Undeniable (38 page)

Why it always had. “Look. Can we talk about this later? I’ve actually got work to do here.”

She wasn’t any more keen on calling the Harts now than she’d been before Casper barged in. In fact, having to turn down his money request made her feel even worse about giving the family their bad news.

But she was too close to making a mistake here. She knew that. She couldn’t think when he was around. She knew that, too. And so she waited for him to go.

A wait made in vain.

He hadn’t moved, hadn’t turned so much as his gaze away—as if he were looking for, waiting for that sign. “Later when?”

His voice, when it came, was gruff and demanding, and it was all she could do to breathe.
Be careful what you ask for, Faith Mitchell.
“I’m coming out to the ranch tonight to go over our parents’ anniversary party plans with Boone. Will that work for your very busy schedule?”

“I’ll be there,” he said, and then he strode out of her office, and it took her a very long time to get back to work and stop thinking about his thighs.

A native Texan,
Alison Kent
loves her cowboys and is thrilled to be writing about them for Berkley Heat. She is also the author of more than forty contemporary and action adventure romances, and
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Erotic Romance.

If there’s a better career to be had, she doesn’t want to know about it, as writing from her backyard is the best way she’s found to convince her pack of rescue dogs they have her full attention. Alison lives near Houston with her petroleum geologist husband, where every year she fights the heat to grow tomatoes, and spends way too much time managing a feral cat colony.

You can find her online at alisonkent.com, on Twitter at twitter.com/alisonkent, and on Facebook at facebook.com/author.alisonkent.