The Cowboy's Bride by Cathy Gillen Thacker

Author:Cathy Gillen Thacker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-06-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Cody had dreamed of having her in his bed, in his life again. Sometimes, some long, lonely nights, it seemed that was all he ever dreamed. But nothing could have prepared him for the softness of her surrendering body against his, the sweet give of her lips, the flinch of pain. The knowledge he was the first to make love to her — that she had waited all this time for him as he had waited for her — lit fire to his own aching, overwhelming need. In slow, purposeful consummation, he had let her know with every touch, every kiss, every stroke that she was his, and only his.

But he had thought—hoped—he was over Callie by now. Considering all that had passed between them, he certainly should have been.

His feelings in turmoil, his body still humming with the aftereffects of their lovemaking, Cody levered himself away from her. He rolled onto his back, staring at the ceiling above his bed. When she had duped him and run away, he had sworn to wreak his revenge on her if he ever caught up with her again. And now... Cody groaned and passed a hand over his eyes.

“Cody? What is it?” Callie asked in a voice that quavered slightly.

Cody ran a hand over his jaw. The smooth skin that had lain beneath his beard felt as unfamiliar to him as having Callie in his bed.

He rolled onto his side and propped himself up on one elbow. “Ah, Callie...” Damn, he wished she wasn’t so beautiful. That her hair was not so soft and clean and touchable, or cut in such a sexy, tousled way. If she kept looking at him like that with those wide green eyes full of shimmering wonder and desire, that trembling lower lip that just begged to be kissed again, he was going to be a goner. Unless, of course, Cody thought as he reined himself in hard, he worked swiftly to inject some distance between them again. And if there was one thing he knew, Cody thought, beginning to get himself back on track again, it was how to push people away.

Cody sat up lazily. “We finally consummated our marriage.”

Callie tugged the sheet up to cover her breasts. “Is that the way you see it?”

Cody tore his eyes from the soft curves of her breasts and shrugged. “I don’t know what else to call it.” He let his eyes move over her. “Except maybe satisfying our curiosity about what it would be like to be with each other in the most intimate way possible.”

Callie’s eyes flashed fire. “Well, now we know for sure that we’re all wrong for each other, don’t we?” she snapped.

This was the Callie he knew, her temper in full flame. “I guess we do at that,” Cody drawled, tossing off the sheet. Naked, he reached for his clothes, while Callie wrapped herself toga-style in the sheet.

“So we won’t have to be doing this again,” she vowed.

Cody tugged on a clean pair of socks.

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