Her Outlaw by Geralyn Dawson

Author:Geralyn Dawson [Dawson, Geralyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical
ISBN: 9781460304600
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-05-01T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

DAIR DRIFTED TOWARD WAKEFULNESS a contented man. He’d spent the night under his own roof in a comfortable bed snuggled up to the most exciting, sensual, sensuous woman he’d ever known. How many times had he wakened her through the night? Three or was it four? She’d awakened him twice. God, it was good to be alive.

All right, MacRae. That’s not a direction you want to take your thoughts. Not today. He frowned into his pillow, then reached for the woman with whom he shared the bed.

He found empty space. His frown deepened and he wrenched open his eyes. The sudden hot weight in his belly eased when he spied Emma Tate back in her nightgown and down on her hands and knees beside the bed.

He rolled and sat up. “I hesitate to ask, but…”

Worry dotted her expression. “I can’t find my necklace.”

The hot weight settled back into his belly. “Emma, I didn’t steal it. I didn’t leave the bed all night. I wouldn’t do that to you again. Not even before last night, but especially—”

“I know, Dair. I know you didn’t take it.”

“You do?” He rubbed his hands over his face. “I’m confused.”

“I know you wouldn’t steal the necklace from me again.” She rose to her feet, then added, “Nevertheless, it’s missing.”

Thinking aloud, he said, “You wore it with the nightgown. When did you take it off? Did I take it off?”

“I did.” She took one more survey of the floor beneath the bed, then stood. “I took it off after the first time we made love. You collapsed on top of me when you were done and it was pressing into my chest.”

“Oh, that’s right,” he said, remembering.

“I set it on the bedside table. I know I did. It’s disappeared, just like Kat’s did.” She frowned, her eyes narrowing. “Jake Kimball hasn’t come to visit, has he?”

Dair shot her a scowl, then rolled out of bed and grabbed his pants from the chair where he’d left them. As he pulled them on, he made a quick scan of the room. Silver candlesticks remained on the mantel. An ivory trinket box sat on the desk. A Flemish landscape hung on the wall. Nothing but the necklace was missing. A Highland Riever type hadn’t paid a call.

“This makes no sense,” he said. “Someone would have had to get into this room while we were asleep. Through a door that squeaks every time it’s opened. That simply couldn’t have happened. I sleep lightly. I would have awakened. It has to be here, Emma. You’re just not looking in the right place.”

“Then you find it,” she snapped. She flounced to her wardrobe and removed a clean set of clothing, then paraded into the bathroom and slammed the door behind her.

He winced at the noise, then muttered a foul word and made a quick, but thorough search of the room. When that failed to turn up the missing piece of jewelry, he did it again. The hot weight of dread settled into his stomach like an extended-stay guest.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.