Free Texas Heat (Stubborn Texas Siblings Book 2) by Faith Loveright

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    If she wasn’t so attach
ed to the idea of living in her home
town despite her brother’s interfering ways, she might have
just gone ahead and thrown caution to the wind and done it,
too. Lord knows it would have served her interfering
brothers right. That was no reason to permanently tie her
life to a man’s though. Not any more than the fact that they
had beyond incredible chemistry and out of this world sex
that led to mind-blowing orgasms.
    It was what she was starting to feel for Travis in the depths
of her very soul that had Laurie wavering the most. If only
she was certain of his feelings for her, her decision would
be a lot easier to make. The word love had yet to come up
out of his mother’s earshot, and she had no idea if he meant
it when he said it to her in front of his mother or if it was all
for the older woman’s benefit. For that reason, she had
been hesitant to say the words back to him, even in front of
his mother. She had gone out of her way to try to show him
in every way she could possibly think of though. That had
to account for something.
    She found Travis sitting with his mom in the living room,
sipping a cup of coffee. He stood when she entered the
room and went over to her side, tugging her into his arms
and placing a hot kiss on her mouth, instantly making her
forget all about the anger her brothers had stirred within
her. This man was very good at doing that… making the
rest of the world just fade away to nothingness with a
simple touch.
    Laurie slumped against him as he swept his hands up over
her back to tangle in her hair as he ravaged her mouth. Her
knees went weak and her nipples puckered into hard peaks
against his chest the longer the kiss went on.
    When the kiss finally broke, they were both breathing
heavily and his voice shook with desire as he admitted that
he’d missed her while she was outside and asked if
everything was alright back at home with her family. How
he’d known the call had been from her brothers, she had no
clue, but she wasn’t about to question it. They’d grown
very close in an extremely short amount of time. It made
sense in an odd way that he could read her so easily.
    “As usual, my big brother was in one of his moods,” she
answered breathlessly.
“Let me guess,” he said, groaning when she settled her
hand on his belly just above his belt. “He was angry that
you’d left town without bothering to check in with him and
tried to convince you that you had to come back or risk
certain doom.”
    Laurie arched an eyebrow at him and grinned. “What?
Where you listening in on our conversation, or were your
ears just ringing, sensing the fact that we were talking
about you?”
“Talking about me, huh?” he asked full of good humor.
“I’m sure your brother just loved that.”
    “You have no idea,” she answered, laughing so hard her
belly hurt. She could only imagine what his mother was
thinking but right at that moment, she was enjoying the
openness between herself and Travis too much to care.
    “So, did you give him the play by play of every moment
behind closed doors during our honeymoon?” he asked
huskily, pressing his growing erection between her legs to
let her feel how affected he was by her hot body being held
in his arms.
    Laurie laughed again. “Do I look like I have a death wish?
Or worse yet, a desire to bury my husband so soon after
tying the knot?” she asked, smiling up at him, thoroughly
enjoying their banter.
    “I love the sound of that word on your lips,” he said in a
lowered intimate voice. “Husband… sounds heavenly.”
She whimpered and moaned when he brushed his lips
against her jaw bone. When he whispered the words “I love
you, Laurie,” it was all she could do to remember to
breathe.
    “Trav…” the word was strained and came out as a plea of
sorts. His mother cleared her throat and stood on shaky
legs.
    “On that note, I do believe that was
my cue to head towards
bed. I have no desire to