Make a story for me, yes? About my Loh-rhett-ah when she was small like Blackbird.She stared at him, clearly unable to believe he meant it. He forced a yawn, and from the look that crossed her small f...
Loretta’s shoulders slumped in defeat. With numb hands she lowered the rifle to the dirt.A nasty grin twisted Hunter’s mouth. So it is a trade? You are my woman?For once, she was glad she couldn’t tal...
Loretta! Get back in the yard, Rachel called.Loretta turned, hugging her waist, her body bent slightly to contain the sobs that tried to escape her. Aunt Rachel, he’s leaving me. He’s leaving me!Rache...
Loretta opened her eyes and gazed up at her Comanche husband through a haze of longing. By degrees her pulse slowed, and her senses cleared. A tender smile curved his mouth.My heart is heavy to say th...
Loretta encircled his waist with her arms and pressed her cheek against his chest, inhaling the scent of his skin, loving it. Her gaze settled on the gigantic moon that shone down on them. You aren’t...
Look what I have here. A gift, yes? For your woman. A gift like no other.He pulled something sparkly from a parfleche and palmed it, extending his arm toward Hunter. Moonlight on water, cousin. A comb...
Lie on your back and close your eyes. Let me chase your fear away. With nothing to fear, there is no need to die, eh?No. She tried to push him away. No.He slipped an arm under her knees and drew her d...
Let’s list our evidence against him, shall we? Loretta held up a fist. What did Hunter do when Santos took you?He came and got me.Loretta uncurled her thumb. That’s one piece of evidence. What did he...
Leaning her head back, she began her nightly ritual, wringing the rag to trickle the scented water along her throat and over her breasts. In summer, the customary week between tub baths seemed like an...
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. Hunt...
Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, there’s Injuns in the yard!Loretta catapulted upward and landed on all fours in the middle of the bed. Peeking out over the windowsill, she looked at the yard and saw--just that:...
I’m in no need of matrimony, Father. I still my honor.Hunter jerked her to his side and, in an ominously even voice, said, Your honor will soon go the way of the wind, Blue Eyes. You made a God promi...
I’m here if you need an ear. You can count on me.With that, she left the loft. Loretta wrapped her arms around her knees and gazed out the window at the moonlit yard, remembering another night, a life...
It will be well. My people will accept. You are one with them now, the wife of a warrior. In time, you will want to be beside me. Your fear will leave. You will see. Until then, this Comanche will wai...
It is not the way of a Comanche to beat his woman, he rasped. Just as it is not his way to let her go away from him.
It is good?Mm, she said, taking another bite and brushing her palm clean on her bloomers. Delicious.Dee-lish-us?For the space of a heartbeat she forgot to be afraid of him, and a smile spread across h...
It is good I came, my father. You have the gift. Already my heart is lighter.Many Horses ran his tongue over his own jagged teeth, nodding thoughtfully. I am proud of all my children, he said huskily....
Instinctively she tried to push him away, only to find that he was too strong to be so easily dispatched. By the time she realized that, the delicious pull of his mouth swept her mind clean of all rat...
In one liquid movement he rose on an elbow above her, his broad chest a canopy of bronze, his shoulders eclipsing the light so only her face was illuminated. You have stolen my heart.
In my world, you wouldn’t be smart, either.That is good. The way is How so?He nodded toward a scrawny mesquite tree that had sprung up in a cluster of rock. He plants dead trees in the earth, and the...