by Keri Ford
Uninhibited in Apple Trail, Arkansas, Book Two (ebook)
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If Shellie Chambers has to hear one more condescending comment from her mother about life or men, she might scream. She packs up and takes a trip to see her long-missed high school friend, Riley. He’ll know exactly what she needs to loosen up. But instead of the girl-chasing jock she remembers from their youth, Riley’s gone country, keeping up a farm of his own.
Riley Hamilton has settled down on a farm his uncle left to him. Not the life he ever envisioned, but after getting a girl pregnant in college and then watching helplessly as the baby was aborted, he learned the hard way it was time to settle down. Shellie’s reentry into his life reminds of his wild past and it’s a fight to ignore the tempting woman Shellie has become.
Excerpt:
Riley picked a piece of grass off her forehead. “So what’s next?”
“Oh, I don’t know. I’m thinking of something crazy right now I’ve only done once before.”
“Sounds like a good idea.”
She grinned, her hands slid up his arms. “Oh, I think it is the best idea ever.”
“What then?”
The corner of her lips kicked up. Her blue eyes that he could have sworn had not changed over the years, seemed to do just that and darken. She wound her hands around his neck and pulled him down. Her lips touched his and he didn’t move. Oh, God. Yes, they had done this one painfully awkward time before. To this day he still couldn’t explain what had come over him that had him lean over and kiss her. When she’d stiffened, he quickly realized his error and pulled back.
She smiled against him. “I’ve never forgotten that one quick kiss you gave me in high school. I think I acted then like you are now. Stunned.”
“I shouldn’t have kissed you.” His lips brushed hers as he spoke. Because she still had him pulled down, of course, not because he wasn’t pulling his own body off hers.
“And now?” Her heart beat against his chest. Her hands that had been tangling in his hair were still.
He cupped the back of her head. To get her out of the mud and cold water. Wouldn’t want her getting sick. “I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t be kissing you now.”
She blinked. Her eyelids slowly lowered and lifted again as a complete temptress. “Then why don’t you get off me?”
She didn’t say it in anger or irritation. It was more matter of fact, stating the obvious. He knew it, she knew it. He couldn’t keep making lame shit up to tell himself. “Because you feel too damn good underneath me.”
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