To Love & Protect Her by Margaret Watson

Author:Margaret Watson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Romance & Sagas, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780733520907
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon
Published: 2002-10-15T00:24:48.250000+00:00

Willa woke up slowly, floating on a sea of pleasurable sensations. She was dreaming about Griff. His scent surrounded her, and his heart beat strong and steady against her cheek. She didn’t want to open her eyes, afraid that the fantasy would burst like a bubble in the air.

Then her pillow moved, and she opened her eyes with a start. She was sprawled on top of Griff, her arms around his neck and her legs intimately tangled with his. Her head was pillowed against his chest, and the thin T-shirt he wore was no barrier against the heat that poured from his body.

In that first instant of realization, all she wanted to do was savor his closeness. She wanted to snuggle closer to him, to allow herself to sink into him. She didn’t want to think about why he was sleeping next to her. She only wanted to enjoy it.

But Griff had seemed so determined to avoid getting involved with her. What had happened the night before? Something had, or he wouldn’t have ended up next to her. But she suspected he wouldn’t be happy about this, either.

So she shifted her legs slowly, trying to ease away from him before he woke up. She didn’t want to make him uncomfortable—and the attraction that simmered between them definitely made him uncomfortable.

As she eased her leg from between his legs, she brushed against him and froze. Part of him was definitely awake. Slowly she looked up and found him watching her.

“Good morning,” he said, his voice raspy with sleep.

“Good morning to you, too.” She tried to make her voice light and careless, and was afraid she’d failed miserably.

“You had a nightmare last night,” he said, his hands tightening on her as she tried to pull away. “I couldn’t wake you up, so I decided to stay with you until you fell back to sleep. I guess I fell asleep, too.”

“Thanks.” She gave him a casual smile, and tried to pull away again.

“Anytime.” His voice deepened, and his arms shifted around her, pulling her more snugly against him. “Do you remember what it was about?”

She shook her head. “No,” she whispered. His hand was drifting slowly down her back, then brushing over her hip, and she was having a hard time speaking. “I don’t remember.”

“Do you have nightmares often?”

“I don’t think so.”

“It must be the kidnapping attempt.”

“Hmm?” He’d burrowed his other hand beneath her cardigan and splayed his fingers against her side. Heat pulsed into her, spreading like liquid fire.

“I didn’t mean to stay here for the rest of the night.”

“It’s all right,” she managed to say. “I appreciate it.”

“Do you?”

He nuzzled against her neck, and the stubble from his beard rasped against her skin. She shivered once, helplessly, as desire burst into life inside her.

“I know you were just being kind,” she gasped.

“Kind?” His mouth drifted down her throat and his tongue dipped into the hollow above her collarbone. “I’m not kind, Willa.”

“You’ve been very kind to me.”

He raised his head and looked at her.

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