His for Christmas by Cara Colter & Michelle Douglas & Janice Lynn

Author:Cara Colter & Michelle Douglas & Janice Lynn [Colter, Cara & Douglas, Michelle & Lynn, Janice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472045072
Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Ltd
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Luke’s heartbeat didn’t slow until Keira’s shaking started to ease. He found he still couldn’t loosen his arms from around her yet.

He bit back something rude and succinct. When he’d first seen that snake, and registered the fear on Keira’s face, an anger so fierce and scalding had gripped him it had almost left no room for reason.

He’d remembered himself just in time.

Tell me three things you’re grateful for.

Keira was alive and safe in his arms. He was grateful for that.

Snakes might be a protected species in Australia, but if it had bitten her he’d have torn it apart with his bare hands.

She adjusted herself in his arms, sat up a little. He reluctantly loosened his hold, but didn’t let her go.

He’d let her go in a moment, he told himself. When he was one hundred percent sure she was okay.

Her eyes met his. ‘Thank you for rescuing me.’ Her hand inched across her stomach. ‘For rescuing us. I didn’t have a clue what to do.’

‘You did great.’ She had too. She’d wanted to run, he’d read that in her face, but she’d conquered her fear and followed his instructions.

Tell me three things you’re grateful for.

He was grateful she hadn’t been bitten.

She gestured to herself in his lap. ‘What a big baby you must think me.’

He didn’t think her a baby. Not at all. She was feminine and soft and, for all her slightness, curvy where it counted. Which was an unfortunate thought to have when she was in his arms like this. Very unfortunate. And bewitching.

‘I think you’re brave and lovely.’ Perhaps he shouldn’t have said that last bit.

Dammit, though, she was lovely!

With a smile, she reached up and brushed her lips across his cheek in the lightest of kisses. He felt its impact all the way down to the soles of his feet.

‘Thank you,’ she whispered.

The scent of vanilla engulfed him, and something inside him melted. He stared into her grey eyes—her beautiful grey eyes—then he leant forward and placed his lips on hers.

She didn’t close her eyes. He didn’t close his. He moved his lips over hers—gentle, testing, ready to draw back at the slightest hint or hesitation from her—but after a moment of stunned stillness her lips softened and shaped themselves to his.

And then her eyelids fluttered closed.

With a groan, Luke gathered her closer. She tasted so good. She tasted so…good!

He ran his tongue across her bottom lip. She gasped and trembled. That gasp reached right inside his chest and dragged him under. Her hand dived into the hair at his nape to pull him closer. Her lips opened under his and he lost himself in the taste, the sensation…the freedom of kissing Keira.

The taste of her, the feel of her, woke parts of him that had been dead and numb for too long. Her hand burrowed its way beneath his shirt to trace the contours of his chest. He thought his lungs might burst with need when she ran the palm of her hand back and forth across his nipple.

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