Diana Palmer Long Tall Texans 08 Evan

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never say no to Evan if he really wanted her. But
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giving in to him would be a big mistake, she realized sadly as reality punctured her bright dreams.
His sense of honor might even force him into marriage if he compromised her. She didn't want a
reluctant bridegroom. Love on one side would never be enough.
Evan smiled, but he didn't look at her again. He left, and Polly went back to her daydreams, unaware
of Anna's rising fears.
That night she got up long enough to have supper with her parents, enjoying the way they talked to
each other and to her. She felt part of a family for the first time in years. And Polly was actually
radiant. Later she excused herself and went to lie down, leaving Duke and Polly alone together. When
she fell asleep after hours of daydreaming about the day ahead and Evan, they were still sitting in the
living room talking.
Evan arrived late the next morning with two newly released movies .in his hand, looking rakish and
barely awake in denim and a checked Western shirt. He also looked half out of humor.
"I was up late doing book work," he explained to Polly, forcing a smile. In fact, he'd lain awake
worrying about what he was going to do if he lost control with Anna and scared her half to death. He
knew his fears were irrational, but he'd lived with them far too long to be able to dismiss them now.
Duke had stayed the night at the house, but he was dressed and ready to leave before Polly awoke and
got dressed herself. Lori had served breakfast and
gone out with friends to see a movie.
"How's my girl?" Duke asked Anna, as he joined
his wife and daughter and Evan in Anna's bedroom
where she lay, dressed in a long red skirt and a red—
and-gold patterned blouse, stretched out on top of her
covers with her long blond hair soft around her face
and her pretty feet bare. Anna kissed his tan cheek when he bent down.
"Doing fine. I hope you and Mom catch a lot of
fish."
"I'll settle for one pretty one," Duke murmured
dryly, and Polly actually blushed.
Anna smiled at them. "Go away and enjoy yourselves."
They exchanged glances, but they didn 't argue. "Don't worry about her," Evan told them solemnly.
"I'll take good care of her."
He was saying more than the words implied, and they knew it. Polly saw Duke relax visibly, and after
a brief conversation, they left.
Evan walked them out and then returned to Anna's room, pausing in the doorway to look at her. She
looked delicious. His heart began to run wild, just at the sight of her.
"Do you feel like watching these?" he asked, holding up two tapes of just-released movies.
"Yes," she said huskily, thinking how sweet it would be if he lay down with her on the bed and let
her lie against him. Her face flamed with desire.
He had to turn away from that expression. He was
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off Anna.
and turned on the television before he started it.
"Well...no," she said. "It's her day off."
His jaw tautened. He actually shivered.
"Lori's here, isn't she?" he asked tautly, to make sure, while he loaded the first movie into the VCR
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glad the housekeeper was around. If she hadn't been, he wasn't sure he could manage to keep his hands
"Will it help if I promise not to seduce you?" she asked with a lightness she didn't feel. Her heart
was racing.
He felt his body tauten as he looked at her across the room, his eyes falling helplessly to her
blouse. "You wouldn't have to, don't you know?" he asked on a harsh laugh. "All you have to do is
touch me."
Her heart ran wild. The truth of it was in his face, and all her dreams seemed to come true at once. She
held out her arms to him, burning up with need.
He groaned, but he couldn't help himself. He went to her, feeling her cold hands curve around his
neck as he bent, easing her back on the bed. It was wrong, he shouldn't. But her body was yielding and
soft and exquisitely formed, and he felt himself going rigid long before his mouth lowered to her
parted lips.
His body went down alongside hers on the mattress, his mouth fitting over hers with warm, slow
mastery as they sank back onto the quilted coverlet.
It was heaven. Anna nibbled eagerly at his lips, loving the taste of him, the warmth and strength of his
body against hers. But just as he deepened the
kiss and his arms tightened, she gasped, and he drew back instantly.
"Did I hurt you?" he asked curtly, his eyes worried. "My God, sometimes I hate my own size!"
"You didn't hurt me," she said and lowered her eyes to his hard mouth. "I go hot all over when you
kiss me like that," she whispered huskily.
He relaxed. His fingers traced her cheek. "All that worry, wasted," he mused with forced lightness.
"Do you really think I could ever be afraid of you, Evan?" she asked unsteadily. "Don't you know
already that you could do anything to me and I'd let you?"
His eyes flashed. He bent hungrily to her lips as one big arm slid under her and lifted her against him.
His mouth caressed and withdrew, brushed and lifted, as he aroused her with maddening skill until she
was clinging and following his lips with her own, trying to make him end the torment.
"What do you want?" he whispered.
"Kiss me!" she moaned.
His teeth nibbled lazily at her lower lip. "Isn't that what I'm doing?"
"Do it right. Open your mouth and do it...!"
He did, at the same time shifting his big body so that his hips were squarely over hers, his arousal hot
and blatant as it rested on her soft belly.
She gasped at the intimacy.
He lifted his mouth from hers and looked into her shocked eyes. He didn't move for a long moment,
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but that wasn't fear in her eyes. He moved softly and she grimaced.
He realized then that it was embarrassment, not distaste, and he smiled gently as he levered his body
to one side. She smiled back, her face coloring delicately.
He eased one powerful leg between both of hers and she stiffened.
He shook his head. "No. This is part of lovemaking. I want you to know everything there is to know
about my body. You have to, before we go any further."
She had to fight her own shyness, but after a minute she relented and let him rest against her.
"Don't be afraid," he said, his voice deep and sensual. "I'm letting you learn me, that's all."
She relaxed even more, and as the shock of intimacy slowly wore off, she began to enjoy the feel
of his body.
He knew that she had no experience by which to judge him. That relaxed him a little. There was so
much that she didn't know, but at least, thank God, there was no apprehension in her face. He'd never
been able to make Louisa lie with him like this at all. In fact, she'd found intimacy with him almost
distasteful. He still remembered how she cringed when he touched her breasts, and she'd never liked
his mouth on them.
He drew his fingers slowly over Anna's breasts, the sound of flesh against fabric loud in the tense
silence as he gently teased around the nipple that
suddenly became taut. He held her eyes the whole time, heard her breathing change even as she
allowed him the caress with damning generosity.
She gasped and arched toward his hand, trying to make him end the torment as he touched everywhere
except against the hardness that ached for him.
"Gently," he whispered. "I'm going to do what you want me to, but let me make you burn for it
first."
She colored, but she didn't protest his touch. She lay back against the pillows, her face flushed,
waiting, trembling, as he built the torment almost to anguish and she moaned.
His big hand tensed under her, and he leaned closer, his dark eyes filling the world. "Is it bad?" he
whispered.
"Yes!" Her nails bit into his shoulders as she let him see the helpless reaction of his body to his
caress. "Evan, please! Oh, please!"
He drew his nose softly against hers, his breath on her cheek, her lips, and still his knuckles brushed
with maddening slowness just at the very edge of her taut nipple. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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