The Deputy's Redemption by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Colt rolled over, the pain shooting through his shoulder and back, and he groaned out loud before he could stop himself. The groan immediately grabbed Elise’s attention because she jackknifed to a sitting position. Her breath already gusting. Her eyes wide with concern.

And she looked down at him from the small twin bed. It was really more like a glorified cot in the break room at the sheriff’s office.

“You’re in pain,” she said.

“Just not used to sleeping on the floor,” Colt assured her. And a hard tile floor at that.

He worked his way out of the sleeping bag and would have gotten to his feet. If his feet hadn’t both been asleep, that is. He had no choice but to drop onto the bed next to her.

The very place he’d been trying hard to avoid for the past eight hours.

Now, here he was. In bed, literally, with Elise. And despite the lack of sleep and mussed hair, she managed to look way past the hot stage. Of course, she always managed to look hot, so that was nothing new.

“I’m moving,” he insisted.

But she took hold of his arm and scooted over so that she was pressed right against the wall. “We can control ourselves for at least a minute or two while you get the feeling back in your feet.”

Colt tried to smile, failed. Because being this close to her was a special form of torture. “After the dream I had about you, I shouldn’t be within a mile of you,” he mumbled.

“I hope it was sexual.” Her eyes widened again when he looked at her. “I mean better sexual than your wanting to wring my neck.”

He leaned in, risked brushing a kiss on her cheek. “There are a lot of things I want to do to you, but wringing your neck’s not on the list. Kissing it sounds like a good way to start the morning, though.”

And a bad one, too. Because he hadn’t been kidding about that dream. It had been a scorcher. Him and Elise butt naked, not on some tiny bed or floor, either. His bed. And they’d done things that he’d been thinking about doing with her for days.

Like kissing her.

Tasting every inch of her.

Sinking hard and deep into her.

Then, kissing her again.

So, that’s exactly what he did. He kissed her, knowing that it was a dumber-than-dirt kind of thing to do. Despite the pain and numb feet, every other part of him was humming and aching for her.

“Bad idea?” she questioned, his mouth hovering over hers.

“Oh, yeah. The worst idea.”

Somehow, that made the kiss even better. He’d never been into the whole forbidden-fruit fantasy, but in Elise’s case, he’d make an exception. So, he upped the worst idea into a full-blown kiss. But he didn’t go after her mouth this time. He went after her neck again so he could finish what he’d started.

Well, finish a little part of it, anyway.

He could do something about tasting her.

Oh, man. She was just as good as he’d imagined she would be.

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