Warning Shot by Jenna Kernan

Author:Jenna Kernan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-08-12T15:48:42+00:00

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AXEL WOKE IN the gray predawn light, lying on his back with Rylee beside him. She slept on her side, pressed between the leather back of the couch and his body. One arm lay on his chest, with her palm pressed flat over his heart. Her cheek rested on his shoulder and her mouth was open as she gave a soft snore with each intake of breath. Her top leg was coiled about one of his, so that her foot and ankle threaded beneath his opposite calf.

She’d asked him if he’d ever leave the county. Nothing had tempted him so much as her question. The tug to be with her was new, like some invisible cord drawing him to her.

Then there was his father and his promise to see Axel suffer for daring to leave the fold. He knew exactly how his father might do that; he could call his followers together and, at his word, they would all return to their rooms and take their lives. That included the children, his siblings, who had stayed and the mother he could not even name. She was there among the other women, one of them. He’d tried shutting them down and failed. He didn’t have the authority. His father knew that and seemed to bask in Axel’s powerlessness.

Rylee’s skin was covered in gooseflesh. The fire had burned out and the air in the room held the chill that told him the forecasted cold front had arrived. His arm was under her and his fingers splayed over one perfect orb of her ass. He resisted the urge to squeeze. Instead, he lifted his opposite hand and dragged the fleece blanket from the back of the chair, covering their naked bodies. Rylee hummed her satisfaction and then nestled closer.

One eye opened and she peered up at him.

“Hello, gorgeous,” he whispered and brushed a strand of blond hair from her cheek, tucking it behind the shell of her ear.

“I’ve got to pee.” She pushed up and groaned. “Freezing in here.”

“Take the blanket,” he said.

In a moment, he had the fleece around her shoulders.

“What about you?” she asked.

“Heading to my bed. Care to join me?”

“Sounds reasonable.” She grinned and then went down the hall toward the guest bathroom as he headed to the master.

They reconvened in his king-size bed, where she dropped the fleece in favor of the down comforter and flannel sheets and him.

“Oh, the sheets are cold,” she said, shivering.

“Not for long,” he promised.

When they finally stopped warming the sheets and each other, the bedding was tangled about his waist, two of the pillows were somewhere on the floor and they were both panting. He gathered her in, their moist skin sticking them together like Post-its. He smiled, tucking her head under his chin as he embraced her.

He had known they’d be good together, but Rylee in the flesh was so much better than anything he could ever have imagined. She was bold and more uninhibited than he would have guessed. In her professional life, Rylee was exacting, demanding and a pain in his butt.

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