Blazing Bedtime Stories by Rhonda Nelson & Kimberly Raye & Leslie Kelly

Blazing Bedtime Stories by Rhonda Nelson & Kimberly Raye & Leslie Kelly

Author:Rhonda Nelson & Kimberly Raye & Leslie Kelly [Raye, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-02-02T08:11:07+00:00


5

HUNTER NEEDED sleep. Badly. It had been a rough week, and last night he hadn’t even tried to close his eyes. The bone-deep weariness was going to catch up to him, probably at the worst possible time—like when he finally came face-to-face with Lucas—if he didn’t do something about it.

But he didn’t know that he could trust her. Scarlett. His unwelcome, unwanted, unbelievably sexy guest. Despite her scare, he wasn’t sure she wouldn’t up and leave the minute he nodded off, if only to prove to herself that she wasn’t afraid to.

She could get into real trouble here. Or, at the very least, see things that would make her question her own sanity. He hadn’t been joking about that damn dwarf from up the road, whose No Trespassing signs were backed up by his ax.

God knew, the first time Hunter had crossed the border—not even sure he believed there was one, despite what his dying mother had told him—he hadn’t believed his own senses. And he’d been prepared. Scarlett wasn’t.

He should never have brought her here.

She’d been bad enough when woozy and hyped up on tea. Now, with all her faculties firmly in place, and that mouth giving back as good as she got, he found her even more distracting. More frustrating.

More damned attractive.

In silence, she was completely sexy. Conscious and aware, she delighted him.

Still, kissing her? Dumbest thing he’d ever done.

“Is my shoe really lost?” she asked, still lying on the bed, relaxed, oozing physical satisfaction as though she’d just had great sex rather than just getting her feet tended and sharing one little—all right, big—kiss.

He should have handed her the water and ointment and let her take care of herself. Then there would have been no soft whispered, “Thank you,” followed by a kiss of gratitude that had turned into one of pure carnal pleasure.

If she hadn’t set out to make it that way, he’d give up his truck. And damn, he loved that truck.

“Yeah,” he said, remembering her question. “I guess it fell off your foot when I carried you here.”

“How far did you have to carry me again?”

The softness of her query didn’t disguise the sharpness of her interest. The woman was thinking about leaving, trying to find her way out all on her own. He was never going to be able to get any sleep.

“A long way,” he told her, hoping to discourage her. And it wasn’t a lie. Maybe they hadn’t gone far in conventional distance, but metaphorically, they’d gone over the freaking rainbow. There was a dusty, gold-tinged paved road not five leagues from here that proved it.

“We went over some pretty rough terrain,” he added, “so don’t get any ideas, shoeless.”

Her lip curled in derision. “And somehow we left the Louisiana bayou and ended up in something resembling Carolina woods.”

She wasn’t too far off, really. Everything was smaller over here, not just time. If he walked to the next border crossing over, maybe half a day away on this side, he’d come out several states away from where they’d entered in Louisiana.



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