Outlaw Derek by Kay Hooper

Author:Kay Hooper [Hooper, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-53573-3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

Shannon came back to the awareness of her existence as a separate being very slowly, and the heavy heat of his body over hers helped ease the shock of transition. In a moment of clarity, she realized that never, as long as she lived, would she forget that brief, stark instant of sharing. Her trembling hands moved over his powerful back and shoulders, and she smiled when he lifted his head to gaze down at her.

Derek eased up onto his elbows, and his hands framed her face gently. One thumb brushed the swollen curve of her lower lip, and a slight frown drew his brows together. “Was I too rough, sweetheart? I didn’t want to be.” His voice was husky.

Shannon’s smile widened. “No.” She lifted a hand to touch his cheek. “No.”

He wanted to ask: was it a mistake? But he didn’t. He knew that only the morning, and the mornings to follow, would answer the question. He turned his head to kiss her soft palm, and then sought her lips almost blindly, wishing he could stop time, stop the world. Wishing he could transport them both instantly to some deserted island where no one would bother them and she wouldn’t be able to run away from him when morning came.

“Derek?” She was a little puzzled, a little anxious, bothered by something she felt in him, something that seemed alien to what she knew of him. Derek afraid? No. No, not him.

He smiled suddenly, those sapphire-flecked dark eyes glowing down at her. “You’re so lovely, Shannon.”

And she smiled slowly in return, forgetting anxiety. For once, just this once, she believed him. “Thank you.”

Still smiling, he eased away from her and got them both under the covers, making her giggle because he mildly cursed a stubborn blanket, and because he very solemnly arranged them both beneath the covers so that he could hold her “just right” during the night.

Shannon fell asleep still smiling, cradled in his arms, listening to his heart beat.

She woke twice in the night to the vague thought that he certainly wasn’t getting the rest he needed, but not about to protest his renewed desire. Both times he assumed responsibility for their lovemaking, and both times she took note of that without thinking about it very much. She was too wrapped up in the fire he ignited to allow for much thinking.

Even in the heat of passion, Shannon had known morning would come, and that she would have to face him and herself, have to accept and understand what she had done. But she wasn’t prepared for morning to arrive with a breathless shock of interruption that cut them apart with the deadly swiftness of a knife.

She felt Derek move before she heard anything, and the tension she sensed in him brought her wide awake. She was sitting up even as he slid from the bed, clutching the sheet to her breasts and blinking in a sudden awareness of the soft buzzing sound that was coming from a little box she hadn’t noticed on the nightstand at his side of the bed.

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