Reckless Fortune by M. M. Crane

Author:M. M. Crane [Crane, M. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2022-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Well,” Autumn said a moment later, when there’d been nothing but silence. And what looked like all kinds of complications on Bowie’s face to match it, not that she was parsing. Her sisters always made it clear that no one liked parsing. “This is awkward.” But she smiled at him because the truth was, she didn’t feel awkward. She felt amazing. “I had no idea that you were so opposed to camping. I hate to break it to you, but that seriously dents your Alaskan off-grid street cred.”

For a moment she thought he wouldn’t laugh, or that maybe he was planning to fight it off, but then he gave in and let one out. Maybe it was a rueful sort of laugh, but she’d take it. It was better than the way he’d stared at her. As if he was about to do a little bit of that heartbreaking she knew was coming.

Knowing it was coming didn’t mean she wanted it to come now.

But instead he laughed and then he turned her over, still laughing, as he moved with her so he could prop himself above her. Beautifully, gloriously Bowie. And better still, he slid himself between her legs.

Where she was ready for him. Again. Always.

She’d had no idea that it was possible to be so . . . voracious. Even if she’d known that people out there could be, she would have found the notion that she was one of them hilarious. Before last night.

Autumn was fairly certain her whole life would now be divided into before a midsummer night in Alaska and after. She had already accepted that. But this was the first moment of after and she didn’t have the slightest idea how to handle it. When she’d always known how, exactly, to handle everything. All her life.

“I love camping,” Bowie told her, as if he was outraged at such an attack. But not too outraged. Because his eyes were gleaming again, in that way she knew now was pure entertainment. “I don’t know what it’s like down there in your soft, manageable Montana valley of peaches and honey and whatever else—”

“Yes. So manageable. We’re known for that. That’s why we have snow ten months of the year, temperatures that make people in warmer climates cry, and a whole lot of ornery grizzlies. Only some of them bears.”

If Bowie got her little Montana State reference he chose to ignore it.

“Up here, everyday life is a lot like camping. You don’t need to make such a big deal out of it.”

“I bet you’ve always been this kind of guy, haven’t you?” she asked, though she had to stop and suck in a delighted little breath as he moved, rubbing his length through her slickness. Using her own softness against her. “No matter the situation, you’re sure a big deal is being made of it and you, by God, need everyone to know that you won’t stand for it. You will remain detached at all costs.”

She was a little breathless when she finished, and only partly because of the way he was moving against her.

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