Reckless Destiny (26 page)
Not every order, of course.
With thanks to Stephanie Westphal
for putting a finer point on the writing,
Barbara Joel for helping me
find the emotion in my characters,
and Barbara Ankrum for always asking why.
SHE WAS A TEMPTATION
A SAINT WOULD HAVE TROUBLE RESISTING.
AND HE WAS NO SAINT.
“You have no idea what kind of danger you’re in now that I’ve found you.”
“You wouldn’t hurt me.” She knew that as surely as she knew her next breath would be filled with the heady scent of man and leather and desert and rain that all mixed together to become Kane.
“I can hurt you in ways you can’t even imagine.”
She shook her head. “You’re wrong, Kane. Why are you so hard on yourself? I trust you.”
She wanted to be with him and love him, more than she’d ever thought possible. This was right. She knew it in her heart.
She was Kane Carrington’s woman and somehow she knew she always would be.
This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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