Manhunt in the Wild West by Jessica Andersen - Bear Claw Creek Crime Lab 04 - Manhunt in the Wild West

Author:Jessica Andersen - Bear Claw Creek Crime Lab 04 - Manhunt in the Wild West [Andersen, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780263882391
Google: i49MRAAACAAJ
Amazon: 026388239X
Goodreads: 9774924
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2007-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHELSEA HADN’T MEANT to lose it, had been trying not to, but the moment he touched her, the moment she leaned into his warm, solid bulk and felt his arms come around her, all bets were off.

She’d been trying to be brave when she wasn’t really. She was a wimp who’d gone into pathology because she couldn’t deal with life-or-death situations, a poser who read about adventures and imagined herself in them, but had avoided the offers of real-life adventure that’d come her way. She’d complained about her boring, normal life sometimes, but when she came right down to it, boring was better than dangerous.

“I don’t want this,” she said into Fax’s chest, her sobs giving way to shuddering breaths. “I thought I did, but I don’t. I want to wake up and realize this was all a dream. I want my old life back.”

He said nothing, simply held her, and his silence was as eloquent as a shout, one that said, There’s no going back.

She’d broken the law, broken her friends’ trust, and his. And al-Jihad wanted her dead.

“What do we do now?” she said, her voice cracking on the misery of it all.

“We rest,” he said, ever practical. “We’re safe enough here for the moment, and neither of us is at our best. So let’s rest for a few hours, and then we’ll see where we’re at.”

She nodded, but didn’t speak, and when he rose, it was the most natural thing in the world for her to rise with him, still tangled around him.

They moved into the main room together, and there was no discussion of the second bed. Instead, they lay down together, wrapped in one another, still fully clothed. He kicked off his shoes, then used his toes to shove hers off her feet. Pulling the hotel-issue coverlet over them both, he urged her into the hollow formed by the curve of his body, and his weight on the mattress. “Get some sleep. We’ll overthink the rest later.”

She’d slept so little the past three nights that it was easier to comply than to argue, and besides, she didn’t really want to argue. She might not want to be in the situation she was in, but that didn’t change the fact that she wanted to be near Fax. She wanted to touch him, taste him, curl up with him, be with him.

There would be no future with a man like him, but foolish though it might make her, she wanted whatever the present would allow. So she cuddled up against him and laid her sore cheek against his chest. They pressed together, fitting so perfectly it made her heart ache.

The contact warmed her when she’d been so cold for too long, made her feel safe when she knew she was vulnerable. She wanted to touch him, to run her hands along his body, but she knew he was right that they needed to rest, so she let herself sink into the warmth, knowing she would be cold again all too soon come morning.

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