Swift Antelope, I don’t think she even likes you.Your yellow-hair doesn’t like you too well, either.He had a point.
Still studying her with the same unnerving intensity, he said, When the wind blows, the sapling bends, the flowers lie low against the earth, the grass is flattened. He thumped his chest with his fist...
Stay back! she cried.I come. Choose your mark, Blue Eyes, and drive the blade deep. You have one strike. When he was within arm’s reach of her, she made a lunge, arcing the knife at his chest. Hunter...
Stand, Blue Eyes, he told her gently.She tipped her head back. Tears shimmered on her cheeks. I’ll do anything, Hunter. I’ll serve you on my knees. I’ll be your loyal slave forever. I’ll kiss the grou...
Someone must preserve the ways of the People, Warrior rasped, someone who will sing our songs and teach our ways. Unless you do that, all that we are will be lost. You must go get your woman and take...
Sleep, This last time, at my side.
She was a slightly built woman, narrow of hip. He was not a small man.
She stared at Hunter; he stared at the doorway. When at last he looked at her, his eyes churned darkly with emotion. He returned to his pallet and sat down, legs crossed at the ankles in front of him....
She heard the coyote again. I’m going. He’s out there calling me, and I’m going.
Seeing that he was about to leave, Loretta worked one arm loose to touch his shoulder as he stepped around them. Their eyes locked. Pausing midstride, he touched his hand to her cheek. Once again Lore...
Sammantha: Tucker?Tucker: Does some other man call at this hour just to hear your voice? If so, give me his name, and I'll kill him.
Red Buffalo emerged from the darkness, leading his favorite war pony. Loretta and Hunter, arms looped around one another, turned to face him. When Red Buffalo reached Loretta, he grasped her hand and...
Parker: When can you start?Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you'd like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas.Parker: Ah. It figures that there'd be a man in the pict...
Over the course of the day, he revealed to her a boyish, mischievous side that she found enchanting. One moment he played the lover, sliding his fingers lightly across the nape of her neck or down her...
Now you will show this Comanche how good you play number one fiddle, yes?I-- Loretta’s mouth went as dry as dust as she tripped along beside him, her arm vised in his grip. Surely you don’t mean right...
No brave he knew had a woman such as this.
My heart is filled with great love for you, he whispered.Tears sprang to Loretta’s eyes. She couldn’t name the emotion that caused them, didn’t want to. Then, like projectiles from a cannon, the words...
Loh-rhett-ah is here, eh? Hunter reached to take Loretta’s hand, pulling her close to the bed. Her heart has been laid upon the ground, and she has wailed and wept. You will see into her, yes?Hunter j...
Knowing what he wanted, he went after it with single-minded intensity, until a hoarse moan ripped from her and she arched toward him, her body jerking with every pass of his tongue. His, at last.
I’m not your woman yet. Have you no shame? It’s broad daylight. People might see.They will see you are my woman.They’ll see my drawers, that’s what they’ll see!He abandoned his hold on her skirt to ru...