That Mysterious Texas Brand Man by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Shayne, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373650217
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1998-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Marcus was lying when he said he didn't believe in love. In relationships. In sharing. Because Casey sensed that he did. Maybe Laura was right and he just didn't realize it.

Oh, sure, he came on all independent and arrogant and macho. But he'd revealed himself to her. People usually did once she set her mind to getting under their skin—although she'd never wanted to get under anybody's skin the way she wanted to get under his.

He'd been hurt. His poor heart had been torn to shreds when he lost his sister—Sara, he'd called her. And there had been more than that. "Not just Sara, all of them. All of them." The catch in his voice when he'd said it had nearly brought her to tears. All of them. Sara and his parents. When, where? Did it matter? Not to Casey.

It didn't take a psychology degree to tell her that experience had shaped him into the man he was today. He'd loved and lost in what had to have been a horrible, heartbreaking and traumatic way. No wonder he didn't want to risk caring again.

Oh, hell. She had no choice now. She had to find out all about him. About his past, his life now, this old pain that was still eating away at him.

Casey was born a snoop. That trait was a good one, the way she saw it. It was one she'd parlayed into a successful career. Her other most prominent character trait was one that was a little less desirable. She tended toward nurturing. She'd never been one to bring home wounded birds and mend their wings. Instead she'd brought home troubled classmates. From day one she'd seen herself as the fixer of all life's problems. The protector of the weak, the champion of the frightened. If a boy was threatened by the town bully, she'd be the one to gather every kid in the class together and cajole them into walking the threatened kid home. And she'd make them keep doing it, too, until the bully backed down.

It was probably why she'd taken to Laura from the start. The sense that her new little sister needed protecting. Maybe it was a character flaw. Maybe it made her feel stronger and more powerful if she could fix other people's lives for them. Or maybe it kept her from focusing on her own life and all the things it lacked. She wasn't sure.

She only knew that while she'd been attracted—powerfully attracted—to Marcus before, now she was obsessed. She wanted to know everything about him.

She wanted him to open up to her, to trust her, to let her in so she could wield her magic wand and heal him.

Unless … unless he didn't want to be healed.

Oh hell, that was just silly. Of course he wanted to be healed. No one wanted to go around hurting all the time.

Once again, Casey spent her lunch hour digging into the past of the most secretive man she'd ever met. The most secretive person she'd ever met.

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