Rainbow Fire by Emilie Richards

Author:Emilie Richards
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romantic suspense, womens fiction, karate, australia, classic romance, opal mining, coober pedy
Publisher: Emilie Richards

Chapter 11

DILLON WOVE HIS fingers through Kelsey's hair and tugged to bring her face to his. He had meant to demand an explanation, but one look at the joy in her eyes was his undoing. With a groan, he covered her dirt-streaked face with kisses, finally claiming her mouth. He tasted dust and desire as she wrapped her arms around his back and pressed her body against his.

He finally tore his lips from hers. "What are you doing out in the middle of the bloody desert?"

Kelsey came back to her senses slowly. When she did, she realized they were standing in the open, targets for anyone who wanted to track them through the storm. "Someone tried to kill me." She grabbed his hand and pulled him toward the shelter of the hill where she had huddled in fear. "He may still be out there somewhere," she said softly.

Dillon wasn't sure if the red haze he saw was dust or fury. "Tell me."

Kelsey suppressed a shiver at his tone. This man was not the man who had kissed her. "I was run off the road by a gigantic truck," she said, moving close to him so her words wouldn't carry. His response was to the point and profane.

Her hands slid between his, begging to be clasped, and he didn't deny her. "I found my way back to the road and braced myself against a tree, hoping someone would come along." She stopped, wondering if she should tell the truth. "Hoping you would find me," she said at last. "Dillon, I was such an idiot."

He agreed, but his hands tightened around hers. "Go on."

"After a while I heard the rumble of an engine, and I thought I was going to be rescued. Then the rumble stopped. I heard a click, and then nothing. I shouted, giving my name. A bullet split the tree over my head."

"And you didn't see anything?"

"No."

"What did you do then?"

"I made my way out here, hoping I'd be impossible to find."

"You bloody well were. I was about to go back out to the road."

She made a small sound of dismay, and Dillon pulled her close again, wrapping his arms around her back. He meant to reassure her, but at the first touch of her body against his, he kissed her again, a hard, bruising kiss that had nothing to do with reassurance.

Kelsey parted her lips for the assault. She was alive, but now she felt alive. Alive and overjoyed to be. His hands slid slowly to her waist, molding her flesh as his mouth molded hers. She was pliant in his arms, no trace of the woman who had once demanded that he not hold her. She wanted to be held. She wanted him to hold her. She wanted him.

Finally, Dillon was the one to break away. For moments he had forgotten dust and danger. He had forgotten everything except the way she felt in his arms. "I've got to get you back to the dugout," he said, forcing speech through a throat constricted with desire.

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