Seducing the Sheriff by Marie-Nicole Ryan

Author:Marie-Nicole Ryan [Ryan, Marie-Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2009-12-14T18:30:00+00:00

More than a little chilled from the night time temperatures dropping, Star shivered, unable to feign sleeping any longer. Her back muscles ached. If fact, her entire body ached from lying on the ground all night.

“Get up!”

“I can’t. You have to help me.” If her bastard brother would just get close enough she’d kick his cojones clear up to his throat.

“I’ll help you all right.” He kicked her thigh with the toe of his boot.

A sharp pain shot though her upper thigh. She winced and glared at him with her best let-me-get-free-and-see-what-I’ll-do expression then gave up and rolled over to her knees and eased to her feet, struggling a bit to regain her balance. “Where’re you taking me?”

“You’ll see soon enough.” He grabbed her roughly, ready to throw her body over the saddle.

Think. “Just let me ride upright and tie my hands in front of me. It’s all I’ll be able to do to keep in the saddle.”

“Can’t take a chance on you gettin’ away. You’re worth too much.”

A shiver of fear speared its way through her. “Worth too much? I’m not the one with a bounty on my head.”

“You’d be surprised.” He let out a grating laugh.

Somehow she had to get away before he got her on the horse. She kneed his gut, and he grunted and dropped her. She landed on her feet and took off in a dead run.

Dammit. Nothing but plains and hills as far as she could see. If she could just get far enough ahead, she could slip into one of the caves that abounded in the area.

Hell. Who was she fooling? How could she outrun a man on a horse when all she had were her two feet?

Her brother recovered quickly—too quickly—and grabbed her by the collar of her shirtwaist and shook her like a dog with a rabbit. “Not so fast.” He shoved her to the ground then whipped a rope around her ankles as if she were a runaway calf.

“You just better be glad he wants you alive or the buzzards would already be circling for their dinner.”

“What he? Where are you taking me?”

“Shut your trap.” He threw her across her mare and tied the reins to his pommel. “Let’s just see you try to get away now.”

Only one person could be behind the reward offer. Teddy Darwin. Had he followed her all the way to Texas? Or was it just one of his hired Pinkerton agents?

Teddy she could manage…provided she could just get loose.

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