“Stop what? Lookin’ at you? Why? Are your nipples getting hard under that uniform blouse?”
She issued a low growl. “Leave my nipples out of this!” she screamed far too loudly. She hoped his brothers and that woman Mimi weren’t within earshot.
Asher’s lips twisted at one corner.
“Are you laughing at me now? God, you’re a real pig.”
He took one step closer to her. Then another. She backed away and fetched up against the railing. Trapped.
“Asher, I swear if you—”
He caught a lock of hair that floated loose from her ponytail and tucked it behind her ear, gaze roaming over her face. “If I touch you? If I kiss you?”
“Don’t you dare.” She put enough force behind her tone that surely he’d back off.
Yet he didn’t. In fact, he closed in until he had her pressed firmly against the railing with her front plastered all over the man’s hard, hot body.
When he hooked an arm around her middle, her body bowed into his touch. When he crushed his mouth over hers, her damn tongue slid out to stroke against his. A moan left her lips, and she couldn’t suck it back inside any more than she could keep her body from wanting him.
Just as she got into the kiss, he tore his mouth free. Panting, she stared up at him.
“I didn’t tell you I knew your brother because it had nothing to do with what’s between us.”
Between us? Like enough lust and chemistry to burn down all of Stokes?
She hitched in a breath that didn’t fully make it to her lungs. “Please let me go.” The weakness of her words roused a bigger smile from him. Her heart turned over.
“You don’t want that any more than I do, darlin’. Now listen to me. I am gonna let you go, but only because I’ve got work to do, same as you.”
She jerked free of him and ducked around his big body barring her way. “That’s another thing! You can’t just go kill all the coyotes because the coalition of ranchers asked you to! We’ve got state rules and regulations to follow.”
“I didn’t say I was. I told them to let it up to you.”
She blinked in shock. “Well then…” No words came to mind. “Thank you.”
He gave a nod so sexy that her insides turned to liquid desire and flowed south to dampen her panties.
“This doesn’t change the fact that you took in my brother, who’s an innocent man.”
His jaw tightened. “I won’t discuss that with you, so don’t ask me again.”
“Fine. I’m leavin’. Stay out of our way, Moon.” She made her way down the porch steps before throwing a backward glance at him—and realizing he was staring at her ass.
Her knees went to jelly, and she nearly walked back up those steps and into his arms.
No, she would leave with the last word.
She didn’t walk away nearly fast enough.
Leave, Kinsey.
He’s staring at my ass.
Yeahhhh, he is. And you want to go back and throw yourself at him.
She rushed across the yard and jumped into her Jeep, making sure he heard how loudly she slammed the door. She had to draw a line in the dirt between them, and Asher had to respect the boundary.
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Em Petrova
Em Petrova was raised by hippies in the wilds of Pennsylvania but told her parents at the age of four she wanted to be a gypsy when she grew up. She has a soft spot for babies, puppies and 90s Grunge music and believes in Bigfoot and aliens. She started writing at the age of twelve and prides herself on making her characters larger than life and her sex scenes hotter than hot.
She burst into the world of publishing in 2010 after having five beautiful bambinos and figuring they were old enough to get their own snacks while she pounds away at the keys. In her not-so-spare time, she is fur-mommy to a Labradoodle named Daisy Hasselhoff.
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