The Lawman by Patricia Potter

Author:Patricia Potter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

9

JARED YANKED at the chain binding him to the bed.

It had been an hour or so since Sam left. The door was heavy, too heavy to hear any conversations outside. The book lay beside him unopened.

He tried to shift himself up in the bed to get better leverage, but his leg still hurt like the devil, and even that small effort drained him.

Another part of his anatomy hurt, as well, and that particularly galled him.

He managed to get to a sitting position at last. He probably could have done so earlier, but he’d wanted Sam and the old man to believe him more helpless than he was. He wanted her to come close to him. He’d even been considering seducing her to find MacDonald’s whereabouts.

What he hadn’t expected was to become entrapped in his own scheme. He was beginning to care far too much. He waited impatiently every hour for her to come into the room so he could see the appealing vulnerability she tried to hide behind a tough veneer. He wanted to watch her cheeks flush when he touched her, by accident or on purpose. And most of all to feel her lips on his.

He hadn’t expected to grow so hard, and she’d felt that hardness, all right. He’d seen the turmoil, then wonder, in those golden eyes as she’d instinctively responded.

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