Gambling On a Heart (42 page)

“Zack...Oh...I’m...” The words were lost as she shattered beneath him.

When she opened eyes full of wonder, he smiled down into her face. “I knew I could make you come by playing with your breasts.”

She laughed and shifted against him, eliciting a groan from him. “I think it’s time we get naked, don’t you?”

“In a second. But first...” He reached into his jeans pocket and pulled out the engagement ring. “I think this belongs to you.”

She furrowed her brow, and he kissed her nose. When he pulled back, he held the ring before her face.

She gasped. “My ring.” Then her face flushed a deeper red. This time from embarrassment, not passion. “I mean. The ring you–”

He knew Logan had shown the ring to her, but he hadn’t known she’d always considered it hers. “What do you say we change your last name?”

“I just got my last name back.” She laid her left hand on his cheek and grinned. “I could opt to keep it.”

“True.”

He took her hand from his face and slid the diamond ring he’d bought for her fourteen years ago onto her finger. As he peered into her luminous eyes swimming in unshed tears of joy, he huskily asked, “Tracy Caroline Quinn, will you marry me? Become this cowboy’s wife?”

“Yes,” she breathed and pulled him to her and kissed him so deeply it took his breath away. When she finally pulled away, she rasped, “I think we’re both a little overdressed.”

He toed off his boots and shucked his jeans, and then helped pull off her boots and jeans. After he sheathed himself with a condom, she lay back pulling him over her again. As he kissed her, he pressed into her one inch at a time. She moaned and then broke the kiss. Her eyes opened and she gasped as he seated himself completely inside her.

“Oh, God. Zack...” She met him thrust for passionate thrust, and he couldn’t remember anything except that he loved this woman.

Always had. Always would.

Sara Walter Ellwood

Although Sara Walter Ellwood has long ago left the farm for the glamour of the big town, she draws on her experiences growing up on a small hobby farm in West Central Pennsylvania to write her stories. She’s been married to her college sweetheart for nearly 20 years, and they have two teenagers and one very spoiled rescue cat named Penny. She longs to visit the places she writes about and jokes she’s a cowgirl at heart stuck in Pennsylvania suburbia.

She also writes paranormal romantic suspense under the pen name of Cera duBois.

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First Electronic Edition: July 2013

ISBN-13: 978-1-61650-482-3