Shameless by Rosanne Bittner

Author:Rosanne Bittner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: e9781682303399
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2016-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

Nina quickly dressed, a myriad of emotions rushing through her—excitement, apprehension, thrill at the thought of an escape, but most wonderful of all, love. The look on Clay’s face that morning when he had come in to uncuff her ankles told her he wished he was waking up in the bed beside her. And for the first time in her life, she wished she could have awakened in a man’s arms. The thought of Clay’s arms around her was so much more comforting than when Emilio had occasionally held her. The feeling was so entirely different. In Clay’s arms she was a woman, not just someone’s sister; she was special, beautiful, worshipped, adored. Oh how she prayed Lieutenant Clay Youngblood was not lying to her. And how she prayed her escape would be successful!

Clay paid no special attention to her once the camp was awake and the cook hollered that breakfast was ready, such as it was. The small contingent of soldiers did not have a cook wagon along, just one man who had been assigned the duty of preparing something from the small food supply. Nina tried not to watch Clay too closely, just as he was careful not to create any suspicion by giving her any special looks or too much attention. Nina suspected it was as difficult for him as it was for her. She wanted to feel his arms around her, to hear him tell her that everything was going to be all right…to feel his mouth on hers again. She wanted so much to never take her eyes off him, to watch the way he walked, to study his big, strong hands and slim hips, his broad shoulders and finely chiseled face, his blue eyes. She wanted to touch the thick, sandy hair, to see him smile at her.

“Eat up, little lass,” a sergeant told her, handing her a plate of potatoes and bacon, a hard biscuit on the side. “Not much, but it will keep you going, although I wouldn’t want to be headed where you are. How’d a pretty thing like you get mixed up with a gang of horse thieves?”

“Leave her be, Sergeant Johnson,” Clay told the man. “You can’t trust her.”

Johnson looked at Clay and chuckled. “You’d best watch yourself then, sir.”

“You just keep an eye on those other two.”

Nina glanced over at Kinkade and Lions. Lions’s shirt was open, and she could see bandages wrapped diagonally from his wounded shoulder around his side. Kinkade wore a bloody bandage on one thigh, where his pants had been cut open to tend the wound. She could not help feeling sorry for them. They had become friends to her and Emilio. Now all the others were dead, Emilio and Carlos gone. Their plans for getting rich were also gone.

“Emilio’s out there, Nina, you can be sure,” Kinkade called to her. “The fancy lieutenant is going to end up with a bullet in the back if he gets us any closer to that fort.”

“Keep your mouth shut, Kinkade, or I’ll have you gagged and let you go without breakfast,” Clay said.

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