Stella Bagwell - The Missing Maitland

“Aren’t you going to tie me up?” she called out to him. “Or guard the door to make sure I don’t slip off in the night?”

From somewhere in the other room, his low voice came back at her. “We both know you’re not going anywhere.”

“How can you be so sure?” she asked, each word coated with sweetness.

She heard the springs in the couch creak from his weight, and when he spoke again, his voice sounded as though he was bent over. “Because you have no idea in hell where you are or how to get out of this place. Added to that, you’re too soft to try an escape on foot and I have the keys to the truck.”

Turning slightly, she carefully felt over the top of the mattress. The way her luck was running there’d be a rat’s nest or rattlesnake coiled up beneath the covers. But she couldn’t worry about either. She had two choices: climb onto the bed or sleep on the floor.

“How do you know I can’t hot-wire a vehicle?” she persisted.

She heard a thunk and realized he’d been unlacing and removing his boots. Apparently he planned on getting comfortable.

Unconsciously, her hand went to the buttons on her blouse. It would be heaven to undress, she thought. But to lie in here naked with him only a few steps away in the next room would be indecent and all too risky.

His voice suddenly interrupted her thoughts. “Because if you really did have that talent, you wouldn’t have been stupid enough to mention it. And don’t bother to get up in the night and start poking around for the keys,” he added. “I have them on me. And I think you know better than to risk getting that close to me again.”

Oh, yes, Blossom knew better. But at this very moment, getting close to the man was all she could think about. The physical attraction she felt for him was insane and certainly unexplainable. Yet she wanted to make love to him. Even more than she wanted to go home.

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