Seducing the Bachelor (The Bachelor Auction Returns Book 3) (24 page)
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Authors: Sinclair Jayne
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The early afternoon
sun slanted in through the windows, highlighting the muscles that chorded along Colt’s back. While he slept, she traced the lines of the tree branches of his tattoos that stretched across his upper back. She loved the way his eyelashes were so long and feathery. The only hint of softness in his face and body.
“Like what you see?” he asked, eyes still closed.
“I love what I see.” She leaned over him, reveling in the sensation of his skin against her nipples.
He rolled to his side so they were facing. “I’ve never done this before, Talon,” Colt said. “A relationship, but I want you to know that I’m all-in. I want to do whatever it takes.”
She traced her finger along his eyebrow and down his straight nose. “Me, too. All in. I want us to be a family.”
“The thing both of us never had.” He cupped the back of her head and pulled her in for a kiss. He touched the necklace and rubbed the stone between his thumb and forefinger. “You and Parker have become my whole world,” he said softly, his golden eyes warmly searched hers.
“For me, too.”
There was so much to talk about. So much to learn but, for now, Talon was happy just to be with him, to have the promise of a future together. Even though Colt seemed determined to push her out the door to school to the program in Bozeman. He’d even had her call the school to see if she could still accept her placement since he’d argued she wouldn’t have to relocate the first year and they could decide if they should all move temporarily to Pullman, Washington in a year or she could come home on weekends, but they’d be a family so she wouldn’t be deciding or doing anything alone anymore, and Talon could definitely get on board with that.
She leaned over him, draping her body over his, still needing to feel him so close and the pendant nestled between them. That reminded her.
“There was a woman who came in the diner the other day. She was really curious about the necklace. Who gave it to me? Where they got it?”
His hand tangled in her hair.
“She asked if it had an inscription and an artist signature so I got freaked out.”
“Why?”
“I thought she’d accuse me of stealing it, and I had no proof that you gave it to me or where it came from. You asked me to keep it safe for you, and I got scared.”
He continued to stroke his hands lightly on her skin, but his strokes became a little more sensual in intent, and Talon found herself melting again.
“But what if she’s related to you in some way?”
“Who cares? I’ve got you. And in an hour, we’ll have Parker back so we have to be quick.”
Talon sighed, losing herself in his kiss. She smiled.
“I told her my…hope you don’t mind”—she blushed a little—“boyfriend gave it to me.”
“Boyfriend?” He echoed, one eyebrow arched up, and he rolled her over and pinned her. “I think I’m going to change that description pretty damned fast.”
“Promises.” Talon teased.
He braced both arms on either side of her. “And I warned you I never promise something I’m not one hundred percent sure I can deliver.”
The End
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Sinclair Jayne
has loved reading romance novels since she discovered Barbara Cartland historical romances when she was in sixth grade. By seventh grade, she was haunting the library shelves looking to fall in love over and over again with the heroes born from the imaginations of her favorite authors. After teaching writing classes and workshops to adults and teens for many years in Seattle and Portland, she returned to her first love of reading romances and became an editor for Tule Publishing last year.
Sinclair lives in Oregon’s wine country where she and her family own a small vineyard of Pinot Noir and where she dreams of being able to write at a desk like Jane Austen instead of in parking lots waiting for her kids to finish one of their 12,000 extracurricular activities. …
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