Darling Annie by Raine Cantrell

Author:Raine Cantrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION/Romance/Western
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2013-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Kell?” Annie whispered his name against his cheek, her rioting senses making every word a struggle. “You said nothing would hurt. But I ache, Kell. I—”

At war with himself, Kell rested his forehead on hers. “Annie, I never meant things to go so far. I didn’t want … Christ!” he groaned, his hands stilling the provocative arch of her body to his. Her eyes revealed confusion and he released an explosive breath, counting, and needing more to still the fever raging through him. “It’s all right. I’ll make it all right,” he promised recklessly. “Show me where you ache, Annie,” he murmured, easing his body to her side, unable to let her go. He curved his hand over her slender waist, scattering kisses on her flushed face, while he closed his eyes for a few moments denying himself the sight of her breasts stirring with her ragged breaths.

Unknown need dictated her move to draw his hand up to rest below her breast, where blood seemed to rush and swell that most delicate feminine flesh. Twenty-eight years of moral lessons struck a warning for her brazen manner, but Annie, nestled in desire’s cloud, sought her pleasure from his lips again.

He came to her with a groan, seduced as he had never been by the cost to Annie to show him where she wanted him to touch. Kell consigned warnings to hell and wished her corset there as well. Using skilled touches to heighten her arousal, he knew she was still far too shy to let him undress her. She made those little sounds that drove him to a new edge, and he coaxed and praised her by turn.

It was his murmuring voice that pierced the sensual veil that softened Annie’s world and narrowed it to senses filled with Kell. But rather than the lover’s incantations that dragged her deeper, to the edge of passion’s realm, she kept hearing his denial. “I never meant things to go so far.”

And with each repetition, sharpened clarity made the meaning very clear.

Annie shoved aside his hand and tore her mouth from his. “You never meant … you followed me here? This was deliberate!”

Kell was slow to react, ensnared by his own heightened senses and a body that was needy. When she landed a punch on his shoulder, he opened his eyes to see her eyes shift from passion’s glaze to a slow, blazing fury. Regret was brief. Hunger still prowled, demanding surcease.

“Christ, Annie! Stop hitting me. I stopped, didn’t I?” He caught hold of her hand and moved quickly to reach for the other. “Yes, I came here looking for you. No, this wasn’t deliberate. I was leaving without you ever knowing I’d been here when that damn dog came racing out of the woods.”

“You came here to seduce me!”

“I’m not a green boy who needs to flip a female’s skirts in a field. And if I wanted to seduce you, Annie Muldoon, I’d have had you on the kitchen table, and then again upstairs in your bed.

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