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JAMES BRAVO’S SHOTGUN BRIDE,
the latest chapter in
THE BRAVOS OF JUSTICE CREEK.
James came closer and guided a few strands of hair out of her eyes. She gazed up at him, thinking how good it felt to be close to him, how great they got along. More than once in the past few days, she almost forgot that by the end of May, they wouldn’t be married anymore. “Where’s Carm?”
“I think she’s saying goodbye to your grandfather.” With a sweet brush of his finger, he traced her eyebrows and then the shape of her nose, thrilling her with those simple, silly caresses, and then sliding his warm fingers back under her hair to cradle the nape of her neck.
“What are you up to now?” Addie tried to sound suspicious, but somehow it came out all breathless and hopeful.
“I’m off to work for the rest of the day. Any reason I shouldn’t kiss my wife goodbye?”
“No reason at all.” She lifted her lips to him and he settled his wonderful mouth over hers.
Time and reality faded off into nothing. There was only the two of them in that hazy, hot, beautiful place they went to whenever they touched.
Oh, she had a mad and crazy crush on him. She kept trying to remember all the reasons they shouldn’t get too close, all the ways love and romance never had worked out for her.
But somehow, when he touched her, when he kissed her, whenever he was near, she forgot her bad track record with the male gender, forgot how, after the last time two years ago with Donnie Jacobs, who had sworn that he loved her and wanted forever with her one night and then told her the next night that they were through, she’d finally accepted that romance was just a bad idea for her. She took love way too seriously and she always ended up with her heart cut to ribbons.
She and James should probably talk about that, about how they had to watch themselves, not let things get too intense. They both needed to remember that this wasn’t forever.
But then again, just because she kept forgetting that this wasn’t the real thing, that didn’t mean he was having any problem keeping his grip on reality.
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JAMES BRAVO’S SHOTGUN BRIDE by New York Times bestselling author Christine Rimmer,
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Copyright © 2016 by Christine Rimmer