The Colton Ransom by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Gabby couldn’t sleep.

She knew sleep was eluding her not because of her hopes to find her missing half brother or even because she was so positive that she and Trevor could get to the bottom of who had killed Faye and kidnapped Avery. What was keeping her from falling asleep, even though she did her very best to talk herself down, was the memory of that unexpected, red-hot kiss in the cab of the truck a few short hours ago. Every time she started to drift off to sleep, she’d suddenly find herself reliving the whole breath-stopping scenario and she’d be wide-awake again.

It wasn’t as if she’d never been kissed by anyone before. She had. And while there had never been an endless parade of men in her life, the ones she’d gone out with were all decent, good men.

The trouble was, none of the others had ever made her blood sizzle the way Trevor had, never made her soul sing the way his kiss had.

None of them had ever aroused her to such heights the way he had, not even Kyle Buchanan, the one who had abandoned her for a rodeo career.

She supposed, if she were being completely honest with herself, she’d had a crush—to a greater or lesser degree—on Trevor Garth from the very first time she’d laid eyes on the tall, dark and solemn-as-a-tomb man. Gabby could vaguely remember him as a young teenager, living with Faye and her son.

After that, there were years that he was gone, living in Cheyenne and working on the police force there. And then, five years ago, he’d returned, looking even more solemn than when he’d left.

As Gabby lay in her bed in the dark, she tried to remember if she’d ever heard him laugh with real happiness. Try as she might, she couldn’t come up with a single memory. She felt that laughter was very important in a person’s life. The fact that she’d never heard him express joy saddened her.

There was something about the man, something deep inside him, that reached out and spoke to her. Something that convinced her that Trevor needed to make a connection with another human being on an emotional level, no matter what he pretended to the contrary.

Just before she finally drifted off to sleep an hour before dawn, Gabby decided to make it her personal mission to make the former Cheyenne police officer laugh just once.

Who knew? He might even decide that he liked the feeling and do it again sometime.

That it was a possibility worth exploring was the last coherent thought Gabby had before she finally managed to fall asleep.

* * *

“You look like hell.”

The assessment had come from Trevor only a few hours later. He had come by to pick her up as he had promised and was standing in the foyer, looking at her a bit bemusedly.

The comeback was automatic. “Thank you. Right back at you,” Gabby replied flippantly.

She’d had just enough time to throw some cold

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