Baby Love by Catherine Anderson

Author:Catherine Anderson [Catherine Anderson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061738524
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

Rafe sank his boot into the hay, putting so much force behind the thrust that the bale slid across the feed-room floor. Pain shot to his knee. He swore and hobbled in a circle. “Son of a bitch!” Had he broken his toe? “God damn!”

This would teach him not pitch temper tantrums, he thought as he gimped toward the bale where it had come to rest against the unfinished wall. He sank gratefully onto the hay, braced one elbow on his knee, and reached to massage the throbbing digit through the leather. When the ache finally abated, he swore again and covered his face with his hands.

I just remembered something I need to go do. Every time he recalled saying that to Maggie, he got a sick urge to laugh. Big problem. It was a little difficult to go outside and kick himself in the ass. But, oh, God, how he wanted to. Stupid. He’d pulled some good ones in his time, but this took the prize. Where in the hell had his head been the last few days?

She was scared to death, and he’d bulldozed her into marrying him, paying her barely a second’s notice since bringing her here, except to force pills or water down her. A person could suffer far more ills than just the physical, and he’d completely ignored that fact, so bent on getting what he wanted that he hadn’t given a good God damn about her feelings.

Well, it was done. All legal and binding. He felt as though he’d been running a race for days, with a man-eating monster nipping at his heels, only to be caught just as he staggered into the safety zone. That look in her eyes. Jesus. He had prepared the food tray and taken it to the bedroom, intent on pulling off the smoothest seduction in history. Getting her a little looped on the wine, then gently kissing her until she forgot to keep a death grip on that damned nightgown that covered every sweet inch of her. Oh, yeah. Rafe Kendrick, the great lover, his chosen victim so terrified she couldn’t hang onto a glass. But, oh, hey. No problem. She had all the usual body parts. He could just tease and kiss his way past her reservations, until she quivered in the throes of orgasm. Home free.

He had been ashamed of himself a few times in his life, but never like this. Just be careful that you don’t become a bastard yourself, Ryan had warned him. If only he’d listened. Now, here he sat, hating himself. And Maggie still lay in that bed, undoubtedly trembling, waiting for him to come back and ravish her. If it hadn’t been so awful, he might have laughed. He’d never forced himself on a woman in his life, and he sure as hell didn’t plan to start now.

“Aren’t you the picture of wedded bliss. Trouble in paradise already?”

Rafe jerked his head up to see his brother standing in the feed-room doorway, a well-padded shoulder propped against the frame.

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