Breathless
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Rubbing a hand over his face, the sheriff pressed the transmit button. “Affirmative, dispatch. Any injuries?”
“Negative, but traffic is backing up.”
“Understood. I’ll be there in five. 64 over.”
Maxie folded her arms over her stomach. Talk about not knowing where to settle her hands. What had they just done? Had that been for practice? For dinner tonight? God, she hoped not. Even if Lexie and Roxie were her sisters, she didn’t want them watching as she made a meal of the man. The hot prickles on her body started to outnumber the chills, and she struggled not to fan herself. For a timid sort, it hadn’t taken much encouragement for her to throw herself at him.
“I’ll fire them all,” Zac muttered.
Standing, he adjusted his gun belt. Maxie stepped back and bumped up against the refrigerator.
She needed to say something. Anything.
“Do you think they’ll…?” She cleared her throat. “Do you think they’ll buy it? The sisters, I mean.”
His blue eyes narrowed. “I did.”
He watched her for a long, intense moment before raking his hand through his disheveled hair. “I’ll pick you up later, okay?”
She nodded, her brain once again tripping over itself. Pretend or not, she’d made out with Zac Ford. And she might have sisters, with an s.
How had her one-word plan evolved into this?
“And for future reference…” he opened the door, but stopped with one foot over the threshold, “…I sleep on the right.”
Breathless
Dakota Harrison
She ran half a world away to escape from her past…and found the one man who can heal her heart.
It’s been three years since a seemingly insignificant decision destroyed Emma’s life. Western Colorado is a long way for an Australian girl to run from the suffocating guilt she feels, but it isn’t far enough.
So she’s made herself a promise: No men, no responsibility. Ever again. That was before her pipes burst, and the crusty old plumber she was expecting turns out to be six-foot-two of brooding hardbody with a killer smile—which he rarely aims in her direction.
Gabe doesn’t like it. Even through a layer of plaster dust, Emma’s beauty shines through and grabs him hard. Her laugh wraps around his lungs until he forgets how to breathe. But he’s still looking for pieces of the broken heart another woman’s betrayal left in its wake. Pretty women are trouble, end of story.
Too bad no one told his determinedly matchmaking sister. Her efforts could crash and burn, for all he cares. He’s not interested, not now, now ever. Now if he could only convince his body.
Warning: Contains a relationship-shy woman driven across the world to escape her past, a gun-shy rancher with secrets of his own, and enough sexual tension to leave shyness eating their dust.
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Breathless
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