by: Reese Ryan
Series: Texas Cattleman’s Club: Houston
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: August 1, 2019
Publisher: Harlequin Desire
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Everything is bigger in Texas—especially temptation.
For attorney and Texas Cattleman’s Club member Roarke Perry, Annabel Currin is about as forbidden as it gets. A just-jilted bride, gorgeously sexy, tender-hearted…and the daughter of his father’s nemesis. The sexual currents crackling between him and his client should have been warning enough. Now they’re both playing with fire. And someone’s gonna get burned…
Roarke scanned the woman. She was gorgeous in a floor-length blue gown that reminded him of something a Greek goddess would wear. Athena, Artemis or perhaps Aphrodite.
The smooth creamy skin of her back and shoulders gleamed, highlighted with a dusting of glitter that augmented her ethereal beauty. The peekaboo feature at the front of her dress exposed a little of her midriff.
Roarke glanced again at her left hand. The huge rock she’d been sporting a few days earlier was notably absent.
One corner of Annabel’s mouth curled in a grin as she took another sip of her martini. She leaned in and whispered, “I don’t know if you know this, Two Pies, but you’re staring. It’s frowned upon in polite society.”
“Is Two Pies my official rap name?” Roarke straightened his tie, trying his best to mask his amusement.
She laughed, setting her glass on the bar. “I thought it sounded better than Not-My-Brother.”
“Oh, so Ryder told you about that, huh?” Roarke signaled for another scotch and soda.
“My dad tries to be as open and honest as he can be with everyone in his life.” Her statement implied that his father didn’t operate that way. She’d get no argument from him. “Besides, we’re not kids anymore. He wanted me and my siblings to be armed with the truth, should we be confronted with the accusation. He offered to show me the paternity test, but I didn’t need to see it. I know my father.”
“That’s how I feel about my mother.” He accepted the scotch and soda. “So I didn’t believe it, either.”
“Well, here’s to not being siblings.” She raised her glass, clinking it with his. “Because that would make this very awkward.”
Before he could ask what she meant, she’d pressed a hand to his chest, lifted onto her toes and placed a soft kiss on his lips.
Roarke froze, startled by her sudden action.
Annabel laughed. “I can’t figure out if the kiss was that bad or that good.”
“It was good. Definitely...good.”
The smooth creamy skin of her back and shoulders gleamed, highlighted with a dusting of glitter that augmented her ethereal beauty. The peekaboo feature at the front of her dress exposed a little of her midriff.
Roarke glanced again at her left hand. The huge rock she’d been sporting a few days earlier was notably absent.
One corner of Annabel’s mouth curled in a grin as she took another sip of her martini. She leaned in and whispered, “I don’t know if you know this, Two Pies, but you’re staring. It’s frowned upon in polite society.”
“Is Two Pies my official rap name?” Roarke straightened his tie, trying his best to mask his amusement.
She laughed, setting her glass on the bar. “I thought it sounded better than Not-My-Brother.”
“Oh, so Ryder told you about that, huh?” Roarke signaled for another scotch and soda.
“My dad tries to be as open and honest as he can be with everyone in his life.” Her statement implied that his father didn’t operate that way. She’d get no argument from him. “Besides, we’re not kids anymore. He wanted me and my siblings to be armed with the truth, should we be confronted with the accusation. He offered to show me the paternity test, but I didn’t need to see it. I know my father.”
“That’s how I feel about my mother.” He accepted the scotch and soda. “So I didn’t believe it, either.”
“Well, here’s to not being siblings.” She raised her glass, clinking it with his. “Because that would make this very awkward.”
Before he could ask what she meant, she’d pressed a hand to his chest, lifted onto her toes and placed a soft kiss on his lips.
Roarke froze, startled by her sudden action.
Annabel laughed. “I can’t figure out if the kiss was that bad or that good.”
“It was good. Definitely...good.”
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Reese Ryan writes sexy, deeply emotional romances with family drama, surprising secrets, and a posse of deliciously-flawed characters.
A Midwesterner with deep Southern roots, Reese currently resides in semi-small-town North Carolina where she’s an avid reader, a music junkie, and a self-declared connoisseur of cheesy grits.
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