The Texas Ranger's Daughter by Jenna Kernan

Author:Jenna Kernan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Western, Historical, Fiction
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Boon’s insides stung as if they were cut from swallowed glass. He’d never felt like this—worried, protective, helpless. But Laurie was talking crazy. He knew what would happen if he kissed her again.

Did she?

She lifted her pointed chin, staring up at him, her eyes dark as the far side of the moon. Something inside him flipped and tightened. He wanted to hold this woman to his heart forever.

He saw his need reflected back to him in her dark eyes. This was not the look he’d expected. He’d thought to find her in need of comfort. But this was not the kind of comfort he’d thought she’d need. One look told him he’d been mistaken. Laurie had transformed herself into a woman of a certain mind. Her stare was direct, bold, her lips parted and her eyelids half-hooded. This was a woman demanding to be kissed.

He didn’t believe it. But his body reacted, his pulse galloping along like an eight-horse team. He battled for control of his impulses, even as he felt himself surging like a runaway horse.

“Laurie?”

“Boon, if what you say is true then you’ll kiss me. I want you to touch me again. I want to feel that again, but this time I want to touch you, too.”

He drew a breath at the image her words conjured. Now he wasn’t on horseback. Now he could easily take her. He’d planned their first encounter but the pull between them had been so strong that he was dead sure he would have taken her if he could have. Now she wanted him again and he’d have to give her what she needed and keep from taking what he wanted.

“Not a good idea, Laurie. I want you too much. I could, I might…” Words failed him. If he spoke, if he mentioned an unwanted pregnancy, she might change her mind. Lord, please don’t let her change her mind.

He was a hypocrite. Hadn’t he just told her he would never take a woman without wedding her first? But Laurie didn’t want a husband, or, at least, she did not want a husband like him.

But she did want his body and she wanted the proof of his words—that even knowing what she’d done he still found her desirable.

She bit her lower lip and seeing her white teeth draw across the full, plump flesh drove him to madness. His breathing came fast, as if he ran and needed the extra air, yet he lay still as a river rock.

He couldn’t do this.

If he cared about her, he’d see she got what she wanted, a husband she could be proud of. Her father had left him in charge of his only daughter. He had to bring her home safe.

Laurie lifted a hand to his chest and gripped his shirt in her fist, pleading with her eyes.

He hesitated. Her eyes went cold.

“I knew it,” she said, her hands slipping from him.

Boon seized her up in his arms, capturing her against him.

Desire flared in her eyes as she recognized she had won.

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