by Helen Conrad
“Say you love me,” he demanded roughly in her ear.
Beyond words, she moaned and reached to pull him closer, but he held her hands. “Say you love me,” he said again. “I’ve got to hear you say it.”
Kelly’s eyes opened wide and stared into his dark, mysterious gaze. She didn’t understand him yet. Perhaps she never would. But she loved him, and right now she needed him more than she needed air to breathe.
“I love you,” she gasped out, almost fiercely. “I love you!”
He plunged in as though that had been all he’d been waiting for, carrying her into the white heat of passion. She clung to him, crying out in need, in anticipation, and then finally in ecstasy. She wrapped herself around him, holding on, never wanting it to end. And then, with a sigh, she went limp against him.
He kissed her, his body still tingling, his relief so intense that he could feel each muscle sigh on its own.
“What do you think?” he said at last, opening one eye to look at where she lay among the pillows beside him. “Think we can make it together?”
She smiled at him. “I don’t think there will ever be any problem with the lovemaking,” she said softly.
His eyes darkened and he touched her face. “Can you really marry a gambler?” he asked.
“I’m in love with a gambler,” she said. “I think marrying him should be the next step.”
“You do understand that I’m not reformable?” His eyes searched hers.
“Oh, Cody!” She laughed. “Don’t ever change for me. I wouldn’t want you any other way. Don’t you know that?”
He grinned, mussing her hair. “So you can accept me and my questionable ways, can you?”
She nodded happily. “If you can accept me and my moralizing.”
He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. He’d always considered himself a relatively happy person. But the joy he was feeling now was so far beyond anything he’d ever experienced before that he had to stop every few moments and remind himself this wasn’t a dream.
“I came into your world and we shook a few people up, didn’t we? And then you came into mine and you did the same.” He chuckled. “I don’t know, I think maybe you and I are going to have to go off and find a desert island somewhere where we can fit in— with each other.”
“This will be our desert island,” she whispered, moving her naked body closer to the heat of his. “Just you—" She touched him. “—and me.”
“Just you and me,” he whispered back. “I’ll take those odds.”
The End
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Helen Conrad is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than 90 romances (over 15 million copies sold) published under various pseudonyms with Harlequin, Silhouette, Loveswept, and others. She is currently revamping and rewriting much of her backlist--some available in the US for the first time--to present on Kindle.
Meanwhile, she and her husband are living in a California beach town very much like Destiny Bay and loving it.
"The Destiny Bay Romances take place in the sort of beach town I've always loved--and now I live in one! But writing about beach towns came first and this series is centered on the rich, influential Carrington family living along the California Coast and its interior valleys, and in Hawaii. These are good-looking, fast-driving, hard-hitting men and women whose impulses lead them into trouble every time--and inevitably to fall in love.”
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