Zakia & The Cowboy by Lorraine Nelson

Author:Lorraine Nelson [Nelson, Lorraine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2011-10-05T16:30:37.063000+00:00

Chapter Ten

The sun brought him wide-awake as it crept slowly into the sky, shining brightly across the bed where they lay entwined. A new day had begun.

“Morning, Zia,” Luke whispered, nuzzling her neck from behind and running his hand along the smooth, silken expanse of her torso and back up again to reach around and cup her breast. “I could get used to waking up to this every morning.”

“Mmm,” she responded, stretching like a cat and beginning to purr.

“Think we have time before the boys wake up?”

“I definitely think we should give it a try,” she giggled as his erection prodded her from behind.

In the next instant he rolled her over and kissed her, a loving, passionate kiss, then mounted up, ready to ride. What followed was fast and furious and reaffirmed they were still alive as they came together with the morning sun gilding their bodies, turning everything it touched to gold.

“Let’s hit the shower before we run out of time,” Luke suggested, just before a light knock sounded on the bedroom door.

“Luke, you awake?” came the soft-voiced question.

“Yeah. What’s up?” he asked as he climbed out of bed, stood stark naked in all his glory, then bent to retrieve his jeans from the day before.

“The forensics team is here. I thought you should handle it as I’m supposed to be incognito.”

“Fair enough. I’ll be right down.” He playfully slapped Zakia’s butt as she bent over to retrieve her nightgown from the floor where it had landed in their haste for fulfillment the night before. “No time for a shower now but I’ll catch up with you later.”

“Sooner. That’s my truck out there and I want to see for myself what that bastard’s been up to.”

“Zakia, let me handle this for you, okay? The boys will be up soon and they’ll need you.”

He saw her hesitate, mulling it over uncertainly.

“Promise you won’t keep anything from me?”

“I promise.” He kissed her tenderly and finished getting dressed, ready to face the day. Kissing her one last time, he took up his rifle and left the room.

* * * *

Zakia slipped her nightgown over her head and returned to shower in her own room. She’d just wrapped her toweling robe around her and gone back into the bedroom to dress, when she heard a commotion in the yard. Crossing to the window, she saw an abundance of trucks and horse trailers as the ranch hands arrived to get ready for the Thunder Creek round up.

She thought some of them looked familiar, but in the end, only one cowboy stood out as memorable in the crowd below… Luke. Rugged and windblown, taller and broader than most of the wranglers, confidence easily apparent in his stance and more handsome than a man had any right to be, she couldn’t take her eyes off him as he welcomed everybody to the ranch. Zakia witnessed his enthusiasm as he became caught up in the excitement of the impending cattle drive.

“Mommy, are you awake?” came the question as a knock sounded on her bedroom door.

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