Texas Cattleman's Club, The Showdown, Volume 2 by Brenda Jackson

Author:Brenda Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460394823
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Elizabeth didn’t know how she felt about Daniel Warren. Or rather, she didn’t know how she felt about the assortment of maddening emotions he managed to bring out in her.

Early this morning, after the flamingo kidnapping and discovery of the letter asking for help, they’d made love again. Every time he’d stroked and kissed her, the thrills and sense of certainty—or was that uncertainty—only grew.

With cool wind pushing against her face as Ame thundered down the eastern plain, Elizabeth wondered at the similarities between the way her heart pounded with excitement now and her loss of breath whenever she was with Daniel. His slick dark hair, inviting sexy grin, a body that radiated strength on so many levels…everything about that man reduced her to jelly.

Perhaps it was childish, Elizabeth thought as she cantered in a wide semicircle and headed home, but during those times when she gazed so deeply into his eyes as she lay sated beneath him, the green became an endless ocean she was more than willing to drown in. Whenever his mouth traced the moist line from her cleavage all the way down, she couldn’t stop from quivering. Sighing. When his fingertips drifted along her side in the tingling afterglow, she wanted to close her eyes and hold on to that blessed moment forever.

And it frightened her that earlier, when Daniel had gone to work on a design idea, she’d had to bite her lip from begging him to stay.

As Ame galloped again and the wind roared past, Elizabeth tipped back her head and smiled at the warmth of the Texas sun on her face. Daniel made her feel so safe. Interesting and special. He validated her.

He left her wanting more and more.

Ame was hot and lathered by the time she walked him into the stables. Ricquo, a ranch hand, took the reins and offered to brush him down. Elizabeth strolled back to the house, relishing the smells of well-worked horse and sunflowers. But with Daniel offering to take her away for three days, she was ready for a change of scenery. A change of pace.

Biting her lip, she grinned to herself.

Where did he plan to take her?

Her riding boots crunching over gravel, Elizabeth strode up the path thinking Hawaii, Fiji, maybe even Australia. Then she spied an uninvited guest swinging on her back patio seat and spiraling anticipation turned to dread. She didn’t want to face that man today, but she should have known he’d show up.

Wanting to get it over with, she straightened her spine and picked up her pace.

“Morning, Chad.”

“I see Nita’s not around today,” he said, pushing out of the swing.

“Gone to see her mother. What can I do for you?”

“I received your correspondence this morning,” Chad said in his I’m disappointed in you tone. “I needed to tell you in person. I object.”

Wiggling out of her gloves, she skirted around him. “I know you do.”

They’d had this conversation—confrontation—many times. In fact, every time she instructed Chad to write a check for a family in need.

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