(Seasons of Alaska #5)
by Carol Ross
Contemporary Romance
Paperback & ebook, 384 pagesby Carol Ross
Contemporary Romance
April 1st 2018 by Harlequin Superromance
and the cure for a perennial bachelor?
Raised by her healer grandfather, former army medic Ally Mowak knows her alternative approach to traditional medicine puts her at odds with most of her Alaskan town. That includes Tag James, the rugged transport pilot with the sprawling family and political ambitions. Ally couldn’t be more wrong for the aspiring senator. Then why does everything feel so right when they’re together?
Excerpt
A loud sigh accompanied Ally’s eye
roll while Tag sat there looking satisfied with his stupid joke.
“Are you...serious with this?”
Slipping an arm behind him to grip the back of the bench, she inched toward
him, studying his reaction. “Do you really not...?”
She scooted closer. Desire and terror
looked to be at war on his face. He stared at her lips and leaned away from her
at the same time. She would have laughed if it wasn’t so exasperating.
“Not what?” The question sounded
strained. He swallowed, his Adam’s apple bobbing in his throat.
Ally planned every beat of her next
move because she wanted to catch him off guard, wanted to see the heat flare in
his eyes, wanted to elicit a reaction without giving him time to think.
Crooking a finger as if she was going
to tell him a secret, she whispered, “I’m confused, and I need to tell you...”
He leaned in. She went closer. And closer still, exhaling softly near his ear.
When she heard the sharp exhale of his breath, a spike of joy shot through her
because it helped cement the truth of what she was about to say. “You don’t
look at me like you think I’m a kid.” Then she kissed him.
***
THE WORDS SHE spoke didn’t even
penetrate Tag’s brain, or maybe he wouldn’t let them. But that thought would
only occur to him later, because the sweetest lips he’d ever tasted were moving
over his and he couldn’t think past how incredibly good it felt. And right
and... He twined one hand into her hair right next to her scalp, the other he
curled around her shoulder so he could deepen the kiss.
He coaxed her lips apart, and she
seemed to melt into him, her fingers digging into his shoulders. He groaned.
She responded with a soft little moan of her own, unleashing a not-quite-identifiable
emotion inside him. Almost like fury, but not quite, because while the air was
charged around them, there was a lightness inside his chest. And he realized
that he never wanted to let go. Pulling her closer, adjusting so that more of
her body pressed against his, he moved his mouth over hers, fitting it closer
because he couldn’t seem to get enough...
He had no idea how much time had
passed when she pulled away, just enough so that her mouth still hovered over
his. She was breathing as hard as he was, and after a few seconds, her raspy
chuckle worked into him like a caress. He would have kissed her again, but she
was talking...
It took a moment for her next words to
compute. “Stop worrying about my age and tell me how you really feel.”
Bees were swarming through his
thoughts. Slowly he tuned out the buzzing and focused on her lazy-lidded eyes
and swollen lips. Ally. So, so beautiful. Wayward strands of her silky black
hair stirred in the breeze. She looked thoroughly...kissed. No, it was worse
than that. A sick feeling rushed in, dousing the heat that had been muddling
his brain only seconds before. What had he done?
“Ally, we...” We what? Not we, I. How
could he make things right? Apologize? She’d kissed him, yes, but he’d let her.
He’d more than let her; he’d kissed her back without an ounce of restraint and
precious little self-control. And that wasn’t like him. He’d never lost his
mind quite like this before, not even back in high school when he was young and
reckless and...and she made him feel things he’d never felt before.
Languid brown eyes stared back at him
without any regret or hesitation reflected there. Which made him feel about a
million times worse.
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