Texas Lover by Adrienne Dewolfe

Author:Adrienne Dewolfe [deWolfe, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781614173168
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2012-07-17T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

He never should have done it.

That's what Wes told himself as he watched the sun's first rays creep past the chinks in the wall and streak Rorie's hair a tawny shade of gold.

He never should have made love to her. Especially the second time.

The first time had been almost forgivable, considering how she'd broken his heart into pieces with her tears. He'd always been as worthless as a four-card flush when a female started bawling.

It just wasn't fair that a woman who loved children as much as Rorie did couldn't bring a few little ones of her own into the world. As mothers went, she had to be the best he'd ever seen. And as fathers went...

Well, even a blind man could see her orphans were a sight better off without Jarrod Sinclair.

Wes scowled at the thought of Rorie's ex-husband, a man he'd never met but downright loathed. In fact, Wes wasn't sure who he despised more: Jarrod Sinclair or Bill Malone.

Shifting carefully, he gazed down at the woman lying so trustingly in his arms. An unbidden warmth—a soft, sweet swell of caring—surged through him. That's when he knew he was staring down the barrel of a real dilemma. Whatever had happened to his motto, "No ladies, no complications"? Whatever had happened to his brain?

As best as he could figure, it had gone stone-cold dead about one o'clock that morning. That was when Rorie had sheathed him inside a scabbard of silk. She'd been as slick and tight as a virgin, minus the awkward barrier. The fact that she'd proved herself an agile and versatile lover, once she overcame her initial reluctance, didn't surprise him in the least. He'd always suspected that girl had a fire banked inside her.

What did surprise him, though, was the power of their lovemaking. To describe it as earth-moving didn't do it justice. There'd been something soulful, something downright spiritual, in fact, about gazing into her luminous eyes and feeling his heart float away.

Ordinarily he didn't get so fanciful about coupling. His need for physical release was as necessary—and just as cyclical—as his need for food. Fortunately over the years, he'd learned to live with his hunger, since a Ranger's life didn't lend itself to regular female company, and he'd become resigned to feeling lucky if he found a woman once a week to bed.

Maybe that was why he'd been happier than a pup with two tails after making love to Rorie. When she didn't flee back to the house in shame, he'd started jabbering like a magpie. Lord, the things that had come out of his mouth. He'd told her about Zack and Aunt Lally, even a little about Fancy and Cord, and about the pranks he'd played back in the good-old days, before he had to leave the ranch forever. She'd listened so patiently, stroking his hair and smiling, that he'd blurted out what surely must have been another of his sins.

"You know the first time I wanted you, Rorie? It was

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