Interlude in Pearl

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An Excerpt From: INTERLUDE IN PEARL

Copyright © EMILY RYAN-DAVIS, 2010

All Rights Reserved, Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.

Chapter One

Pearl, Colorado

Autumn 1869

The tall, broad man standing on her back porch didn´t remove his hat. He braced his hand, callused and rough, against the frame above her head and said her name. "Miss Emma."

Emma Morgan knew the words he hadn´t spoken. Beneath her flannel gown, her nipples tightened to hard peaks. His voice did that to her body every time, stroking her skin, slow and firm, as if it had every right to touch her. He´d never once offered for her hand in marriage. He had no rights in her bed. She welcomed him into it anyway. Most times. Tonight...

She inhaled, exhaled a sigh. He smelled like coffee and wood smoke. He´d probably spent the better part of the night beside a campfire. Unfortunately for both of them, she´d have to send him back to the campsite instead of inviting him inside. Her throat closed around a lump of disappointment. She´d rather keep him through what remained of the night and take him through two or three climaxes. Instead of stepping aside to grant him entrance, she studied his tall frame.

Mickey Lowe, foreman of Ethan Carver´s ranch, dressed for cowboy duty. He wore a thick sheepskin coat over his flannel plaid shirt and his denim pants were stiff, good-quality cotton despite the dirt that would never come out of them. Mouth dry, she studied the open collar of his shirt, the curl of dark hair that she would have mistaken for a trick of the shadows if she hadn´t known his body so well. His nipples wouldn´t be as hard as hers. They didn´t respond to the idea of her touch the way her body responded to the idea of his. She could coax them however, first with her mouth, later with the curves of her bottom as she sat atop his chest and teased him with the scent of her arousal. She so enjoyed the heavy-lidded sight of his eyes as she rubbed her spread pussy on his skin before rising over his hungry mouth, opening to his wonderfully strong tongue.