The Scoundrel's Bride by Geralyn Dawson

Author:Geralyn Dawson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780373770724
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2005-12-01T22:00:00+00:00

A STORM had been brewing all afternoon, only this tempest had nothing to do with the weather outside the cabin. Zach was reminded of the day years earlier when he’d been working on a small central Texas farm. An hour before the vicious, twisting cloud had appeared in the sky a curious tension had filled the air. The birds quit singing, the horses went skittish, and the hair on the back of Zach’s neck stood up. He’d thought at first it was Indians. He and the fellow helping him plow a cotton field had made a beeline for the meager shelter of a nearby outcropping of rock.

The trouble, when it came, made a Comanche raid look like Sunday-morning church service.

Zach had never seen such natural violence as the churning, air-sucking cloud that roared overhead and destroyed the sturdy stone farmhouse, the barn, henhouse, and storage sheds faster than the blink of an eye.

Now today, the air inside his cabin vibrated with another sort of natural tension. A violent force in its own right.

Neither he nor Morality had much to say. She was acting jumpy as a basketful of frogs, and his neck hairs were standing at attention. As was another part of his body. Which was the problem. Zach had pretty much been on point ever since that kiss out in the barn. Judging by the blush that reddened Morality’s skin every time their gazes chanced to meet, she hadn’t been exactly unaffected herself.

She’d talked a blue streak once they headed back inside, relaying bits and pieces of anecdotes about her life on the healer circuit. Yet, the entire time her mouth yammered on, her eyes and expression revealed the fact that her mind wandered elsewhere.

Morality was obviously nervous and apprehensive. Perhaps a little bit frightened. She was also clearly filled to the brim with excitement over the pending change in her life.

Zach was brimming with something a bit more earthy.

Morality Brown lured him with her innocence. She enticed him with her smile. She beguiled him with her beauty and tempted him with her wit. She was Morality in her heart, but Delilah everywhere else.

From his position in front of the fire, Zach gazed across the room to his bed, where Morality sat, needle and thread in hand, repairing ripped stitches in his mother’s quilt. Her braid fell over one shoulder, and his fingers itched to pull out the plaits, to lay her back and fan that silken fire across his pillow.

Abruptly, Zach moved away from the hearth. More heat was exactly what he didn’t need. Morality glanced up at him and smiled so sweetly Zach nearly groaned aloud.

Well, hell. There she was on his bed. His beautiful betrothed. His alluring angel. There was but one way to solve this problem.

“C’mere, Morality,” he said, walking to stand before the worktable. “I’m gonna teach you to make chili.”

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