Escape with a Scoundrel (Escape with a Scoundrel Series Book 1) by Shelly Thacker

Author:Shelly Thacker [Thacker, Shelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summit Avenue Books
Published: 2013-12-10T18:00:00+00:00

Sam couldn’t summon a reply, couldn’t even catch her breath. Gazing into his eyes, warmed by his touch, she felt as if she had been swept up into the night sky, spinning among white-hot stars.

Everything seemed to be whirling around her, changing so quickly, leaving her scrambling for something solid to hold on to. But all she could find within herself were new, undefined feelings, too tentative, too fragile for her to depend upon.

Feelings for this man. For a stranger who now knew all of her secrets.

But he wasn’t a stranger anymore.

Nick.

She had shared with him memories and pain that she had never shared with anyone. And as he held her so carefully, his broad hands cupping her face so lightly, she chastised herself for being ten kinds of a fool. How could she have told him everything? Why had she trusted him?

She had every reason to feel wary of this man. Any sensible woman would. He was an outlaw. A scoundrel who knew too little of kindness, too much of fighting and recklessness and the hard edges of life. Sitting so close beside him, feeling the heat of his body against hers, she felt an uncomfortable shift in the rhythm of her heartbeat.

The hard, muscular planes of his body, his numerous scars, the pitchfork brand all bespoke a life of harshness and danger. He seemed to be made entirely of steel, corded lengths of steel wrapped around iron. As hard and unyielding as the chain that bound the two of them together. A man crafted from and for violence.

Yet he was capable of gentleness, too. And compassion.

She had experienced that herself.

And he awaited her answer. Would she grant him an intimacy she had never granted any man?

Drawing an unsteady breath, she closed her eyes, unable to bear the heat in his gaze and her own uncertainty. She had no need to fear that he might lose control over his unpredictable male hunger. He was clearly in complete control of himself, as he had been all along.

It was her own reactions that alarmed her.

“Nick,” she whispered, “I…I haven’t been entirely honest.”

“I find that hard to believe.” He wasn’t mocking her; his voice was serious.

“It’s true.” She opened her eyes, swallowing hard. “When I said I was still a little afraid of you, it’s…it’s not you that I’m afraid of.” Confessing brought a cascade of heat to her cheeks. “It’s me.”

He smiled as if he understood. “What is there to be afraid of, Samantha?”

“Well, when you…kissed me, I felt so…” She struggled to find words for what she had experienced, felt embarrassed by the memory. Her senses had simply scattered to the winds at the first brush of his lips over hers.

“As if you were hot and cold at the same time?” he murmured, kissing her again, the lightest touch of his mouth this time. “And hungry and thirsty all at once?” He kissed her a third time.

“Yes.” The word came out as a sigh, her lashes drifting downward as she experienced the same breathless, almost dizzy sensation she had felt before.

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