Badlands Beware by Nicole Helm

Author:Nicole Helm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-04-10T02:04:24+00:00

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TUCKER WOKE UP in his own personal nightmare. He had to come up with a plan to save Duke, to keep Rachel safe. To outwit North Star, the Sons and some other group of people out for blood.

All knowing he’d kissed Rachel. And now she was curled up next to him. Because he’d only had time to grab the pack out of his truck—which was outfitted for one person. A tiny tent and one sleeping bag.

It was edging far enough into fall that nights were cold, so he’d had to let her cozy up next to him and fall asleep. All while pretending that kiss had never happened.

It was the only way to survive this. Put a brick wall around his own personal slip-up. Seal it off and forget it.

But he’d never in a million years be able to forget the feel of his lips on hers. Simple kisses weren’t supposed to...do that. Make you forget who you were and what was important: safety. Hers most of all.

But he’d forgotten everything except her for those humming seconds—not just the kiss, but her talking to him like she understood him. When it felt like no one did.

He knew his brothers saw him as an equal. They couldn’t understand that he didn’t feel like one.

Right now in this warm tent, Rachel’s hair curling against his cheek, the soft rise and fall of her chest matching time with his... Well, he supposed Rachel seeing through his issues was a better line of thought than how good she felt here against him.

She shifted, yawned, her eyes slowly blinking open. Even though she wouldn’t be able to see in the dim light of the tent, he could see. The sleep slowly lift. Realization and understanding dawning.

And the way she definitely did not try to slide away or disengage from him, but seemed perfectly content to cuddle closer.

There was a very large part of him that wanted to test it out, too. To see what it would be like to relax into her. To touch her face again. To recognize the soft curves of her body as they pressed to his. To kiss her and—

No. Not possible.

Carefully, he disengaged from her arms and scooted away from her as best he could in the tiny tent.

“Maybe we should go back. I’ve got nothing. My brothers might have some ideas. They’re better at this than I am.”

She was quiet for a while as she pushed herself up into a sitting position. “Are they better at it, or were they just put in a position you weren’t?”

“You don’t need to keep defending me. I don’t have low self-esteem. I—”

“You’ve got issues, Tuck. Good news is, we all do. Better news, you have someone around who’s not going to let you believe the crap you tell yourself. So...” She yawned. “I don’t suppose you have any coffee?”

He didn’t know how to stay in this tiny tent with her looking sleepy and rumpled and gorgeous, talking about how everyone had issues.

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