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"Don't fucking push ot this side of Silver Creek You need to move on about your business You know I'd never hurt her Soothe your godda Find the scuh because I don't like the thought of the her face"

The two men locked each other in a heated look and for a moment Luke didn't think the otherhi shot "I'll find theet their justice Just don'ther in your care" The words were a pointed sneer but Luke didn't have ti away

He hesitated only a moment before he turned and walked back into the house and prowled to the chair where E

He reached out with one hand and lifted her chin in a firht?"

Eht? Physically she was fine She'd ecoach robbery She was safe and whole and had plenty to eat and drink But es were in a jumble Her conscience was louder than it had ever been in her life, but then again, she'd never told sobut erratic, and she'd never been in a man's company alone before, let alone a man like Luke Butler

The only answer she could give him was a small nod of her head, and she did that now

Luke's hand left her chin, slid down her arm in a soft caress and reached for her hand He pulled her up out of her chair and with a jerk, she stuainst him

His arms reached out and encircled her

"It'll take half an hour before Elgin is too far away for one of ot that long to decide" One steely arm rapped around her back, the other traced a line down her spine and then up again in a smooth caress

"I thought I'd already decided"

"You need a littleof the situation before you can make a proper decision"

Emma was pleasantly shocked by the intimacy of his touch and held enthralled as she stood in the circle of his ar that sees as if she were coen

"Fair warning, Eirl," his smooth voice was brutal

"Warning?" she ed to ask

"I feel inclined to onna be while you still have the opportunity to leave Like I said, in half an hour or so, that option will be taken away from you"

"I'm sure" Her voice was hesitant and didn't sound sure at all

"Yeah?" His gaze slipped to her rew stormy "Let's hear you repeat that in a few minutes"

E before his mouth fell on hers

Shock and sudden exciteainst hers Eether as Luke's tongue invaded her hts away frohly, almost violently, he pulled her into his body and held her with uncoth as he took what he wanted from her mouth

Her heart beat raced out of tiue slide in and out of her ainst him

She'd heard about kisses like this, listened as the teenage girls in the orphanage had whispered to each other late at night, but she'd never experienced anything like it before in her life

Through a new haze of desire, she briefly realized that he would expect her to know about this side of intimacy, and with new dedication, tried to ue and lips on hers

She tentatively swirled her tongue with his, their breathing roan deep in the back of his throat, and her skin tingled where he touched her, and then, in other areas, where shockingly, she found herself wanting to be touched

His breath was hot against her face and she tried to absorb as happening to her, tried to ainst her in case it never happened again

Luke gave up a prayer of thanksgiving that she was a woirl that he'd have to go easy with as her scent, the taste of her skin went to his head as fast as moonshine whiskey on an empty stomach

He felt her sway against hih her lips with his tongue and tasted the sweetness within Ahhh, she eet, and holding her in his arht of her going back to town and being alone with anotherride unacceptable to him

She eet and soft and she sainst her and felt hiue reached out to tangle with his and the honeyed taste of her lips andwithin seconds

He steeled his eainst her, and concentrated on the taste of woman in his arms Female Woman That's all this was

He'd never had an available wo him hard as a rock, that's all this was That's all it could be That's all he'd let it be