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Starla Kaye
Blushing Books
Category:
Romance
Publisher: ABCD Graphics and Design, Inc
ISBN-10: 1935152149
Type: Fiction
Pages: 136
Copyright: July 24, 2008
ISBN-13: 9781935152149
Price: $4.95 (eBook)
An erotic historical Western romance novel with adult content.
Caitlan Curran MacDonnell's life is a disaster. Forced into marriage at eighteen to a man she never met, at twenty-one she's told the marriage is to be annuled. Only problem: Now her brother wants to force her to marry someone else. She's had enough. She has dreams of her own and they don't include an enormous handsome Scot OR a disgusting old man. It's time to find her "husband" from whom she was separated after her wedding night and get on with her life. Just when Mac is getting on with HIS life, his sassy young bride shows up. He'd been told she'd died, yet there she is, willful and independent as ever, demanding an annulment so she can go off to San Fransisco to be a photographer. That might be want she WANTS, but what she needs is a man to keep her in line. And Mac MacDonnell knows someone who will fill the bill nicely...
Excerpt
Caitlin moved slowly closer to the tall, powerfully-built man with shoulder-length mahogany hair soon to become her husband. From the instant he’d spotted her in the doorway, she had sensed his bitterness. Oh, she had seen a brief flash of male lust. Since her body had matured toward womanhood this last year, she had witnessed such a look on other men’s faces many times. That look had typically repulsed her, as well as the way the men had acted so sickeningly complimentary. But with Mac MacDonell’s annoyed look of appreciation in his mossy green eyes, she had felt a momentary flutter of pleasure. Then his handsomely carved face tightened and his entire body stiffened. If she’d held even a slight hope that this arranged marriage would one day work out, it vanished with his disapproving glower. Not that she was happy about the situation, either, thank you very much.
She released her father’s arm and stepped, chin raised high, beside her solemn bridegroom. She would never let him know that even for an instant she’d experienced her first real stirrings of physical yearning for a man. It was clear he didn’t want her. She was determined to feel the same way. And she despised her father and Mac’s father even more for making them do this.
Interrupting her thoughts, Mac bent down enough that he could loudly whisper, “’Tis naught right what we do today, lass. Ye know it as well as I do.”
Her stomach quivered at the deep, husky Scottish burr. She fought back the urge to rub at the nerves tingling now in her abdomen. “Nevertheless it will happen. Neither of us have a choice in this matter.” She met his gaze, not the least bit intimidated by his scowl. Still, she understood his aggravation, his helplessness. They were both being used by their families. “For now, we’ll have to make the best of the situation. But one day we will end this difficult situation. I promise you that.”
He looked surprised by her statement, and then gave a curt nod. “I’ll be holding ye to your word, Lass.”
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Mac had watched Caitlin climb the stairs before him. She was a tiny lass compared to such a massive man as he. Young, too. While only ten years separated them, when it came to knowing the intimate ways between a man and a woman, he felt that decades separated them. He shouldn’t be planning on taking her to his bed, taking her innocence. That rightfully belonged to a man who would truly love her as she deserved. He did not, could not love her. Everything he’d believed in and cherished had changed this day.
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