The Cowboy's Pregnant Bride (St. Valentine, Texas) by Green Crystal

Author:Green, Crystal [Green, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

She was his.

As Jared wrapped his arms around her, encompassing her as if she belonged only to him and he wasn’t ever going to let her go, she gave herself fully over, knowing that it was always meant to be this way.

Back when he’d first walked into the diner all those months ago, through the summer and fall and beginning of winter, as they’d bantered and kept a friendly yet polite space between them, this moment had been coming.

It had been inevitable.

And she reveled in every bit of it, kissing him right back, sinking against his wide chest, hooking her arms under his and gripping his shoulders, feeling her baby bump nestling against him.

During their first kiss, there’d been a sense of innocence, but not now—not after such an emotionally charged night when he’d been laid bare to her.

Now there was raw urgency as his mouth devoured hers, as he claimed her and she opened herself to him.

She moaned as he slowed the kiss, as his tongue entered her mouth, seeking, needing, stroking her tongue with a knee-weakening rhythm.

She felt hotter with every roiling bang of her pulse as it pounded in her chest, sliding down and down until it got to the middle of her legs.

She ached for him—ached until she had to break off their kiss and bury her face in his neck.

Skin and musk and cowboy, she thought again, her breath heavy and ragged against him. Her mouth pressed against a vein, and she could feel it throbbing beneath her lips, could feel his heart beating crazily in his chest.

He buried his fingers in her hair, loosening the pins that were holding it up. “Annie?”

It was a question, maybe not just to her.

Even just by saying her name, she could hear all his confusion. Should he go any further?

Should they?

She’d already come up with an answer on the night she’d returned home to find her backyard decorated with lights that were just as bright as what she felt in her heart right now. That night, she had seen in Jared a man who could love, and he had been nothing like the guy she had feared he might be—too full of secrets, too removed to ever have significant feelings for anyone else.

So should they?

“Yes,” she whispered.

His breath hitched as he held her away from him, searching her gaze. She smiled up at him while he pulled the pins from her hair, one by one. They dropped to the floor with what sounded like tiny chimes.

When he was done, her hair fell down her back and her shoulders, and he pushed it away from her face, exploring her temples, her cheekbones, her jawline.

It was as if he’d never seen her before, and maybe he hadn’t—not like this, at least. Not so vulnerable, with her refusing to hide how she felt about him now.

Two people who could’ve been alone tonight, she thought, leaning against one of his palms as he cupped her face. Two people who belong together.

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