Wanted_Zookeeper by Lynn Donovan

Author:Lynn Donovan [Donovan, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

#

Niles’s heart nearly leapt out of his chest when he saw Miss Myers standing directly in the path of the cheetah. The desperate cat smelled the fresh meat. She had flared her nostrils and stalked out of the livestock car sniffing vigorously. It had been over a month since the big cats had been fed such a delicacy as raw, fresh meat. Spotting Ryder, she jumped the hay wall, instead of following the path laid out, because of her delirium for the food. Then Miss Myers yelled, drawing the cat’s attention to her at the entrance to the warehouse.

Niles leapt into action. He screamed, “Ellen! Move!” He crawled on top of the bale wall and took aim with the tranquilizer rifle, but the cheetah had already pounced into the warehouse. Niles had lost sight of Miss Myers. He didn’t know if the cheetah had knocked her down, or if Ellen had jumped out of the way. She had no idea that cheetah are the fastest animals in the world. She could have been on top of Ellen in the blink of an eye. Ellen could be dead within the next blink. He jumped down from the wall, landing on his feet with a jarring bolt of pain in his sore leg. He shrieked, “Ellen. Oh Ellen!” As he ran to where he’d last seen her and slammed into her body against the hay bale that she’d managed to push into place, closing the cheetah inside his pen. Until Niles felt her small frame between him and the hay, he had no idea she was there. She was alive!

“Are you alright?” He knew he was yelling, but the fear for her life surged in his veins and he couldn’t slow his heart or lower his volume. Then his anger turned on her. He heard himself screaming at her. “That was the dumbest thing anybody ever did!”

Why was he screaming at her? All he wanted to do was take her into his arms and squeeze her so tight. Feel her life. Know she was all right. But instead, he was screaming at her like she was a child. A foolish child!

Without thinking, he grabbed her by the shoulders, spun her around. His intention was to look her over, confirm she was not harmed. But then his eyes met hers. He felt himself dive into the pools of desire that were the color of her eyes. He had almost lost her. Because of his ridiculous determination to redeem himself with his twin brother.

Niles had no idea, when the train crept into Silverpines, he would meet this woman. She was beyond his wildest expectations. And yet, there she was, chasing a pig… in a blizzard. And he’d almost lost her to one of the exotic animals he brought for bragging rights to his brother.

But she was not harmed. She didn’t have a single scratch on her. He pulled her against him. Relief swamped his heart. He hugged her so tight with a hundred different sensations: relief, fear, anger, frustration.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.