Secluded at Broken Spur Ranch by RaeAnne Thayne

Author:RaeAnne Thayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2024-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Even as his mouth descended to touch hers, he cursed himself for his weakness. He knew damn well he shouldn’t be doing this, that he was compromising the whole investigation. If Beckstead ever discovered he had more than a professional interest in the case—and in the lovely widow who could be their key witness against DeMarranville—he would yank him so fast his head would spin.

He just wanted a kiss, he told himself. One tiny kiss, just one more chance to taste that sweetness. Surely one kiss couldn’t blow the whole case, could it?

He didn’t give himself a chance to argue. His mouth met hers like a hawk finding its nest and he felt the impact of that single soft connection clear to his toes. She tasted every bit as sweet as he remembered from that day in her trailer—like ripe peaches, bursting with flavor.

Her eyelids fluttered shut at the first touch of his mouth, but he forced his to stay open. He wanted to watch the way her thick lashes fanned her cheeks and the way her skin took on a color like the pale pink of the sky when the sun first sneaked above the mountains.

His fingers caught and tangled in that sleek cascade of hair. The contrast of silk against the roughness of his skin was so sensual, so unbelievably erotic, it ignited fireworks of need in him.

What was it about this woman that affected him so powerfully, that made him feel as if he were on the brink of some mysterious, wonderful discovery?

She had a fragile, innocent kind of beauty, sure. But his attraction to her went far deeper than that.

She was kind, he realized with a jolt. A genuinely goodhearted person. Even when she was in the midst of what was undoubtedly the most terrifying time of her life, she had been moved almost to tears when he told her of his father’s death. Hell, he had practically watched her heart smash into tiny little pieces because she thought he had lost the Broken Spur.

He couldn’t remember the last time he had come in contact with that kind of goodness. For too many years his life had teemed with hatred and violence, and Maggie’s goodness was like a soft, healing rain after years of drought.

He ruthlessly forced the thought away. It wasn’t like that. Just as she had said the other night back in Butte, they had some powerful chemistry bubbling between them. That was absolutely all there was to it.

There was no room in his life for goodness, for a soft, vulnerable woman like Maggie. He had to be hard, completely focused, or he would never be able to atone to his father for what he’d done.

He knew he should have stopped the kiss right then, but the feel of her mouth under his was too enticing, too welcoming, and he was dying of thirst. He couldn’t resist teasing his tongue ever so gently at the corner of her lips. She drew in a sharp, ragged breath at the soft contact but she didn’t pull away.

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