Intimate Surrender by Raeanne Thayne

Author:Raeanne Thayne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780373363544
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-08-01T14:47:45.312000+00:00

Seven

The storm broke a few hours before dawn.

Though Katie should have been sleeping, oblivious to any change in weather at that ungodly hour, she had been lying awake in bed, the quilt snug around her chin as she gazed at the dying flames' sinuous dance and replayed their kiss.

She couldn't figure out why Peter had done it. He had seemed genuinely shocked when she accused him of merely trying to pass the time, kissing her out of boredom and restlessness.

But what other reason could there be?

He didn't like her and certainly didn't trust her. He had made that abundantly clear since he arrived at Sweetwater. He thought she had slept with him only to learn Logan Corporation secrets. So why kiss her until her bones melted? Until she was moaning and panting and closer than she cared to remember to begging for more?

She knew how dangerous it was to kiss him. Between her pregnancy and the trauma of seeing him again, her emotions were fragile, weak. She didn't like feeling vulnerable and exposed. She needed time and space to build her defenses against him but she'd had neither since his arrival.

Had it only been a day and a half? She couldn't believe it. Time seemed to stretch and thin. She felt as if she'd lived a lifetime in those thirty-six hours. Maybe because they had been together almost constantly since he swept into Sweetwater.

Even after that kiss, when she had wanted desperately to retreat to her room and hide away, she had forced herself to remain either in the kitchen or the great room.

After the dinner she had put together—well, the lasagna she had pulled out of the freezer and baked according to Margie's directions—she had even gone so far as to play a game with him. Monopoly. No big surprise, he won. She wasn't any better at empire building, she decided, than she was at forgetting how she had wanted to let him hold her forever.

Why had he kissed her? She had been up most of the night trying to figure it out but had come no closer to a solution when she suddenly registered a strange silence. It took her a moment to realize the mournful keening of the wind had stopped at last, leaving behind an unearthly quiet. She slipped from the bed and padded to the window.

The clouds had finally shifted and moonlight gleamed on the tiny fluttery snowflakes drifting slowly down. She found it hard to believe that the violence and rage of the storm could blow itself out and leave this tranquil scene, everything white-blue and still.

She watched it for a long time, trying to absorb some of that calm into her own psyche.

With the storm dying out, she knew Peter wouldn't be at Sweetwater much longer. It would probably take another day or so for the roads to be cleared and then he would be able to fly back to Portland.

She should be relieved, especially with the unbearable tension of the last evening after their kiss.

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