[Kate's Boys 05] - A Lawman for Christmas by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: fra
Format: epub
Publisher: SSE #2006
Published: 2009-10-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“M aybe I’d better go,” Morgan heard himself saying eons later when he finally forced himself to end the kiss that geometrically grew in intensity with every moment that passed by.

Had they been alone…

But they hadn’t been alone and that was a very good thing. Otherwise, mistakes would have been made. More mistakes, he silently corrected, because this shouldn’t have happened, either. Despite the fact that the kiss had rattled him down to his very toes, it had opened a door that should have remained closed if he was to have any peace.

Okay, what was going on here? Kelsey silently demanded. Why did she feel like some schoolgirl who’d just been introduced to her first grown-up kiss? She wasn’t exactly a novice at this kind of thing, and the fact that she hadn’t been dating recently had been of her own choosing, not because no one was asking. But goodness, she couldn’t recall anyone ever stirring up her soul like that. No one had ever completely sapped away her breath or made her pulse race in the same way.

Stunned, trying to focus on a world that had suddenly gone utterly out of focus, she nodded in response to Morgan’s announcement that he should be leaving.

“You’ll call me?” she asked, her voice low and husky. “About my mother’s car, you’ll call me?” she clarified after a beat, realizing that, left standing alone, her original question sounded as if she wanted him to call her for a date.

“The minute it’s done,” he promised.

It was difficult to sound distant when his breath kept cutting out on him. He hadn’t been close to winded when he chased down a perp last week. So why would he be so breathless from kissing Kelsey?

Morgan cleared his throat. “Tell your mother thanks for dinner. Your father, too,”

he added as an afterthought. “It was…nice.” Nice was a paltry word, but right now he didn’t trust his voice to say anything lengthier.

“You can tell them yourself,” she suggested, gesturing toward the dining room. Judging from the noise, she’d guess that the table was still being cleared away. But Morgan already had the door open, eager to make his getaway. “Gotta go.”

The next second, he was gone.

Amusement curved her mouth as Kelsey stood staring at the closed door. Had she just frightened off the big, strong, strapping policeman? Certainly looked that way. Makes two of us, Donnelly.

Travis looked in, glancing around the room. “Where’s Morgan?”

“Gone,” she told him simply, then turned around to face her brother. “He went home.”

The news surprised him. “God, Kelsey, what did you do to the man?” Travis asked. He jerked his thumb behind him. “He didn’t even come back into the dining room to get his jacket.”

“I didn’t do anything to him,” she informed Travis, breezing passed him. “He kissed me.”

“Well, that explains it,” Travis commented. “You can be pretty scary when your lips are moving.”

She didn’t bother answering her brother. Instead, she walked into the dining room.

Morgan’s jacket was hanging on the back of the chair just where he’d left it.

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