Sinful Attraction by Ann Christopher

Author:Ann Christopher [Christopher, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2013-09-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Several hours later, the bonfire was in full swing, with logs piled into a flaming tepee-shaped structure that felt hot enough to melt the nearest glacier and yet was not, oddly enough, hot enough to protect Marcus from the biting chill of a Wyoming night.

The setting was a picture postcard of everything that was beautiful about the West, so amazing that even he, a die-hard city boy, could appreciate it. Judah had led them up a path behind the main house to the top of a little rise where the stars sparkled overhead like diamonds spilled across navy velvet. Marcus stared up at them with unabashed amazement. He knew they were real and not the product of a Hollywood studio’s computer graphics, but still...were there this many stars in the sky normally? There sure as hell weren’t above Manhattan.

Trees loomed all around them, infusing the air with the sharp scent of pine. And there were other intriguing smells: wood smoke, damp earth, grass, roasting marshmallows and melting chocolate. Closing his eyes, he breathed it all in. The darkness allowed his hearing to focus in on sounds that he’d never hear over the traffic in the city. Owls hooting and raccoons—he thought they were raccoons—chittering. The distant howl of a wolf and the more distant reply of another wolf.

Bundled in sweaters and woolens, their shoes restored to them as long as they swore not to wear them when they went back inside, they all formed a circle around the blaze and sat in Adirondack chairs that were surprisingly comfortable. The combination of brisk mountain air with a delicious open-fire dinner of bison—yes, bison—burgers, baked potatoes with all the high-fat trimmings and hot apple crisp à la mode all conspired to make him feel slow-witted and dull, which made him glad that Judah ran an alcohol-free household. If he’d had, say, a couple glasses of wine with his dinner, he’d no doubt be curled up on a blanket beside the fire, snoring and drooling.

Which wasn’t exactly the kind of sexy and irresistible image he wanted to project to Claudia.

She, on the other hand, was practically hurting him with her sexy irresistibility.

Sitting to his left, she looked like a snow bunny in a black-and-white Fair Isle sweater that loved her curves almost as much as he did. Her cheeks were flushed, the tip of her nose was pink and all of her was bathed in the fire’s orange warmth. His mind kept soaring off into what-ifs.

What if it was just the two of them, alone, in front of the fire?

What if they snuck off to the hot tub they’d passed on the way up, sipped peppermint-spiced hot chocolate and talked while the hot water swirled around them?

Better yet, what if they left the circle and went inside, to the down-covered king-size bed in his suite of rooms, and made love all through the night?

For now, though, it was enough to watch her cook her first s’mores.

“Oh, no!” she cried. “The

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