McKettrick's Choice by Linda Lael Miller

Author:Linda Lael Miller
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781426875717
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2005-11-07T23:00:00+00:00

Lorelei sighed. “It was easy enough, I guess. There was a bathtub, and plenty of hot water. We never ate beans, or slept on the ground or had to worry about leeches. But I never really felt anything. It was as though I was walking in my sleep.”

Melina shook her head, smiling a little in the diffused moonlight, which fell through the floorboards of the wagon bed in silvery streaks. “You are an odd woman, Lorelei Fellows,” she said. “I never knew anybody who took to hardship the way you do. It’s as if you like trouble.”

“I don’t,” Lorelei said quietly. “But I do like feeling alive.”

“You must like fighting with Holt, too, because you sure do a lot of it.”

Lorelei considered that. Creighton had largely ignored her, underscoring the sense of invisibility that had plagued her from childhood. Michael, sweet, affable Michael, had always agreed with her, as though he thought she’d shatter if he didn’t. Holt, on the other hand, seemed to relish a challenge as much as she did. And every time he pushed her, she grew a little, just by taking her own part.

“He is the most obnoxious man I have ever met,” she said.

“Then how come you’re smiling?”

“Hush up, Melina, and go to sleep.”

Melina giggled.

Lorelei stifled a giggle of her own. “Go to sleep,” she repeated.

“One of these days, Lorelei, Holt’s going to want to make love to you. And I bet you’ll let him.”

The idea caused an expansive, melting sensation in the most private part of Lorelei’s body. “Melina!”

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