Nights with the Outlaw
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She ran the tip of one finger over his lips. “That’s just one of the things I love about you. No one else could ever understand me the way you do.”
“Nor the way you understand me,” he admitted.
She braced herself on one arm, looking down at him with a glowing, serene gaze. “We both needed a new start. Now we have it. Tristan will inherit the ranch and we’ll go—”
“What?” he interrupted.
She shrugged. “Go to California?”
“You’ve worked so hard. Your pigs. Jeb and Sarah and the others, they need you.”
Her lips brushed over his. “But I need you more. From now on, I’ll be devoted to making you happy.”
He framed her face with both hands. “You’ll make me happy by doing what you do best. Tristan will need your help to run one of the biggest pig ranches in all of Nebraska.”
She nodded thoughtfully. “Yes, he will.” Tiny lines formed on her forehead. “You’d be all right with that? With us helping him, for a while at least?”
“Yes. I fell in love with a woman pig farmer. And that’s the woman I want to spend the rest of my life loving.”
“What about California?”
He shrugged. “Maybe when you and Tristan sell a right-of-way to the railroad, you can get a couple tickets in the deal, and we’ll take a trip out there.”
“Railroad?”
He nodded. “That’s why the dwellers were in the cave. Martin was trying to sell rights-of-way to the railroad.”
“On our land?”
He nodded. “His lookouts were to keep the railroad men from approaching the ranch.” He touched the tip of her nose. “A railroad agent will be out to talk to you and Tristan next week.”
Her response was a simple but thoughtful, “Hmm,” before she gave him a saucy look. “If we do go to California, are you going to look for women in scanty dresses?”
He grasped her hips and settled her warm, naked body upon his. “Nope. I got the only woman I want to look at right here. No other will ever compare to this.” He kissed the tip of one healthy breast as her weight settled upon him.
She giggled. “We’re going to have a wonderful life. Together, with your leadership and my instincts, we’ll help Tristan build the largest pig farm in Nebraska.”
He cupped her buttocks. “The way you say it, I can’t help but believe it.”
She lowered her lips to his. “You’d better believe it, because when I set my mind to having something, I never give up.” After a brief kiss, she repeated. “Never.”
“I noticed,” he whispered. “I noticed.”
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Lauri Robinson’s chosen genre to write is western historical. When asked why, she says, “Because I know I wasn’t the only girl who wanted to grow up and marry Little Joe Cartwright.”
With a degree in early childhood education, Lauri has spent decades working in the non-profit field and claims once upon a time and happily ever after romance novels have always been a form of stress relief. When her husband suggested she write one, she took the challenge and has loved every minute of the journey.
Lauri lives in rural Minnesota where she and her husband spend every spare moment with their three grown sons and four grandchildren. She works part time, volunteers for several organizations, and is a diehard Elvis and NASCAR fan. Her favorite getaway location is the woods of northern Minnesota on the land homesteaded by her great-grandfather.
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Nights with the Outlaw
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