Waters Run Deep (32 page)

“Then you’ll understand when I’m as difficult.”

He twined a curl around his finger. “We are much alike.”

She rubbed a finger over his bottom lip. “We are. So it might get…passionate at times. I’m stubborn.”

He tugged her T-shirt from the waistband of her jeans. Sliding his hands over her tight stomach, up her ribs to just under her breast. She gasped, her eyes widening, as he murmured, “I’m planning on passion. Lots and lots of passion.”

She watched his mouth. Hungrily. “Oh, good. That’s a nice side benefit of being in a partnership.”

He couldn’t stop the smile at his lips. “You’ve made me a very happy man, you know that?”

“I hope you still feel that way next week.”

He lowered his mouth and kissed her. She tasted like toothpaste and sweet, sweet Annie. She rose on her toes and wrapped her arms around him. Fireworks went off and he knew this was what had been intended for him.

“Anna, I will forever be a happy man because you chose me with both your heart and mind.”

“Call me Annie. My mother always called me that, and I like who I am as Annie.” She looked up at him. “Besides, my body chose you long ago.”

He chuckled. “Yeah, our bodies knew exactly what was right for us, so let’s go to my room and give them an opportunity to have their way again.”

She smiled. “You don’t want to work on cases? Get our new business, Mendes and her Wolf Investigations, off on the right foot?”

He gave her a smoldering look, the only wolfish one he had in his arsenal, and then snatched her hard against his body. “I’d rather play the big, bad wolf and you can be Little Red Riding Hood.”

She slid her hands around to his ass and wiggled against him. He couldn’t stop the groan or the surge of hot liquid pouring into him, heating him. She peeked up. “Okay, but I refuse to tell you how big your…um…teeth are.”

“You’re definitely suited for me. Too much alike.”

She turned and pulled him toward the back of the house. She didn’t know where she was going, but it didn’t seem to matter. “I know one way we are way different. I’m a woman. And you’re a man.”

“You are a good detective.”

She laughed and pure joy flooded his soul. “Yeah, but I’m going to need to rediscover those difference for myself.”

“Lead on, partner.”

* * * * *

Look for Abram’s story,

UNDER THE AUTUMN SKY,

book two of THE BOYS OF BAYOU BRIDGE series.

Available in July 2012 wherever

Harlequin Superromance books are sold.

ISBN: 9781459227736

Copyright © 2012 by Amy R. Talley

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