Her Lone Protector (Historical Western Romance) by Pam Crooks

Author:Pam Crooks [Crooks, Pam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Romance, Women's Fiction, Victorian Era, 19th Century, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Love Possibility, Frontier-Pioneer Era, Cowboy & Western Romance, Hearts Desire, American West, Clean & Wholesome, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Beautiful & Feisty, Mercenary & Patriot
Publisher: Pam Crooks
Published: 2020-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

He heard the faint creak of the hinges, and he went still.

Her feet padded closer, then halted beside him. Anticipation erupted within Creed. The satisfaction from why she’d come.

He glanced up. Starlight glinted on her hair, a halo of sable silk flowing down her shoulders. She stood over him, swathed in a blanket, slender and beautiful.

She said nothing, did nothing. He sensed her uncertainty, her unwillingness to make the first move.

Coming out had been enough. He’d take it from here.

He threw back half his blanket. Her hesitation seemed to melt, like morning dew under a hot sun. She unswathed herself from the wool and draped it over him, adding it to his own.

She came to him, then, Venus herself, unfolding her body to lie beside his. He covered her up to her neck, but already her warmth soaked into him. He raised himself up on his elbow to see her better. And waited.

A moment passed. Her head swiveled toward him. “I come because of what we talk about tonight.”

His manhood stirred. So did his imagination of how her lips would taste against his. “The fee for my services.”

“Yes.”

“You’re ready to haggle a price?” he asked, hopeful.

“Not yet.”

He forced himself to be patient. “What then?”

“I come out to tell you I am sorry.”

“For what?” he asked, making her say it.

She tore her glance away. “I should have listened to you and not go to the anarchist meeting.”

He grunted. Cost her some pride to admit it, he knew. The apology she refused to give earlier.

“If I have a disguise as clever as yours, then Nikolai would not know me, and I would not have made the mistake.” She bit her lip. “Now it is done, and I cannot change it.”

“We’re stuck with the consequences, aren’t we?” he said, not giving her an inch on it.

“Yes.” She stared up at the stars. “And I cannot shoot Nikolai in cold blood.”

“Things would’ve turned ugly if you had.”

As it was, he’d barely had time to get her out of there before both of them were shot for their trouble.

“Yes,” she admitted.

“You could’ve been thrown in jail, and then what would you have done?”

Or him, for that matter, besides go crazy with worry? Would’ve taken some legal wrangling to get her out again, for sure.

“I think of those things, yes.”

So had he. Over and over.

She shifted to her side, rustling the blankets to face him, their bodies a feather’s breadth apart. Embers stirred, deep in his groin, the desire to feel her pressed full against him. Soon, he hoped, he would.

“But now we know the brothers plan to kill the president. They are guilty of two things,” she said.

He nodded. “Arson and an assassination plot. Both of them are damned serious crimes.”

“I want to help you arrest them.”

He refrained from explaining he was a soldier, not a policeman, and that she had no business trying to arrest anyone.

“They’ll get their justice due them,” he said. “As soon as possible.” His mind sifted through the judicial process.

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