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Filthy dirty or clean.
Slim or curvy.
Scars or no scars.
She was the most desirable female I’d ever met.
There was no limit to the ways she could get my dick hard.
Sometimes I wanted to be inside her gorgeous body so badly that I could hardly breathe.
Mine!
Savannah was mine.
She was always supposed to be mine.
I could feel it with every breath I took, every second I was close to her.
She was the one who was always missing for me.
The one I’d been pining for in a crowded room.
I wanted to claim her elementally like a goddamn caveman and drag her off to my lair.
It had just taken me too damn long to realize it.
I tried not to think about what might have happened if I’d wised up years ago…
“Do you?” she said in breathy whisper that made my cock ache.
Okay, I’d gotten a little distracted. “Do I what?”
“Have a thing for women in mud boots?”
Not really. It was pretty much just…her. “I might,” I answered noncommittally. “Now tell me exactly why you can’t do what you want in your career. I think the risk is probably worth taking. You’re not happy. Not to mention the fact thatDeadline Americanearly got you killed.”
“I accept the dangers in every assignment,” she said nonchalantly. “It’s part of the job. You always know somethingcouldhappen, but honestly, I’ve been in more dangerous places than Bajo Chiquito and everything was fine. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe I’m just afraid that I’ll fail if I try to sell written stories. Not to mention the fact that I make pretty decent money in my current job. I’d be starting all over again, Chase. I’ll have to think about it some more.”
If money was one of her worries, I could alleviate that in a heartbeat. “What if money wasn’t an issue?” I asked.
She shot me a small smile. “Money isalwaysan issue for most people, Chase. I don’t have a backup. I have to make a decent living. California isn’t cheap. I could probably hold off on buying a house until I see how things go. I could rent a condo or a small place. I don’t need a lot of space to write.”
“Or…you could just hang out where you are for as long as it takes to get a new career going. You said it was no hardship to live with me,” I reminded her.
She let out a stunned laugh. “Oh, my God. I said it’s no hardship forme.I hardly think you want a semi-permanent houseguest, and I’m not exactly broke. Having a live-in female would be really hard on your love life, and Torie is getting a little impatient about nieces and nephews. I think she’s about to give up hope of ever marrying off either of her older brothers.”
“She’s married. She can have her own kids,” I grumbled. “And I already told you that I’m not seeing anyone.”
“Things could change,” she answered gently. “You’ve already done more for me than anyone ever has in my entire life, Chase, and I don’t just mean monetarily. Regardless of the circumstances, this has been the happiest week of my life. It’s made me realize just how buried I’ve been into my job, and how much I’ve been missing. I can never thank you enough.”
Hell, the last thing I wanted was for her to thank me.
“Don’t thank me,” I insisted. “I told you I needed the same thing. It’s been good for me. This is the happiest I’ve ever been, too. That offer is always going to stay open, Vanna. I want you to be happy. In the meantime, you still have healing to do. How do you feel after being on a horse half the day?”
I tried to make sure that the stables gave her a plodder with absolutely no enthusiasm to get up and go because her ribs and shoulder were still healing. But she’d seemed to enjoy herself anyway.
“I feel amazing,” she said enthusiastically. “The outdoors definitely agrees with me, but I’ll probably hurt in places I didn’t before when I wake up tomorrow. It’s been a while since I’ve been on a horse. Nothing some ibuprofen won’t take care of, though. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.”
