Lindsay McKenna

She felt his fingers caress her scalp, the sensations swift, heated shocks rocking through her body. His breath was punctuated against her cheek and nose. The tension mounted in him until Shiloh felt as if he would snap and break, unleashing that throbbing sexual power she sensed so intensely around him.

She looked over at him, her eyes warm. __our face has a story to tell._ Mouth quirking, Roan growled, __t__ a top-secret face, Darlin_.

Frowning, Shiloh forced herself to look up at him. Roan deserved her courage, not her cowardice. __ou wanted to kiss me._ __ still do.

Shiloh had never seen a man who was a hunter. But she saw one now. There was an intense feeling around Roan, raw and untamed, as he studied her, his nostrils flaring to catch her scent. He ruthlessly dug into her opening eyes, reading her, trying to understand where she was at within herself and what she wanted from him. __his is your call,_ he said, his voice low and guttural.

Nothing can fix a broken heart except love. Love always repairs those fractures we get in our heart.

She took his finger and placed a small kiss on the end of it. __ou__e just full of surprises, Taggart._ She saw him give her a very pleased male smile. __tick around, Darlin_, there__ more to me than meets your eyes._ __hould I be afraid?

The lush greenness of the pastures infused Shiloh. Overhead, she saw a red-tailed hawk flying in higher and higher circles in the sky. There were bluebirds everywhere, many of them sitting on fence posts. When they took off, that flash of brilliant blue always made her gasp with delight; it was almost an unearthly gorgeous color.

Let__ get one thing clear between us, Shiloh. I would never laugh at you. I might tease the dickens out of you, but I would never, ever make fun of you. That__ not who I am. I don__ believe in humiliating another person. It__ not in my DNA.

Giving him a wry look, Shiloh said, __ think you__e forcing me to look at myself, what I want, who I am._ __ood relationships always do that for both people, Darlin_. It__ just a natural progression between them. It can bring out our self-awareness. It__ not easy. But it__ rewarding.

He traced her arched eyebrow. __very morning when I wake up with you at my side, you__e more beautiful than yesterday.

He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. ____ the present, Darlin_.