by Renee Rose
“I hope you will forgive us, but we left our ranch back in Wyoming Territory unattended and we are anxious to get back to it,” he said.
He saw Marshal Owens eying him suspiciously. “Marshal, I want you to know I cleared up that business with Mick Malone,” he said. “Just in case my face looks familiar from the Wanted posters.”
The other brothers and their wives turned and stared.
Mabelle took his arm and lifted her chest. “My husband was unjustly accused after acting in self-defense,” she explained.
He suppressed a smile. He hardly cared what these men thought of him, even if they were his blood relations. Only Mabelle’s esteem mattered. Tipping his hat and nodding to the group, he led his bride out to the busy street where the noise of carriages passing and people’s voices filled the air.
He pulled Mabelle against him and stared down into her beautiful face.
“Fifty thousand dollars!” she breathed, her eyes wide.
He grinned. “Looks like we are having steak for lunch!”
Her eyebrows drew together. “Our plan is still the same, though? We are going back to Wyoming Territory?”
He nodded. “Don’t we have a ranch to run?”
The lines on her forehead relaxed and she smiled up at him. “Yes, we do!” she sang out triumphantly.
“Come on, little ranch girl,” he said, leading her to the wagon and lifting her into it. “I cannot wait to get you home.”
She looked down, her eyes shining. “Home,” she repeated softly.
He unhitched the horses and climbed in beside her, putting an arm around her waist to draw her close as he managed the reins with the other hand.
There, in the streets of Denver in broad daylight, he kissed his wife full on the lips. The promise of their future glowed no more brightly than that instant, sitting beside her in an old wagon, knowing every moment going forward they would be together.
Renee Rose
Renee Rose, an erotic romance author, did not come out of the closet as a spanko until she published her spanking romance Betrothed. A lifelong writer, she has a B.A. in creative writing from Knox College, where she won the Davenport prize for both fiction and poetry, and the Lorraine Smith prize for literary criticism. She spent thirteen years in technical writing before she found a way to incorporate her deepest darkest spanking fantasies into fiction and express a part of her that longed to see the light. She is now passionate about supporting others in accepting and exploring their kink, whatever that may be.
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Other books by Renee Rose and Blushing Books:
The Reddington Scandal
Lady Meriwyn's Punishment
Safe in His Arms
The Westerfield Affair
The Devil of Whiskey Row
Lords and Ladies
The Knight's Prisoner
Pleasing the Colonel
Deathless Love
Courting Celia
Loving Lucia
Betrothed
The Outlaw’s Bride
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