Native Born by Jenna Kernan

Author:Jenna Kernan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Clyne deepened the kiss as he dragged Cassidy against him. She molded to him as if this was where she was meant to be. Then he realized it was his longing he felt, his need for this woman, too long denied because he knew that she could not be so easily set aside. Because Cassidy knew the warrior’s way. She had made an unusual choice and she had continued the fight. Nothing was more important to her except her daughter.

“Do we know what we’re doing?” he asked.

She shook her head. “I don’t think so.”

She stroked his shoulders, her fingers kneading the muscles there, wordlessly seeking contact.

Suddenly he felt like some dreadful cliché. Tarzan with his Jane, King Kong entranced by Fay Wray, the cover of every one of those romance novels that showed a naked warrior gripping a nearly naked blonde and had the word savage emblazoned on the cover.

“I don’t date white women.”

She cocked her head. “This isn’t a date.”

He still felt the need to qualify. “I’m going to marry an Apache woman. Someone who understands our culture and our ways and can help me lead our people.”

She shrugged.

“I didn’t want you to think...” His words fell away at the open look of invitation she cast him.

“I don’t.”

She raked both hands through her fine hair that fell immediately back to place. “I have been without a man for a long time, Clyne. And I haven’t missed it. You make me miss the heat and the friction. You make me wonder and fantasize. Maybe it is because we are alike or because we are different. But this attraction is something new. I’ve never had a battle like this before.”

“Is this a battle we need to fight?” he asked.

“Yes, because I’m not sure sleeping with you will make this need go away.”

“It might,” he said.

“What if it doesn’t?”

What, indeed.

The tingle of danger mixed with his arousal increased the ache.

The connection of Jovanna meant they would never be totally rid of each other. Unless his sister chose to stay with Cassidy. That was what Gabe believed would happen. It was why he pushed so hard to have Cassidy here on Black Mountain.

Clyne thought of Jovanna’s tears. Gabe had been right.

His brother didn’t see the battle. He saw the compromise. Clyne was a master of compromise. Why hadn’t he seen it with this woman?

Was it only because he wanted her and so needed her as far away from himself as possible?

Her eyes beckoned, issuing an invitation he could not resist. Her arms circled his waist.

“This will not solve anything,” he said.

She agreed with a nod and stepped closer, offering her mouth. “It will make everything worse.”

She was right. Whatever it was between them was strong and growing stronger. And he knew the best way to get rid of this kind of unwelcome physical need was to get it over with. The rodeo circuit had taught him that much. Lots of tension. Lots of heat and lots of mornings creeping from a hotel bedroom with his boots in his hands.

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