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The kiss deepened without any help on his part.
He wanted more. And he couldn’t have stopped himself from taking it.
And then she was gone. Ripped away.
She bolted from the rocker, her chest rising and falling as she backed up against the split-pine railing surrounding the porch. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have done that.”
“But you did.”
“I got caught up. That can’t happen again.”
Her expression glittered with undisguised longing. So why was she stopping?
“I heartily disagree. It’s practically a requirement for it to happen again.”
“Are you that clueless, Kyle? I’m your daughters’ case-worker,” she reminded him with raised eyebrows. “We can’t get involved.”
His body cooled faster than if she’ddumped a bucket of ice water on his head. “You’re right.”
Of course she was right. This wasn’t about whether she was interested or not; it was about his daughters. What had started out as a half-formed plan to distract her from work had actually distracted him far more effectively.
And he wanted to do it again.
* * *
The SEAL’s Secret Heirs
is part of the series The Texas Cattleman’s Club:
Lies and Lullabies— Baby secrets and a scheming sheikh rock Royal, Texas.
The SEAL’s Secret Heirs
Kat Cantrell
KAT CANTRELL read her first Mills & Boon novel in third grade and has been scribbling in notebooks since she learned to spell. What else would she write but romance?
Kat, her husband and their two boys live in north Texas. When she’s not writing about characters on the journey to happily-ever-after, she can be found at a football game, watching the TV show Friends or listening to ‘80s music.
Kat was the 2011 Mills & Boon So You Think You Can Write contest winner and a 2012 RWA Golden Heart® Award finalist for best unpublished series contemporary manuscript.
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Contents
Royal, Texas was the perfect place to go to die.
Kyle Wade aimed to do exactly that. After an honorable discharge from the navy, what else lay ahead of him but a slow and painful death? Might as well do it in Royal, the town that had welcomed every Wade since the dawn of time—except him.
He nearly drove through the center of town without stopping. Because he hadn’t realized he was in Royal until he was nearly out of Royal.
Yeah, it had been ten years, and when he’d stopped for gas in Odessa, he’d heard about the tornado that had ripped through the town. But still. Was nothing on the main strip still the same? These new buildings hadn’t been there when he’d left. Of course, he’d hightailed it out of Royal for Coronado, California, in a hurry and hadn’t looked
