Texan for the Taking by Charlene Sands

Author:Charlene Sands
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-07T13:45:54+00:00

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Drea stood outside the door of The Baron Hotel’s top floor suite, ready to knock. That she was here at all still shocked the stuffing out of her. But Katie had been right. Drea had unfinished business to settle with Mason and so his proposed midnight interlude might not go exactly as he’d planned.

Getting away hadn’t been hard at all. She’d waited until her father was sawing logs, before quietly stepping out of the house. She’d left him a note saying that she had trouble sleeping and had gone for a drive, just in case he woke and didn’t find her home. All that was true, so she hadn’t really lied. At least that was what she told herself.

She knocked on the door softly and heard footsteps approach.

Swallowing hard, she braced herself. When Mason opened the door, his shoulders relaxed, a small smile surfaced and she read great relief in his expression. This wasn’t the confident man she’d expected to find. Instead, Mason’s vulnerability had shone through, touching something deep and precious in her heart. He hadn’t been sure she’d show up. And he’d been worried, perhaps even saddened, to think she’d let him down.

It wasn’t fair. She had Mason pegged as an arrogant pain in her side, and he was proving her wrong.

“Drea.” There was a wistful tone in his voice. So different than the man who ran an empire, the man who commanded respect at all times. Mason Boone was full of surprises.

“I’m...here.” She lifted her shoulders, then let them fall.

He took her hand and gently pulled her into the room. “I’m happy to see that.”

He let her hand go and she walked into the suite taking in the living area, with its fireplace and twin sofas facing each other, the dining area and the hallway that led to the other rooms. It was luxurious and grand, something she’d expect from a Boone. But it was also homey in a way that said Mason spent a lot of time here, from the scattering of square, embroidered pillows on the floor, to the sports magazines on the coffee table to a giant screen TV on the wall. She recognized the pillows as being Lottie’s handiwork. Peaches, oranges and apples filled a bowl on the kitchen counter and photos of Rising Springs Ranch graced the hallway walls. Soft classical music played in the background, perhaps the biggest surprise of all.

“Is this your Zen place?” she asked turning to find him watching her from the middle of the living room.

“Or my man cave.”

His gaze was forever on her, as if to say he couldn’t believe she was really here.

“No, it’s definitely Zen.” She walked to the window and stared out at the town Mason’s ancestors had established. How must that feel? To know your family had built this town from the ground up. To have streets, a hospital, an entire town named after the Boones. To have that entitlement.

She looked at Mason, standing there, curiosity on his beautiful face. “You didn’t think I’d come, did you?”

He sighed and walked over to her.

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