Her Forbidden Gunslinger by Harper St. George

Author:Harper St. George [George, Harper St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460338384
Google: -31lAwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 22721676
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Some time later, Gray lay with Sophie curled against his chest. One hand gripped her hip in a mildly possessive touch while the fingers of his other hand were threaded with hers. The pose seemed so natural, it scared the hell out of him.

She’d just finished telling him about her childhood. The ranch, her parents, her brother, and how happy they’d been. Perfectly idyllic until Jean had come and convinced her father to mine their land. She didn’t mention that part but he knew what Sinclair had told him. When the mine began showing profit, her parents had been killed in an accident that LaSalle had almost certainly arranged. He wondered if she knew about that. The thought of Sophie at her uncle’s mercy filled him with a rage that bordered on uncontrollable.

She rose up to look down at their clasped hands. He swallowed hard at the smile she bestowed on him. Her heart was reflected in that smile and it made him ache because he had no idea how to keep that heart from breaking come morning. He had no idea how he would let her go, for that matter, so he pushed the thought from his mind and squeezed her close. They had tonight.

“Any regrets?”

“A warrior never regrets.” He couldn’t stop himself from smiling back.

“Does a warrior tell the woman he’s just taken back to his lodge and thoroughly ravished about himself?”

He laughed. “I doubt the woman would care to hear it.”

“Well I do. Tell me.” She folded her hands on his chest and rested her chin there, waiting.

It ran counter to his nature to talk about himself so he started with the most recent things and worked backward. He told her about the ranch he had worked at tracking horse thieves before coming to work for LaSalle. When he opened his mouth to tell her about the job before that, she started laughing.

“What’s so funny?” And he rolled so that he hovered above her.

“You don’t talk about yourself much, do you?” she managed between chuckles. “I don’t care about your profession, your life as a gunman or gunslinger or whatever you call yourself. I want to know about you.”

“I don’t talk about myself. Men generally don’t ask.”

“And women?”

Gray took a breath before he answered, knowing she probably wouldn’t like what he had to say, but she deserved honesty—as much as he was able—so that’s what he gave her. “They just want their money when we’re done.”

“Have there only been…prostitutes?” The smile was gone from her lovely face.

She wouldn’t understand what it was like for him. As a half-breed he was beneath any respectable woman’s notice and as a gunslinger he was too dangerous. After a while, he’d stopped noticing them. Had stopped thinking of any sort of future. “Yeah, but I haven’t lain with a woman in a long time, Sophie.”

After a while the couplings with prostitutes had seemed hollow and unfulfilling. And now that he knew the joy of pleasuring Sophie he wondered if sex with another woman would ever be satisfying again.

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