Salvation in the Sheriff's Kiss by Kelly Boyce

Author:Kelly Boyce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-01-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The luncheon went wonderfully. Brody, Rachel’s young brother, joined them and Meredith was shocked by how much he had grown. He’d been only a boy of seven when she’d left. Now here he was, almost a man. Bertram had filled her in on what Rachel and her family had been through in the past six months with Robert’s passing and Shamus Kirkpatrick’s attempt to steal Rachel’s land. The scandal that Shamus was Brody’s true father had only just begun to settle before she reached town. Meredith guessed Brody had earned his manhood the hard way. He seemed more weathered and serious than most boys his age. But despite the wonderful company and the chance to catch up with Rachel, Meredith could not stop thinking about the kiss.

What had she been thinking?

She hadn’t. That was the problem. She hadn’t thought at all. Her head tried to warn her, but her silly heart and complicit body conspired to silence it. Worse still was the humiliating realization that she wanted to do it again, making her a fool twice over.

The wagon wheel hit a bump and jostled them, bumping her body against Hunter’s hard, lean frame. They sat close together sharing the blanket Rachel had provided to keep them warm.

The comfortable silence they had shared on their trip up had been replaced with an awkward tension; the kiss stretched between them like an open wound both were too afraid to bandage. At this rate, they would reach town and she’d be no more the wiser about what information Foster had imparted to Hunter than when she first stopped him on the step to ask.

Hunter cleared his throat. It was about the third time in the past five minutes and it grated on her last nerve. Finally, she couldn’t stand it any longer.

“If you have something to say, say it, but if you’re going to apologize for what happened, save your breath. I take full responsibility.”

From the corner of her eye she saw him turn to stare at her, his eyebrows lifted in surprise. “You do?”

She gave a curt nod. Pa had taught her to own up to her mistakes. “Of course. You said we should go inside and I didn’t listen. I just stood there and...and...” Her face flamed anew.

“Looked so damn beautiful I couldn’t help myself.”

“Yes. No! No, that’s not what I did.”

He grinned and turned to face forward. “Beg to differ on that account.”

She had no words to defend his claim. She cleared her throat that only made his grin grow wider. Tarnation, this isn’t what she wanted to talk about. “Maybe you could just tell me what Foster said.”

She chose to ignore the chuckle that echoed off the trees surrounding them. The thick forest cut out much of the fading afternoon light and shadows layered the path ahead. By the time they reached town, it would be dark. Hunter had rigged a lamp to the front of the wagon to help light the way.

Hunter relayed the conversation

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