Temptation In Texas: Mike and Megan (4 page)

Under the Cowboy's Control

Selena Taylor is an American citizen
determined to find her grandparents after she loses her family to
the violence of the drug cartel in Mexico. Crossing the border into
Texas turns out to be the easy part. Virtually penniless and
enticingly innocent, she soon finds herself at the mercy of Travis
Blake. Travis is a hard-working, self-made rancher who has never
known love or softness of any kind. His only use for women is
sexual, and Selena is caught on his ranch with no way out .While
Selena plots her escape from his control, Travis ruthlessly and
methodically tightens his possession and makes it impossible for
her to leave. The struggle that follows is a clash of wills that
pits purity against passion, virtue against vice and love against
lust.

Excerpt:

“I specifically told you to stay away from
the men and stay at the house. In fact, I’ve told you more than
once.” He ate, standing up, and scrunched up the bag when he was
finished. “You got anything to say to me? Anything in your
defense?”

“Am I on tri—trial?”

“Yeah, you’re on trial. And I’m the only
judge you’re going to get. No jury of your peers. Just me. My
decision. Got that?” His voice rose.

Selena took a step back from him. “What’s
wrong w-with you? How can you b-be so nice and then s-so mean?”

He stalked toward her. “Really?” He reached
down and swiped her wrist and held it tightly in his grip. “Really?
You don’t get it yet? You haven’t quite figured it out? I told you
what happens when a man wants something he can’t have. Have you
forgotten so soon? Are you saying I can have it? Are you? I tell
you what, Angel, you let me take you back to the house, strip you
naked every night. You sleep in my bed, and we’ll see just how nice
I can be.” He slammed his mouth down on hers. His tongue went deep,
tasting her sweetness. He pulled her into his body, his erection
straining against her. He lifted his mouth from hers. His hand went
to the back of her head and grabbed hold of her hair and pulled
until her eyes were on his.

His face was menacing, his hold on her
uncompromising. He fisted his hand in her hair until she was
completely captive. His other hand went to her neck and felt her
racing heartbeat. His hand roamed down and settled on her breast.
Her flesh swelled against his palm, her nipple hardening. His thumb
moved back and forth across the tight little pebble.

They stood there, panting together. His
touch gentled, and his words became beguiling. “Come on, Baby. You
don’t want to be a virgin forever, do you?” His mouth lowered and
he took a gentle kiss from her parted lips. “I can make it good for
you. You don’t need to be scared. I won’t hurt you. It won’t hurt
at all.”

She pulled away from him, accusation in her
eyes.

He stood in front of her, blatant
masculinity dripping from his pores. He had a dominant nature, and
she felt its intensity now.

His eyes were riveted on her, his nostrils
flaring. Goddammit! He had sworn to himself that he wasn’t going to
try to seduce her, and then he had gone and done just that. “Shit.”
He turned away and dug his cell phone from his pocket, flipped it
open and pressed a button. He spoke into the phone. “Yeah, get back
here and take her back to the house.”

He ended the call and
slipped the phone back into his pocket. “I’m not going to
apologize. You’re playing with fire and you know it. You better
watch out, little girl,
because you’re
going to get burned. I want you to get back to that house and stay
there. You can go to the barn and see those damn skunks, but that’s
it. Nowhere else. You stay away from the men.” He grabbed her chin
in his hand and lifted. “And when you get back to the house, you
better make me something real sweet for dessert, because I want
something for all the goddamn trouble you’re causing
me.”

The Sheriff and the Innocent Housekeeper

When Becky Hamilton is orphaned at the
tender age of fourteen, she comes to live with her aunt in Waco and
begins work cooking and cleaning for the town’s brooding young
sheriff. Mesmerized immediately with his raw masculinity and sinewy
strength, her fascination turns to love as the years pass and his
honest integrity is revealed. Jake Cooper manages to ignore his
pretty, little orphaned housekeeper for three long years. But when
she begins a subtle metamorphosis from girl to woman, he can’t
control his consuming need for her any longer. It has been his job
to protect the town all these years, but who will protect her from
him?