Sunday Smooch with Helen Lacey......

Welcome to another LoveCats DownUnder Sunday Smooch!


Today we have a smooch from The Cowgirl's Forever Family by Helen Lacey, but first 


... the winner of last week's Sunday Smooch Giveaway is Amy Hart!


Can you please contact Louisa George on louisageorgeauthor (at) gmail (dot) com to receive your copy of Something Borrowed .........


And now for today's Sunday Smooch from The Cowgirl's Forever Family by Helen Lacey........

One Week To Build A Happy-Ever-After?

The cowgirl: Brooke Laughton wants one thing: the family she can’t have. When a gorgeous man and a giggling baby girl step onto her Cedar River ranch, her dream comes true. Or so she hopes…

The city boy: Tyler Madden wants to find the baby’s unwitting birth father—Brooke’s missing brother—and fulfill a promise to the late mother. Then he can go back to his lucrative law practice. Or so he hopes…

 

But one little baby has a different agenda. Little Cara wants a family…and the lonely cowgirl and the commitment-phobic lawyer are just the mommy and daddy she needs! She’s got one week to show them what’s right in front of them. Desire. Love. And the promise of a forever family…

(Tyler and baby Cara have been living at Brooke's ranch for several days. They are in the living room, and he is opening up about his personal life - something he never does. Then he explains about his own adoption and the emancipation from his parents when he was sixteen)

 

Brooke felt his pain in his words right through to her bones and she reached out, grasping his biceps. “They must know you didn’t mean it.”

He nodded fractionally. “But I meant it at the time.”

 

“You were young and overwhelmed by a lot of mixed emotions. And I can’t imagine they’d be anything other than very proud of the man you have become. And they are part of that,” she said, feeling the muscles beneath her palm clench. “They raised you, nurtured you, instilled the moral compass and integrity you possess by the bucketload…how could they be anything but proud?”

 

He looked down to where her hand lay and covered her hand with his own, linking their fingers in a way that was impossibly intimate. Palm to palm, Brooke felt the connection through her entire body. She met his eyes, saw his gaze move over her face and then focus on her mouth. Her lips parted instinctively and she sucked in a shallow breath. This energy had been building between them for days, brewing like an electrical storm. And Brooke wanted his kiss more than she had ever wanted anything or anyone in her life.

*

Tyler had enough experience with women to know that he was about to step into another reality with Brooke. Talking with her had unlocked something inside him…old feelings…old regrets…and made him admit things he’d never said to anyone else, ever. Talking about his personal life had always been off-limits. Not even his closest friends back in New York knew much about his upbringing and his parents. But Brooke had the ability to draw it out of him without effort. She listened. She understood.

And he wanted her.

He wanted to feel her against him, breast to chest, hip to hip, thigh to thigh.

Reaching around, he cupped the back of her neck, tilting her head back slightly. Her lips were apart, inviting him, and he bent his head and touched them with his own. Sensation rocked through him, climbing over his skin and through his blood. Her mouth opened beneath his and her free hand moved around his waist. She was close, pressing against him and he leaned in closer still. Finesse and resistance flew out the window as Tyler deepened the kiss, finding her tongue and rolling it around his own. She tasted so good, like raspberry soda and peppermints. And she was soft and luscious and her curves fit against him as though they were two halves of the same whole.

The kiss went on, deeper, harder, then softer, asking not taking. She didn’t pull back. She kept pace with him each time he angled her head, each time he pressed closer, each time he moved his tongue against hers in an erotic slide that fueled his libido like a drug.

Finally, Tyler pulled back, breaking the kiss, staring into her upturned face.

She was all indigo eyes, all raspy breath. Her chest rose up and down, emphasizing her full breasts and his palms itched to touch her there, to peel off her clothes and lay her bare so he could worship her breasts with his hands and mouth. And more. So he could make love to every inch of her, discovering what she liked, what would make her quiver, what would make her say his name on a sigh as she came apart in his arms.

 

“I want you,” he said, breathless, keeping her close, trailing his mouth down her cheek to her jaw and then the sensitive skin below her ear. He pulled back again and met her gaze. "So much."

I love throwing city-boy heroes into the country. Do you have a favorite setting you like to see heroes thrown into to? Leave a comment to go into the draw to win a signed copy of The Cowgirl's Forever Family.

The Cowgirl's Forever Family is a September release from Harlequin Special Edition
 

Come back next Sunday, when the winner of today's giveaway will be announced and another smooch will be posted!

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