One Step Away: Once Upon a Proposal by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 1

“Kiss me.”

Gabriel Gannon stared at the petite bundle of curly-haired brunette energy standing in the doorway of his grandmother’s carriage house. “Excuse—”

He didn’t even get the rest of it out, as the girl—after a harried glance around him—grabbed his shoulders and yanked him down with an urgency that surprised him so much, he couldn’t help but go with it.

Her mouth pressed against his. “Kiss me,” she muttered again, her lips moving against his as she twined her arms around his neck. “And for pity’s sake, make it look good.”

Look good? His brain was faintly aware of some insult there, but his hands were too busy being filled by the shapely body practically climbing up his. He had a vague recollection of the last time he’d kissed a woman. Some leggy blond architect he’d met in Colorado. Maybe he’d even taken her to bed.

Hell. Who could remember a minor detail like that when he had the taste of this little body-climber in his mouth, making him feel like the top of his head was about to blow right off?

His fingers flexed against her waist. Spread against her back, feeling the supple stretch of her spine through the soft fabric of her cherry-red shirt.

He’d seen her before, of course. She was his grandmother’s new tenant, living in the old carriage house at the rear of Fiona Gannon’s stately Seattle property.

But he damn sure had never figured on this.

His fingers flexed again and it took every speck of self-control he had not to run them down to her hips, to her rear, and drag her even tighter against him. Not to press her back against the opened front door—which he fleetingly remembered that he was there to fix—and really make it look good...

She made a soft sound, her mouth opening, her fingers sliding through his hair and her tongue dancing against his. Even through their shirts he could feel the soft push of her breasts; could feel, too, the way her heartbeat raced.

Or maybe that was his.

All he could think about was where in the hell was the nearest bed. Or couch. Or floor.

He took a step. Then another. Over the threshold of the doorway.

“Bobbie?” The deep voice came from behind them and an oath raced through Gabe’s thoughts, but not past his lips, which were still fused to hers. “What’s going on here?”

Gabe tore his mouth away, hauling in a deep gasp. His hands slowly—way too slowly—let go of his kissing bandit as he lowered her feet back to the floor. He caught a glimpse of startled gray eyes before her thick lashes fell and she looked around him at the man who’d interrupted them.

“Tim,” she greeted, sounding as breathless as Gabe felt. “What are you doing here?”

Gabe couldn’t even move away. For one thing, she had her arms wrapped around him in a maddening way that kept him trapped against her luscious curves. For another, he was none too anxious to face a strange guy while he felt strangled by jeans that had gone too tight.

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