comment and the applause, Griff scanned the audience, ever mindful of the threat, and snugged a finger against her back. He’d noticed Flanagan and McCann in the audience and fully expected Payne to be waiting for them when they came off the runway. “Come on,” he said. “We need to move.” &nb...
He thumped his fist against his sternum and tried to swallow, then gulped down some tea. Eyes twinkling, she continued to blithely eat her food. “You okay?” she asked, arching an innocent brow. He cleared his aching throat. “Yes,” he wheezed. “Just trying to make my lungs digest some food. Wonder...
A shaky breath leaked out of her lungs. “You saved me, big guy,” she told him. “From doing something really stupid.” Moses licked her cheek in answer, causing an unexpected chuckle to break loose in her throat. “Oh, Moses,” she said with a shaky laugh. “T...
The phone rang, startling Annie from her passion-induced idiocy. Mortified by her wanton, reckless behavior, she jerked away from Mitch and grabbed a towel. “That was a mistake,” she breathed raggedly. “But —” “But nothing,” Annie interrupted a seemingly baffled Mitch. Her cheeks scalding, she ha...
Sam’s disembodied voice called from the kitchen. “I’ve got water, milk, soda and beer.” “Uh…a beer,” Delaney answered. Though beer didn’t necessarily go with this particular dish, it wouldn’t hurt to have a little alcoholic courage running through her veins. Sam heaved a dramatic sigh and humor t...
4 BEN SLOWLY RELEASED HER when every instinct he possessed screamed for him to hold on to her and never let her go. To strip her naked, then stretch her ripe body out on the rug beneath their feet and pump into her until every last bit of energy he possessed was gone, given to her. And he would…b...
She’d barely stayed five minutes upon her return and, though he hadn’t been able to clearly see her face, everything about her body language suggested that she was unhappy. Her shoulders were rounded, her step slow. He heard her chuckle, but there was no humor in the sound. It rang hollow, almost...
Were that not disconcerting enough to a woman who didn’t recall going to bed—much less inviting someone to join her—the big hand attached to the male presently cradled her breast in the softest of embraces. However, the same could not be said for the hard ridge of arousal pressed intimately to he...
The entrance was just as she remembered seeing it from the road and driveway. Considering she was an even five feet, she’d decided that the ornate fence was double her height, with razor-sharp edges along the top. There was never more than a three-inch gap between the various wrought-iron branche...
The first fifteen to twenty seconds of their so-called exercise she’d been adorably shy, utterly miserable and obviously so far out of her comfort zone he’d found himself smiling to reassure her. Knox was a man who always questioned everything—that insatiable curiosity had prompted his career cho...
He took a seat in a wing chair away from the makeshift dance floor and watched as Chester once again fired up the old Victrola. But he’d wait his turn, particularly since Chester looked to be having the time of his life. Lex had been over the maps and addresses several times and had concluded tha...