Smoke River Bride by Lynna Banning

Author:Lynna Banning [Banning, Lynna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Western
ISBN: 9780373297474
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Some nights, like tonight, Thad got hard just touching Leah’s skin. He wanted to hold her against his body and kiss her until his brain shut out all those thoughts about being sensible. About being fair to her.

This was sure as hell one of those nights, because he could scarcely keep from rolling her over into his arms. He so wanted to make her his.

He couldn’t let himself think about it. But with a groan of frustration he realized he couldn’t not think about it. About her—this woman who had moved into his house and into his life.

He had to admit Leah was moving into his heart, and he was beginning to be terrified in a way he only half understood.

He had loved Hattie. When she died his life had stopped, but now he was starting to feel alive again. He felt something for Leah—in fact, he felt a great deal for her. And deep down it scared him. If he let himself love Leah and then lost her, he would never recover.

But.

He could hear her breathing softly beside him. “Leah?” he whispered. His voice came out harsher than he’d planned.

She brought her small, capable hand to his bare chest. “Yes, Thad?”

Desire flooded him, made him ache. “Leah, I want—I want to make love to you.”

She laughed softly. “Yes, I want it, too.” Then she pressed her lips to his shoulder.

He lifted her chin and caught her mouth under his. Kissing her was like tasting something cool and soft and finding a blaze beneath the surface. He hadn’t expected it to feel this different; was it because he was different?

She parted her lips and he slid his tongue between them. A little moan escaped her, but he couldn’t stop tasting her. She was so sweet and hot he suddenly wanted to weep.

A voice in the back of his mind yammered for him to stop, but he couldn’t. Not now. There was only Leah and him, and he wanted all of her. Now. His hunger and his need were making him crazy, and when she moved in his arms he knew he was lost.

“Tell me to stop if you don’t want this,” he said, his voice gravelly.

“I do want this,” she murmured. “I have wanted this for a long time, Thad. I have waited for it.” She brushed her lips against his throat. “I am glad it is happening now.”

His groan was muffled in the lemony scent of her hair. He skimmed one hand up under her silk night robe and found her breast, small and firm as a melon. Gently he ran his fingers over the nipple, stroking the soft flesh until it hardened into a peak.

Then, slowly and deliberately, he moved his hand below her waist into the soft hair between her thighs. He parted her legs and stroked his finger over her entrance. She was wet and hot. Oh, heavens above, he couldn’t stop. He would explode if he didn’t take her.

Gently, he pressed one finger into her soft, moist heat.

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