Synopsis
When
Krista catches her boss doing the unthinkable, the only
thing she can do is run. Straight into the arms
of the eye-candy she’s
been trying not to flirt with on her lunch
break. But whose side is he
on?
Ryan’s
security firm is having a hard time getting off the
ground, and this may be just the job to help the company
out. But
pseudo-bounty hunter isn’t really what Pierce Securities
is trying to get a
name for. When he finds out their target is the
classy lady from the
park, all of Ryan’s senses go on high alert.
What do these men want with
her?
Krista
is forced into Ryan’s sanctuary in the woods, where she
realizes just how wild he is, but she doesn’t want to
tame him. He may
feel his methods of protection endangered her, but
without Krista in his life,
Ryan is
crazed.
This
is book #1 in the
Pierce Securities, a Romantic Suspense series by Anne
Conley, author of the
Stories of Serendipity and The Four
Winds.
Excerpt
“How cold
is it supposed to get?”
“Not too
cold. Fifties?”
“You
should have told me to bring more clothes.”
“I packed
some for you.” He grinned at her outraged
expression.
“You had
clothes for me and let me parade around in that blanket all
day?”
Flabbergasted, she watched heat creep into his face as he ducked
his head, his grin turning sheepish. “A guy can
hope.”
“Hope for
what?” Heart pounding, she saw the evidence of his attraction as he
avoided her gaze. Was he actually as attracted to her as she was to
him? Why all the avoidance then? It would certainly make
their time together pass faster. At least less awkwardly.
“Hope for what, Ryan?”
He looked
up at her, the flush in his face making his complexion look ruddy.
Hot as hell. She couldn’t stop herself. Krista had never
thrown herself at a man the way she was compelled to do with Ryan, but the way
he looked at her—like he could devour her any second—made any semblance of
decorum fly out the window… er… shelter.
Licking
her lips, she watched as Ryan froze, every muscle in his body tensing
up. There wasn’t much space between them, but she closed it as she
crawled into his lap, feeling a devilish grin on her face. She could
feel his arousal press against her core, and she automatically ground against
it, eliciting a moan from him.
She’d
never been this way with a man before. His hands came up to grip her
hips, as if to stop her, but his eyes told her to keep going. He
looked helpless to stop his desires and seemed on the verge of giving in to
them.
“Hope for
what, Ryan?” she repeated in a whisper before leaning forward. She
knew he wanted this almost as badly as she did.
“Don’t…”
he breathed at her, leaning his forehead against
hers.
Her pussy
was so hot and wet; she couldn’t believe he was stopping. He was hard
and ready. She rocked against him to
illustrate.
“Don’t
what? You want this, don’t you?” A shot of sobering
indecisiveness rankled her. “Or is this all one-sided?” She
backpedaled, crawling out of his lap and onto her pile of
leaves.
“Fuck,”
Ryan muttered under his breath. “Of course I want it,
Krista. Like nothing I’ve ever wanted before.” His voice
was hoarse and gritty. He adjusted the bulge in his pants, but didn’t
come any closer, and Krista felt the sting of rejection all over again.
“You’re fucking beautiful. And classy. And
perfect.” He let out a whoosh of air she felt across the
shelter. “But I know that if we do anything, I’ll want to spend every
day buried inside that sweet pussy and I won’t be able to protect you with a
distraction like that.” He stood, ducking in the low-ceilinged
structure. “I need to protect you.”
Without another word, he stalked out of the structure, into the
rain.
Krista
shivered in the sudden cold of the shelter. The temperature hadn’t
dropped physically, but the absence of Ryan left a definite chill against her
heated skin. What the fuck had just happened? She had no
doubt he wanted her.
About the
Author
Anne has
written her entire life and has the boxes of angst-filled
journals and poetry
to prove it. She's been writing for public consumption
for the last four years.
Currently she is writing three romance series. In Stories
of Serendipity, she
explores real people living real lives in small town
Texas in a contemporary
romance setting. In The Four Winds, she chronicles God's
four closest
archangels, Uriel, Gabriel, Raphael, and Michael, falling
in love and becoming
human. In Pierce Securities, she gives us Ryan, Evan,
Miriam, Zack, Quinten,
and Simon. She lives in rural East Texas with her husband
and children in her
own private oasis, where she prides herself in her
complete lack of social
skills, choosing instead to live with the people inside
her head.
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