Kimberly Terry - To Have a Wilde

Hawaii has a brand-new cowboy bachelor

No one knows the truth about Keanu Kealoha’s family history, and he intends to keep it that way. But Keanu’s world explodes when the reclusive rancher allows a visiting production company to film his life. Suddenly he and his twin brother are TV’s hottest new bachelors. However, Keanu’s celebrity could end as quickly as it began if he gives in to his desire for Sonia Brandon, the show’s sophisticated and sexy producer.

As the force behind reality television’s latest hit, Sonia knows the sky’s the limit. But her attraction to the Hawaiian bachelor could jeopardize everything…especially when Keanu’s shocking secret is aired before millions of viewers. With her feelings growing, Sonia is determined to prove that she didn’t betray him. But can the reality of their blossoming relationship overcome the secrets of the past?Hawaii has a brand-new cowboy bachelor.

The feel of her small body wrapped around him eradicated every thought from his mind. The reason for the deceit, the very fact that he was deceiving her and had no intention of allowing the show to continue—everything wiped out. Clean.

Hell, he would have a hard time remembering his own name he was so stunned by her reaction.

Without conscious thought or will he drew back and lifted her face, forcing her chin up and making her look at him.

“And I think it’s time we drop the formality. My name is Keanu. Friends call me Key,” he said, brushing a finger beneath her chin and tilting her face farther up so he could see her eyes.

Her throat constricted as she swallowed, biting her lower lip in obvious nervousness, a gesture he’d seen her do on more than one occasion. His eyes followed the trail of her small tongue.

“And can we be that?” she said, her voice husky. “Friends?”

“Yes,” he said, hearing the deepness in his own voice, but not giving a damn. “I think we can be that. At least,” he finished, his eyes locked on hers.

Her startled gaze was centered on him, and as he leaned down and brought their faces together, bringing their mouths into alignment, he slanted his mouth over hers.

KIMBERLY KAYE TERRY’s

love for reading romances began at an early age. Long into the night she would stay up with her night-light on until she reached “the end,” praying she wouldn’t be caught reading what her mother called “those” types of books. Often she would acquire her stash from beneath her mother’s bed. Ahem. To date she’s an award-winning author of seventeen novels in romance, paranormal romance and erotic romance, and has garnered acclaim for her work. She happily calls writing her full-time job…after chauffeuring around her teenage fashionista daughter, that is.

Kimberly has a bachelor’s degree in social work and a master’s degree in human relations and has held licenses in social work and mental health therapy in the United States and abroad. She and her daughter volunteer weekly at various social service agencies and she is a long-standing member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., a community-conscious organization. Kimberly is a naturalist and practices aromatherapy. She believes in embracing the powerful woman within each of us and meditates on a regular basis. Kimberly would love to hear from you. Visit her at www.kimberlykayeterry.com.

To Have a Wilde

Kimberly Kaye Terry

www.millsandboon.co.uk

Dear Reader,

I am thankful for the opportunity to bring to you the fourth book in my Wilde family saga, To Have a Wilde. Writing Keanu “Key” Kealoha and Sonia Brandon’s story has been an adventurous and wonderful ride for me! These two characters touched me in new ways, making me fall in love with their story even before I began to write it. Their story is emotional at times, comical at others, and at all times hot and sexy...just the way we like it! The fireworks between these two very strong-willed characters are ignited from the start, and the flames of passion are threaded throughout, until the smoking-hot ending. Key and Sonia took me from boardroom clashes to lazy days on the ranch, and to the bedroom, where the flames of heat and desire blazed even hotter. I truly hope you enjoy reading Sonia and Key’s story as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Thank you to everyone who has emailed me and told me how much you have enjoyed reading about my Wilde boys...and fussed at me for taking so long to write the next one. I hope To Have a Wilde makes up for it. As always, thank you for the support and love, and I will continue to do my best to write hot, sexy and exciting stories featuring alpha men and the women they love!

As always, be good, my wonderful readers. If not, be delicious in your naughty. Whichever works best for you. Whatever you do, keep it sexy. ;)

KKT

This book is dedicated to

my wonderful daughter, Hannah, aka “junior”...

you are simply the best; ’nuff said ;)

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 1

Shouldering an arm against the heavy wooden door to open it, the only thing on Keanu “Key” Kealoha’s mind after a grueling day wrestling, branding and working cattle was getting intimate with a warm, willing woman.

He ran a hand through his hair, spiking the longish inky-black strands over his head as he tiredly walked his horse into the massive stable. It was time for a damn haircut, he thought.

He dropped his hand from his head and allowed it to rest on the thick, corded-muscled back of the stallion as he strode farther inside with the animal.

Frustration with just about everything, hair included, was riding him as hard as he’d just ridden the horse. He gave the animal a consoling, swift pat.

But not nearly as hard as he wanted...scratch that, needed...to ride a woman. And not just any woman would do. The image of who he wanted beneath him rolled into his mind.

As if the thought had the right to take up residence in his mind. As though he’d given her the right.

As soon as the accompanying image entered his thoughts, Key growled low in his throat.

The mental images and thoughts pissed him off more than the past twenty-four hours had. And after the past twenty-four hours he’d had, he could do without them.

His mind still reeled, spinning the information over and over, thinking of what he’d learned...and how he would tell his brother.

He shook his head, blowing out a disgusted breath. He shelved that problem to another part of his brain for later contemplation.

He had enough on his plate as it was. There was no time to wonder how he was going to figure out how to deal with the skeleton in his family closet he’d recently discovered and what it meant for him and Nick.

Finding out what his mother had done was hard enough for him to swallow. The fact that he and Nick weren’t their father’s biological sons was something that hurt like hell. Not that he and Nick hadn’t always suspected they weren’t the biological sons of Alek Kealoha, the man who raised them.

But to see in black-and-white, in the form of his mother’s personal letters he’d found, which chronicled her life from the time she was a young woman to her death, and what he’d learned, was something else entirely.

He sighed. In actuality, it was something he and his brother had talked about for years, the suspicion that Alek wasn’t their natural father, but because they loved him unconditionally, they’d mutually agreed to shelve the discussion. Permanently.