Suddenly, black smoke wafted around them, pulling them out of their lusty haze. Merrick turned toward the grill and groaned. The hamburgers resembled little charcoal discs. “I suck at cooking.”
“It’s okay, because you excel at other things.”
Merrick ached to show her those other things, but his mother shouting from the patio door had him scowling instead. He looked up to see Lacey heading toward them with a fresh batch of hamburgers. Shit, it was going to be a long night.
The heated look in his sweet wife’s eyes made him see the truth, though. As long as he had Chloe, he was ten feet tall and capable of anything.
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Turbulent Passions
© 2009 Anne Rainey
Sapphire Demas and her twin brother have a secret. Since the awful day their parents were killed, they've been in hiding, fearful the same fate will befall them. Now she’s grown tired of living a half-life, tired of lying. She wants something just for herself. When she stumbles across an unconscious man while hiking through the woods and brings him home to heal, she knows she’s found it. Even if he’s a dangerous outsider.
Investigative journalist Adam Richton trusts only one thing—his nose for news. He’s never failed to get a story and doesn't intend to start now. Until a beautiful and mysterious woman rescues him. In an instant, he forgets all about his career. Now all he wants is Sapphire, any way he can get her.
Then he witnesses something extraordinary that puts his reporter instincts back on full alert. Something that exposes Sapphires secrets, challenges him to believe the unbelievable…and to trust in something way out of his comfort zone: love.
Enjoy the following excerpt for Turbulent Passions:
So she wasn’t wearing a two-piece and she didn’t plan to skinny dip, but the bright pink one-piece wasn’t anything to sneeze at, either. Full, round breasts filled out the top half, and long shapely legs tempted him beyond reason. He wanted to pull the straps of her suit down her shoulders and watch her pretty tits spring free. His mouth watered as he imagined tasting her soft skin and sucking on her perky nipples.
As he stood in the grass and concentrated on not getting a hard-on, Sapphire slowly descended into the water. The surrounding trees and wild flowers made the little round pond seem more like a private oasis. They were completely alone. Anything could happen.
“Come on,” she enticed, “the water’s just right.”
He walked to the very edge and was about to step in when she splashed him a good one. He sucked in his breath as the cold water hit his bare chest. “Damn, that’s freezing!”
She splashed him again, before ducking under the water and out of sight. Adam took the plunge and dove in. When he resurfaced, she was staring at him, a wicked gleam in her eyes.
He stalked toward her, noting the way she firmed her shoulders. Her nipples were stiff little peaks that he wanted to nibble on for hours. Her dark, wet hair was smoothed back, giving him a good view of her oval-shaped face and those mesmerizing blue eyes. Adam all but drooled. “You’re a little minx.”
“What are you going to do about it?”
Within inches now, Adam made a grab for her, just barely catching her upper arms before she ducked under the surface again. He drew her against his chest, aligning their curves. Damn, she felt good against him.