High Country Hero by Lynna Banning

Author:Lynna Banning [Lynna Banning]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781408901144
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2008-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Cord finished arranging the saddlebags on the mare’s back, slapped the animal’s rump and watched it amble on down the main trail. Then he carefully stepped his own horse into the creek, brushing away the hoofprints on the bank with a huckleberry branch.

Sage waited for him to mount. He splashed into the water and swung his lean body up behind her, pulled her back against his hard, warm chest. His arms came around her as he reached for the reins, and she closed her eyes.

She felt safe. Protected. Not because he had sent her horse off as a decoy, or because he’d stuffed his revolver in the inside pocket of his deerskin jacket. She knew he would keep her safe because she was beginning to know him. It would take a lifetime to understand the inner complexities of Cordell Lawson, and she pitied the woman—women—who would try. There must be myriad females in his world who would test their feminine intuition on this enigmatic mixture of hardened predator and pleasure seeker.

But she wouldn’t be one of them.

Not that she didn’t have the interest. A more intriguing man she’d never encountered in all her twenty-five years, but…well, she didn’t have the time. As the only doctor in Russell’s Landing, she would have plenty of mysteries to pursue, medical ones. There wouldn’t be enough hours in a day to plumb them all, her fellow physicians back in Philadelphia had warned. Her days and hours would be chock-full, saving lives.

But while she was out here in the wilderness with Cord, there was nothing to stop her…well, investigating another aspect of life—one she would have no chance to explore when she returned to the dedicated professional existence she’d chosen. She sighed and settled her backbone into the curve of Cord’s chest.

It felt good. He felt good. How could she have lived all these years without knowing how wonderful a man’s body felt?

Until this moment, she’d spent all her time studying things in books, learning about a human being from lectures and seminars. Even during her internship and residency, the focus had always been on other people’s bodies, other people’s feelings, never hers.

There were so many things she didn’t know, things she had never experienced or even thought about. Why, for example, did her insides feel so unsettled, so…tingly when Cord touched her? When she sat, as she did now, with her buttocks pressing against his crotch?

A thousand other questions swirled in her head, teasing her curiosity to the point where she thought she would bubble over, like sarsaparilla on a hot afternoon. She squirmed against him, heard his breath hiss in, and smiled into the darkness.

The horse plodded in the center of the rushing stream, hesitating occasionally to find sure footing, then moving on with a switch of her tail. How simple to be a horse. A mare.

Sage had seen stallions cover mares in her father’s remuda and at the Ollesen brothers’ stable yard. All the mare had to do was stand there, looking unconcerned.

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