The Cowboy and the Princess by Lori Wilde

Author:Lori Wilde [Wilde, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Azizex666, Romance, Contemporary, Western
ISBN: 9780062047786
Google: fmgwbXbH87UC
Amazon: 0062047779
Barnesnoble: 0062047779
Goodreads: 12929908
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2012-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

You might be a princess if . . . you’ve never had to work for a living.

Annie tensed beside him, faltered in her step.

“Buttercup?” Brady asked.

She did not answer. Brady followed her gaze.

The Blues Brothers.

They’d tracked her here. He didn’t know how or why or who. He only knew Annie was trembling.

Instinctively, he tucked her closer to his side. Brady did not understand his impulse. She could have been on the lam from the law. In their suits and Ray-Bans, these guys could surely be FBI. But right or wrong didn’t even factor into it. She was threatened and he was going to take up for her.

End of story.

“Easy, Annie,” he murmured. “I’ve got your back. They’ll have to go through me to get to you.”

“It is not . . . I am not . . .” She wrapped an arm around his waist and said no more.

The Blues Brothers were combing the edges of the crowd. Smoothly, Brady put a hand to Annie’s back and guided her toward a side exit away from the two men. He could feel the snaps of her bra through the thin cotton of her shirt, felt her lungs expand and contract in quick, shallow breaths. He used his body to camouflage her from view in case the men in the fedoras happened to glance his way.

“We gave ’em the slip,” he said, stopping a moment to watch the Blues Brothers move in the opposite direction until they were swallowed up in the crowd.

Annie shifted nervously. “Let us depart before they return.”

“We have to find Joe and Mariah.”

She hitched in a deep breath. Brady peered at her in the light from the Ferris wheel circling on the other side of the chain-link fence. Damn, but she was so beautiful. Just looking at her made it hard for him to think. Her long eyelashes fluttered like a delicate butterfly flitting over a vibrant trumpet vine. He pictured himself holding her in the crook of his arm, depositing kisses on her eyelids, feeling those lashes flicker against his lips. She stirred every lustful impulse in his body and drove him crazy with desire.

“C’mon,” he said, escorting her over the asphalt, away from the festivities and toward the other end of the coliseum where they’d parked.

His cell phone rang. He answered it one-handedly, knowing it was Joe. “We’re already in the parking lot.”

“We’ll be right there,” Joe said, then hung up.

Brady pocketed his cell.

“I feel so lawless.” Annie planted a palm on her chest and Brady couldn’t help checking the placement. Right over one magnificent breast.

“Why’s that? Does the law want you? Are those guys G-men?”

“G-men?”

“FBI.”

“No, oh no.”

Damn him, he wanted so much to believe her. “So why the lawlessness?”

“Because being with you makes me feel . . .” Her cheeks pinked. “As if I’m breaking all the rules.”

“What rules?” He laughed, feeling uncertain.

Annie shrugged, sliced a stunningly sexy look his way. “There is just something about you, Brady Talmadge, that makes my blood sing.”

That should have scared him.

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