The Renegades: Nick (21 page)

THE LAST THING HE EVER EXPECTED TO DO WAS TO KISS HER.

All Nick had wanted was for Callie not to get hurt when she fell off that crazy mare, not to get trampled or killed. But as he caught her in mid-air and felt the sweet weight of her in his arms, he instantly turned greedy for more.

There she was, still wild-eyed with fear, gasping with relief, her luscious lips parted and her breasts rising and falling against his chest with her hard breathing. Then she buried her face in his neck.

“Oh, thank God,” she said, her lips hot against his skin. “I thought … I’d die … before I could get to you.”

The words wrapped themselves around Nick’s heart. He crushed her closer, and, still struggling for breath, she lifted her face and looked at him as if he were the most wonderful thing she’d ever seen.

“Callie,” he said, ‘You have got to learn to ride.”

Then he kissed her, long and hard.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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