Seduction’s Stakes

by

Claire Ashgrove

Copyright © 2009
All rights reserved, The Wild Rose Press

 

 

 

 

The smoldering look behind those bright green

eyes had nothing to do with any horse and everything to do with passion.

At length, Riley began to chuckle. “Maddie, Maddie, Maddie.” He shook his head, amused despite his painful discomfort. “I can’t sell him for three hundred thousand. And, while I promise you, making love to you would be worth three times that, I’m not going to sell him that way.”

Her look of disappointment only further provoked his humor. He leaned forward, sampling her mouth again. It took less than a heartbeat to bring her back into his arms and elicit her fiery response. Horse or no horse, Maddie McCleery wanted him. As much as he wanted her.

Sliding his lips closer to that tempting earring once more, he murmured, “You like a good wager, don’t you?”

Her throaty laugh sent another rush of desire racing through his veins.

“Of course.”

Suckling at her dainty earlobe, he took it between his teeth and tugged gently, desperately trying to ignore the catch in her breathing. “I’ll make you a bet then.”

She spread her hand across his abdomen, sliding it upward to flatten it against his chest. “What kind of bet?”