Her gaze locked with his and she felt her heart quicken. Slowly, he bent his head until his lips were only a breath away from her own. She couldn’t breathe. Didn’t dare. She thought she would die if he didn’t kiss her.
Please don’t take offense, but I want no part of this family or what comes with it.
Where are you taking me?” Abby asked from the passenger seat of the pickup.
He locked gazes with her. “I have to wonder why you aren’t being straight with me. I hate getting myself killed without knowing why.
He’d been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.
I want to die.” May shook her head. “Let me get a knife.” “I’ve made a horrible mess of things.” “Haven’t we all? If you don’t want your supper burned, die quietly while I get back to the kitchen.
DJ saw the change in his expression the moment before he dropped the ax, reached out with his gloved hand and, cupping her neck, drew her to him. “I believe you owe me a kiss.
She shot him a look she thought he might still remember, the same one a rattler gives right before it strikes.
I want you, too, Hayes Cardwell, and that isn’t the beer talking.”They were so close she could see the shine of his dark eyes in the starlight. Without another word, he swept her up in his arms and carried her into the cabin.
I know what you’re up to.””I doubt that.” Hayes leaned toward her, his hand looping around the back of McKenzie’s neck as he gently drew her to him. “Because if you could see what I was up to, then you’d know I was about to kiss you.
The motorcycle’s headlights cut through the darkness. Ahead the road was nothing but a black hole. She roared toward it.
He couldn’t jeopardize the saloon because of some silly infatuation with an outlaw. Even one as beautiful as Mariah Ayers.
Remember what I told you about family secrets.” People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman’s rocking didn’t change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.
Hell, I’ve always like the man,” he said now. “Until he became involved with my wife.
What will your family think, me showing up on their doorstep with my suitcase in hand?””I’ll carry your suitcase,” he said.
I have a suspicious mind, and murder is kind of my business.
Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl,” her father said, looking worried, “ ‘specially the renegade ones. They’ll turn you every way but loose.
Lillie woke to darkness an instant before a large warm hand clamped down over her mouth…