Breathless Temptation [Texas Stallions 2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) Read Free

this woman”—he pointed to Delilah’s driver’s license—“is part of that family, then she’s related to Pamela Travis, who married into the Devero family. Pamela Travis’s family owned a good part of Temptation, Texas. I heard that she sold the land before moving to California over twenty-five years ago.”
    Clay’s heart twisted at the connection. Curiosity struck him, and he wanted to know what Delilah was doing back in Temptation? What would make a billionaire’s daughter travel alone in the middle of nowhere, Texas? “How would you know any of this?”
    Hunter shrugged. “Well, I guess you could say that my brother Cooper is a walking Texas encyclopedia and gets off on good old Texas history.”
    Clay glanced back over his shoulder, staring at the fading amber and white lights in the far horizon, and prayed that the woman fighting for her life would find a way to survive. Making calls to loved ones that their beloved family member had been killed was starting to make him hate his job. Even worse, he now had a name to go with the breathless angel, which made it much more difficult to see another woman meet her fate in Temptation.

Chapter Two
     
    Delilah woke with the worst headache of her life. The pounding was so intense that it hurt to open her eyes. Her heart galloped in her chest, slamming fiercely against her ribs as she regained her wits. Glancing around the room, she realized she was in a hospital bed and an intravenous line had been taped to her left arm, while her left leg was covered in bandages and throbbed as severely as her head did. Blinking away the blurry vision, she felt as though she’d been hit by a bus.
    Shit! What the hell happened? She covered her face with her hand and had the urge to cry or scream. Her luck sucked.
    The unique scent of crisp sheets, medication, cleaning supplies, and other hospital fragrances she couldn’t quite identify filled her nose. In all her life, she’d spent very few days in a hospital environment. In fact, the last time she’d been admitted was at birth, when her mother passed. She went home, but her mother never did.
    Her heart did a funny little skip whenever she thought about the woman who gave her life but she never got the chance to know. It was strange to love someone she’d never met. Deep down in her soul, she believed that Pamela Devero had loved her, and it only seemed natural to reciprocate those emotions. Her father had shared stories with her about her mother’s life, how they met, dated, and ultimately fell in love. It seemed his mission to make sure that his daughter knew her mother. Oddly, never once had her father taken her back to Texas to see where her mother was raised. So with all that was going on in her life, it only seemed fitting to make the adventure now. She had to escape her vile stepfamily, and going back in search of her mother’s roots just felt like the thing to do. The idea alone brought her much-needed peace.
    Thinking back on the events that put her in the hospital, she remembered being distracted and tired, but she also remembered pressing the brakes with all her might and finding out that regardless of the amount of pressure and frequency she applied to the brake pad, the car never slowed. She’d been helpless to stop the car from slamming into the fencing. She cursed as she wished she’d just been driving a little slower and paying better attention.
    How dumb could I be?
    A twisted feeling churned in her belly as she again replayed in her mind the events of her failing brakes, wondering if she had been imagining the entire experience. As new as her car had been, she just couldn’t imagine that her brakes were faulty. Her instincts were telling her that perhaps Warren had tampered with them. He’d warned her from the beginning that he’d do something to her if she ever thought of leaving their little family circle, and it was no secret how much she disliked the Michaels. The damn man is making me