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I’ve never been an impulsive man. Never rushed. Always planned.

But I also believe in signs. Things around us that compel us to listen. I just about lost her a moment ago, and I take that as a sign. No more fucking waiting.

“Something like this,” I answer, moving toward her, and take her mouth with mine as I hold her by the back of the neck, letting her know she’s in my hands now.

ChapterFour

Mary Beth

Since I arrived, I honestly wasn’t sure if the sexy cowboy was lookingatme, orthroughme. I could never tell if it was contempt in his eyes or desire.

After all, with my cellphone, laptop and never before worn cowboy boots, I’m not the kind of girl that would attract a cowboy sprung directly from the screen of a John Wayne Western.

Still, I’ve watched him at every opportunity.

Moving on his horse.

Walking far away from the group with what I thought was indifference to the silly city folks.

Although I swear, a few times when I caught his eye, there was a spark. Like a predator watching prey. I sensed a wild hunger, and I felt like I might be dinner.

For a flash, those blue eyes would dart my way, then just as quickly they’d turn away. I pretended it was the animal in him pacing, waiting for the opportunity.

Those moments made me dizzy. Made me wet and unsteady.

Made me want things I didn’t know I wanted before I came here.

Now, his mouth is crushed to mine. The warmth of his greedy tongue spinning with my own as heat rises through my chilled body. I draw a sharp breath as his hand grips the back of my neck, his other sweeping under, gripping my ribs just under my breast.

A desperate groan escapes, and I’m sure my nipples are hard enough to cut glass. I’m wet, with goosebumps on my flesh, but I’m heating from the inside out. There’s a deep ache in my center, the same one that comes to me every time I look at him. Only this time it’s nearly unbearable. I fight off the orgasm building as he pulls back from our kiss, leaving me breathless.

My mind wanders back to the last thing I was looking at before the river took me.

That picture, showing something very large in his pants, has me spinning and wild. I’ve never been a fast girl, never took to anyone quickly—or barely at all. My experience is sad and limited, only a couple of boyfriends in college because I felt it was the thing to do.

Butnothinghas ever felt the way this blue-eyed cowboy makes me feel.

My heart pounds with lust and joy against my sternum as his eyes make me think everything in my life is going to be okay. Out here, in the middle of nowhere, there’s a sense of fate. A comfort I’ve not felt before. He’s so close now, the heat from his body radiates to mine, warming my chill away.

“Your mouth has been driving me half-crazy since you got out of that van.” His eyes scan my face, falling to my open lips as he shakes his head. “It’s better than I imagined.”

“Thank you.” It’s all I can think to say, but I mean it. “I thought I might die. I thought about all the things I want to do with my life.” The tension in the air between us ripples with a current that has me trembling.

“I did too. It fucking terrified me. Do you want to know what I want to do?” His voice is deeper as he moves his hand from behind my neck to run the pad of his thumb over my bottom lip.

I swallow the lump in my throat and nod, leaning slightly forward into his grip. He shifts onto his knees in front of me as I sit cross-legged, then he places his hands on my thighs, forcing us face to face.

“I want you to take off your shirt. Because if you don’t, I’m going to rip it off.”

His words turn the desire inside me into a living, breathing being that demands its needs be met.

To my own shock, with tingling fingers, I reach down to the hem of my t-shirt and start to pull it up, and I hear Garrett growl. His nostrils flare, eyes narrowing as they look down at my body making me feel exposed.

“Off,” he grunts.

I should be scared; out here, wet, with a man I barely know, demanding I undress for him.

But I’m not. I’m exhilarated. My panties are soaked from the river but soaked again for other reasons.

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