rebecca couldn’t remember a night she’d had more fun.

As they neared the porch, she reached up and tugged on the brim of the white straw cowboy hat he was wearing with jeans and a pair of scuffed boots.

“You look really good in a hat,” she said. “You ought to wear one more often.”

“Truth is, I’m more of a baseball cap kind of guy. I haven’t worn a cowboy hat since I worked out on our ranch.”

“Your family has a ranch?”

“Used to. Out on the east side. Our property butted up against the Rawlinses’ place. Seth Rawlins was Trace’s dad.”

Trace was the man her brother worked for at Atlas Security. She knew him and his pretty wife, Maggie, liked them both. “So you left the farm and joined the navy.”

“I enlisted after I got out of college. That’s where I met Alex. Your brother was one of those cocky SOBs who flew jets off the carrier I was assigned to. I was an officer in the ship’s maintenance crew. We butted heads a few times, wound up being friends.”

She smiled. “So indirectly, you’re responsible for Ginny and me being in Texas.”

“If you came because your brother is here, then yeah, I guess I am.” They had almost reached the porch when he tugged her off the walkway into the shadows. He ended their discussion by leaning down to kiss her. She’d been expecting a good-night kiss. When his lips brushed hers, then settled in, softened over hers, melded, and he pulled her against him, it turned into something far more.

For an instant, Rebecca’s breath stalled and her heart seemed to stop. Joe coaxed her lips apart and his tongue slid in to taste her. He took the kiss deeper and she lost all track of time. Her only thought was of Joe and the erotic feel of his mouth moving hotly over hers.

It was the fiercest, deepest, most wickedly sexy kiss she’d ever known. Rebecca barely realized that his big hands were cupping her breasts, his thumbs running gently over her nipples, turning them into tight little buds beneath her sleeveless, scoop-neck blouse. But the coil of heat in her stomach expanded and the desire burning through her began to spiral out of control.

She knew she should stop him, but after

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