Loretta Jane, if you’d like to come back in, Henry said you could. All you gotta do is apologize.Loretta glanced toward the rise again. Hunter would come. Thank you, Aunt Rachel, but no. I’ve made my...
I think I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, Molly mine. And when I look at you, that’s all I’m ever going to see, the woman I love. It doesn’t matter if you’re perfect. To me, you will b...
Hunter, why did you tie me to stakes again tonight? How long do you plan to do that?Until my touch is carved in your heart.
He looked over at her. Strong is right?Well, yes, I suppose you could say that.You say a woman cannot be bought. I say she can. I am strong. I am right.
He glided his greased hand up her thigh to her hip, acutely aware of how hot her skin was and how fragile her jutting hipbone felt against the leathery surface of his palm. She tossed her head and moa...
Buffalo chips! Amy grumbled. Fine way to spend the mornin’, gatherin’ pooh for fires. Why us?Because we aren’t so old we get crinks in our backs or so young we’ll get lost. Loretta bent over, picked u...
You would prefer that she live for always away from you?Hunter’s gut contracted. In that instant he realized how much he wanted the woman beside him. I would prefer that my eyes never again fall upon...
You will be my friend again? he asked huskily. We will make laughter together, yes? And you will lie beside me when we sleep, with no fear, because my hand upon you is the hand of your good friend.I’d...
You do not spit when your sister may suffer my wrath. I should keep her, I think. She is a brave warrior, no?Loretta’s heart caught. Her eyes flew to Amy. She should have shot the child while she had...
You cannot escape me. You are here. That is the way of it.Glancing toward the door and the horrors she knew lay beyond, she whispered, I have no choice.You choose where you place your feet, Blue Eyes....
Why this girl?Hunter tossed a sliver of wood onto the flames. Another will not do.
Where was Hunter? The question repeated itself in Loretta’s mind hundreds of times with each passing day. As the mercenaries escorted her and Amy ever closer to Fort Belknap, Loretta’s uneasiness grew...
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. I am your wind, Blue Eyes. Bend or break. In all her life, sh...
What are you-- White people don’t things like this. I’m sure they don’t. Stop! Please?Alarmed by her tone, Hunter lifted his head to search her eyes. The last thing he wanted was to frighten her. The...
We will meet again. I will come to you like the wind, from nowhere. Remember the face of this Comanche. I am your destiny.
Warrior beckoned to her. Loh-rhett-ah, you come, eh?Loretta glanced uneasily at Red Buffalo. To her surprise, he moved closer to Maiden of the Tall Grass to make room for her. Blackbird dashed across...
The wind brushed her cheeks, catching his name and carrying it away from her. She crossed her arms over her breasts and sobbed, her gaze fixed on the rise. She would never again look at the horizon wi...
The little boy touched his dust-streaked hand to Loretta’s hair and made a breathless ooh sound. He smelled like any little boy who had been hard at play, a bit sweaty yet somehow sweet, with the defi...
Slowly the heat from his body chased the chill from hers. Loretta’s eyelids grew heavy. The wind whispering in the treetops seemed peaceful now, not frightening. The shifting shadows that had terrifie...
In the dim light he could see tears shimmering on her pale cheeks. He bent his head to catch their saltiness with the tip of his tongue.Ah, Blue Eyes, , don’t cry. Has my hand upon you ever brought pa...