Wild Cowboy by Gemma Snow

Author:Gemma Snow [Snow, Gemma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group
Published: 2022-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Reece was quiet as they walked down the mountain path and back toward his small cabin on the far side of the lodge, and Morgan didn’t know how to break the tension in the air between them. Because there was tension in the air, and it had everything to do with the fact that he blamed himself for putting her into danger. Finally, as they neared the door to the cabin, she just came out and said it.

“It was my choice to come with you.” She stopped before him on the path, so he had to look her in the eye. Or, at very least, the shoulder. “I practically forced you to let me tag along this grand adventure. There was no possible way you could have known that some greedy congressman was scheming to make money by any means necessary or that we might end up in actual danger.”

He caught her eye and she knew that her words weren’t getting through.

“How many times have you been shot, Reece?” she asked.

“I’ve been shot at a few times,” he said finally, stepping past her to open the door to the cabin. “But I’ve only had to get medical service for an injury from a bullet once.”

“And of all the jobs and assignments you’ve gone on,” she said, “would you agree that the odds were very much in our favor of not getting shot?”

She stepped through the door behind him, coming up short when she saw he was stripping out of his shirt. Because even angry—and growing angrier by the moment—Reece really was a sight to be behold when he took his clothes off.

“They were,” he agreed.

“So how are you going to throw yourself in front of this guilt train when you couldn’t possibly have known how dangerous this assignment was going to be?” she asked. “Reece, I’ve eaten poison pufferfish and gone swimming with sharks and traveled solo across half of the United States, and I wanted to go with you. That’s the end of it.”

“It’s not.” His voice was very, very tight.

“Why not?”

In the next second, Reece was halfway across the room and boxing her in against the far wall of the cabin. His bare chest pressed against her own skin, and God, she wanted to taste him, to pull him down and kiss the anger off his lips and—

“Because it’s my job to protect you,” he said, not giving her a second to counter that ridiculous statement, “because you’re different, Morgan. To me, you’re different.”

Then it was Reece who claimed her mouth. The kiss wasn’t sweet and it wasn’t soft. It was a brutal demand, as if they each had to prove to themselves that the other was there, right there with them and alive and whole, and she didn’t want to waste a second of touching him, not when he spoke such claiming, dangerous words, not when he made her want to commit to him in the same way he seemed so hellbent on committing to her.

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