‘You’re protected right here, I promise you that.’ He reached out and gave her arm a reassuring squeeze. ‘I’m undecided what introduced you right here, to Riverside Acres, whether or not it was destiny or accidentally, or in case you have been working from somebody, or one thing, or each, however I hope you already know that so long as you might be right here, I’ll be sure you’re taken care of. At all times.’

She cleared the gathering emotion from her throat, simply sufficient to have the ability to communicate. ‘Thanks, I recognize that.’

You’re essentially the most stunning soul I’ve ever met, Jarrah King …

Right here she was, attempting to journey him up, and right here he was, taking the utmost care of her. Drawing in a fast breath, she bit her backside lip to cease from crying. There was one thing so robust, so stable, about him that made her consider she might actually belief him. And he or she wished to, with all her coronary heart, however the niggle that he knew one thing about her letter wouldn’t cease.

‘Millie.’ His robust hand got here to her cheek and he gently guided her eyes to his. ‘I’ve bought you.’

And by god he did. With their eyes locked onto each other’s, she felt one other fragment of him land inside her coronary heart, including to what she already held there for him, and him alone. His transcendent aura helped to pacify her racing pulse, and for a couple of heart-stopping, breathless seconds, she thought he was going to lean in and kiss her. Once more. Similar to he had the evening of the rodeo. When one factor had led to a different. They usually’d made the sweetest, wildest, most ravenous love she’d ever skilled. Oh, how she wished to be led down that path with him once more, to reach in that land of euphoria he so skilfully introduced her to.

Even when it was for only one final time.

However then his hand dropped from her cheek and he stepped again a bit of, as if stopping himself from following by way of on all the things his gaze had simply revealed to her. Despite the fact that she was grateful for his self-control, provided that hers was lacking in motion, she felt the burden of disappointment settle in her abdomen. Rattling it. She preferred him. Rather a lot. Means an excessive amount of. She needed to get a grip and cease appearing like some lustful girl, falling headfirst for some sexy-as-hell cowboy who was method too type, method too considerate, method too mesmeric, simply method an excessive amount of to be actual. There needed to be a catch. There needed to be a crimson flag. There needed to be one thing she was lacking. Males like Jarrah King didn’t exist. He was enjoying her. He was in on no matter scheme had introduced her right here to Riverside Acres, to him.

***

Don’t do it, King, don’t kiss her. Simply don’t!

It was all Jarrah had been in a position to suppose when Millie peered up at him with a flood of need and want in her enthralling gaze. All he’d recognized in that breath-stopping second was that she wanted to be kissed. She wanted to be cherished. And solely by him. However he couldn’t, wouldn’t, complicate issues once more. When he pressured himself to step away from her, and the fact of Tommy probably following her actually hit him, his ideas had instantly modified course. Up till her arrival, he’d felt left alone, protected, and by some means free to maneuver on along with his life. However since she’d been there, issues had felt unsteady. Possibly that had all the things to do with Tommy’s deceitfulness, and nothing to do along with her. But when Tommy had been the one following her, there needed to be a cause for it. And one thing instructed him the explanation might have one thing to do with Carlo Martino. However what? Why her? Possibly he was simply being paranoid. Possibly her arrival was only a coincidence. Both method, he couldn’t danger her being caught up in no matter recreation Carlo and Tommy have been enjoying.

That had been an hour in the past, and now, sitting at her little eating desk, his stomach filled with her scrumptious cooking and his coronary heart filled with her charming presence, he shook his head at himself; it had been ridiculous to suppose she had something in any respect to do with Tommy’s deceit, or Carlo’s schemes. Simply watching the way in which her head tipped in laughter and her lips moved as she spoke to him, made his insides sizzle with warmth. And regardless that he was protecting his cool, his coronary heart pounded, as if attempting to interrupt freed from his rib cage, and he couldn’t cease the craving to lie along with her, to make like to her. Lord assist him, as a result of proper this very second all he wished to do was kiss her throughout, maintain her shut, get up along with her, then repeat.

Putting down her empty wine glass, she hiccupped, after which giggled. ‘Would you want one thing candy now that our dinner has gone down?’

You’re candy, Millie, can I’ve you, now that my dinner has gone down?

Jarrah’s breath caught at his wayward thought, and he needed to take a second to collect himself earlier than he dared open his mouth once more. For if he spoke proper this second, he’d inform her precisely what he wished to do to her, all evening lengthy. ‘Sounds good to me,’ he lastly mentioned.

‘Nice, I’ll seize our dessert out of the fridge.’ She stood. ‘Do you need to seize us a few plates, and a spoon every?’

‘On it.’ He hopped up from the place he’d been saddling his eating chair.

‘Oh, wowsers.’ Millie gripped the sting of the desk, all the color draining from her face. ‘I don’t know what’s come over me, however I really feel actually dizzy.’ Her knees buckled and he or she collapsed to the aspect.

Jarrah dived to her rescue. ‘Millie!’ Throughout the security of his arms, she grabbed maintain of his shirt, as if she was scared that he was going to let go of her.

‘It’s okay, I’ve bought you.’ Because of his years of driving bucking bulls and dealing with horses, Jarrah prided himself on the truth that his reflexes have been sharp. On this occasion, he was happy they’d come to good use, relieved to have caught her earlier than her head had hit the ground. ‘Right here, let me get you over to the sofa.’ Maintaining his arm wrapped round her, he carried her weight after which eased her down.

Laying her head again, she stretched out her legs. ‘I don’t know what simply occurred.’ She rubbed her eyes. ‘However it didn’t really feel good in any respect.’

‘I believe you fainted, so watch out in case you try to sit up,’ he cautioned. ‘You don’t need to make your self dizzy once more.’

‘That’s bizarre.’ She fastidiously propped herself up with some pillows. ‘I’ve by no means fainted earlier than.’

‘Possibly you’re dehydrated.’ He took steps in direction of the sink. ‘I’ll seize you some water.’

‘Okay, thanks.’ Her reply was a bit of hoarse.

He returned with a glass stuffed to the brim. ‘Right here, drink up.’ As he handed it to her, it splashed onto her leg.

‘Cheers for that.’ She chuckled. ‘However I need to drink it, not drown in it.’ She took the glass with each fingers, as if to regular it, earlier than taking little sips.

He adored how amid her vulnerability, she nonetheless had her spirited streak, and was about to inform her that when a loud, insistent knock on the door had him dashing to see who it was.

‘Tommy.’ His nephew’s brow-raised expression met him. ‘What’s up?’

‘I might ask you a similar factor.’ Rolling his shoulders, Tommy peered previous Jarrah and in direction of Millie. ‘I assumed it was towards the principles to be having intercourse with the workers?’

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