The Burnett Brides Boxed Set by Sylvia McDaniel

Author:Sylvia McDaniel [McDaniel, Sylvia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sylvia McDaniel

Later that same morning, Tanner almost ran over Beth in the hallway outside her room. She was just coming out of her bedroom, her hair neatly in place. A dress, the golden brown of burnished autumn, brought out the color in her cheeks and made her hair glisten. God, he wanted to take her right here in his mother’s house.

He glanced down the empty hall and grabbed Beth by the arm. She tensed and resisted him, but he managed to push her back into her room.

“What are you doing?” she hissed between clenched teeth.

Beth’s room was across the hall and down two doors from Rose and Travis’s room, but they were out riding this morning, and his mother was in the office taking care of business. They were upstairs alone.

“I’d like a word with you,” he said, firmly shutting the door behind him and blocking any escape route.

“Are you crazy? If your mother or brother were to find us, we’d arouse suspicion. Get out, now!”

“Not until I’ve asked a few questions.”

“Like what?” she said, jerking loose of his hold.

He stepped to within inches of her. “Like why in the hell you never told me that my brother was the man you were going to marry?”

“I would have loved to have shared that information with you, but Tanner and Tucker? How was I to know you were related,” she said, sarcasm dripping from her words. “And you never asked for the name of the man who was going to marry me, remember.”

“He’s my brother, damn it!” Tanner said, his voice louder than he’d intended.

“Shh!” she said right back at him, her face inches from his. “How was I to know? The better question would be why weren’t you honest with me? Why didn't you give me your full name?”

“I didn’t think it was information you needed.”

“I’d say you were wrong.” She took a deep breath, her chest rising with indignation. “If you had used Burnett just once, I would have known. Instead, I was as surprised as you!”

He wanted to reach out, smooth back her hair, touch her, taste her full lips until she was begging him to take her, but she belonged to his brother now, not him. She was strictly off limits.

He grabbed her by the arm, bringing her close to him. “My brother can never know what happened between us. You’re going to marry him, just like before.”

Her hazel-green eyes turned to emerald stones that glittered as cold as ice. “Why would I tell him? You’ve made it clear that our one night was a mistake. So why would I give up marrying the man I originally planned to for you?” She pushed him away. “Don’t worry about me; I’m a survivor. No matter what, I’ll be fine.”

Tanner ran his hand through his hair, wanting to clear his thinking. He hadn’t been honest with her. He hadn’t told her his last name. He had made it clear that their night of passion was just that, a night, not a lifetime.

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