Naked Flame by Desiree Holt

Author:Desiree Holt
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: erotic;romance;western;Texas;suspense;danger;small town
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Liam wanted to pinch himself to be sure he wasn’t dreaming. He couldn’t believe his luck. Less than a week ago, he’d been resigned to a life of single cursedness—the extreme opposite of blessedness—wrapped in his nightmarish memories of war and stuck with an inability to relate to people anymore except on a remote level. He made a good bar owner but a terrible companion.

It was the strangest thing. He’d come home from Afghanistan not the least bit interested in connecting with a woman. Some days it was all he could do to connect with himself. The aftermath of battle, Darren’s death, his own wound and his nightmares had seen to that. Or so he’d thought. Now he wanted to pay homage to whatever stroke of fate had sent Charity Vance into his life. The only words he could use to describe their relationship were instantaneous combustion. When he thought about their first night together—sex in a meadow under a tree because he had no place to take her—he was amazed that she’d ever consented to see him again. But the shock was that she’d been as much into it as he was. They’d spent nearly every minute together since then. With Edie still out sick, she insisted on filling in at the bar and actually seemed to be enjoying it. Go figure.

And she was staying at the house with him and Mike. He still cringed when he recalled suggesting it. He’d suggested he might find an apartment or something where they could be alone. But her answer had amazed him, as did most everything she said and did.

“Liam. That house is big enough for ten people. It’s almost as big as the Butterfly. If Mike can tolerate me, I can certainly get along with him.”

He was amazed at how well it worked. In a short time, she and his dad had bonded and he had become the family she hadn’t had for a very long time. There were plenty of times when they were alone too, precious hours of intimacy where they learned how to please each other. When they talked about every detail of their lives. He told her about Afghanistan and the attack that had killed Darren. She told him about her years on the Dallas Police Force and the shootout when the task force took down Paco Morales and his crew.

She calmed him when the nightmares woke him at night and he soothed her when the memory of Morales’s threats woke her in the dark. They worked together seamlessly at the bar, and even Mac gave her a grudging compliment now and then. It was almost too good to be true, but he wasn’t about to question it. Maybe it would fall apart, but he was going to enjoy it while it lasted.

He wondered what she’d told that crew of women led by Amy Montgomery and what they thought about the whole thing. None of them were shy about expressing their opinions, and he was sure they had a million questions about this.

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