One Texas Night... by Sara Orwig

Author:Sara Orwig
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

She found him downstairs in the enormous kitchen. Music played, a blues number that was background music but made her think about dancing. Enticing smells filled the room. The table was set in the breakfast area, and he had glasses of red wine poured and ready.

Jared stood with his back to her, and her gaze drifted slowly over his broad shoulders, covered in a plaid woolen Western shirt, down past his tight, slim jeans, all the way to his boot-clad feet. Drawing a deep breath, she fought an urge to walk up behind him, press against him and wrap her arms around him.

Instead she sedately entered the kitchen and kept a wide space between them. “Hi,” she said quietly. “Good music. May I help you?”

He turned, his gaze flicking over her. Putting down a knife and an apple, he rinsed and dried his hands. “Just peeling an apple. The music is a motley assortment.” He closed the distance between them to place his hands on her waist. “You’re definitely the most delicious thing in this room,” he said in a deep voice.

She inhaled and thrust her hands into her pockets so she didn’t reach for him. “Thank you, I think. I’m sure I can do something here.”

“Oh, you can do a lot of things,” he drawled. “The first on the list—”

“Not that sort of thing, Jared. I’m sure I can help get dinner,” she interrupted swiftly, unable to keep from smiling at him.

“It’s impossible to avoid me, us. Let go, Allison. You’re fighting yourself more than you’re fighting me,” he whispered, gazing intently at her.

“Shall I pour water for dinner?”

He held her with a gaze that grew more intense. Her heart drummed because she thought he would kiss her. Instead he walked away to pick up two glasses of red wine. “Let’s have our drink first.” He held one out to her, and her fingers brushed his as she accepted it.

“We can sit where we have a view,” he said, motioning toward the adjoining sitting area.

She went ahead of him. A fire crackled in the fireplace, the orange flames dancing high while the setting sun glistened off the snowy mountain peaks. “This night will be difficult to forget,” she said, thinking about the scenery and the fire, but mostly about Jared. The slight contact was a magnet pulling on her senses. All his casual touches were constant reminders of the excitement, the fabulous sex they could have together.

“I won’t forget it, and I hope you don’t. Not any of the hours we’ve spent together.”

She smiled at him. “When we part, we’ll both start forgetting.”

“Have you forgotten the night we met?”

“I’ll take the Fifth on that one.”

“That’s an answer. A big answer and a satisfying one. Neither have I.”

Truthfully she remembered every minute, every second of that night. Just the mention of it had her heartbeat racing, her mouth drying. She’d give anything to experience another night like that. But she couldn’t.

Because this was a dangerous conversation, she tried diverting it with a question.

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