Knight, Kayla - Her Long Hot Surrender [Raw Texas Heat 3] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) Read Free

just made him want to possess her. Fuck her senseless, just like he’d wanted to do the last time he’d seen her.
    A hot, scorching breeze whipped across his face, drawing every last bit of moisture from his skin. Madi fanned herself with her hand, obviously finding the heat oppressive. By all accounts this heat wave seemed set to stay awhile longer, and he wondered how she’d cope. He pointed across to his ranch. “We’re just five minutes away. If you need any help, call us.” He knew from personal experience of losing a parent that she had a tough time ahead.
    He couldn’t resist breathing in her womanly scent. “Madi, I—”
    “I’m going back to Washington when this is all over.”
    “If you say so, Madi.”
    “I’m Madison, cowboy. Always will be.” Holding her head high, she spun quickly on her heels and went inside the house.

Chapter Two

    As soon as Madison closed the door she sagged back against it. Just what was it with Gabe Hayes anyway? He’d made her act like a surly teenager. Surely she’d outgrown that spoilt brat behavior? She shook her head. He was a cowboy. She’d always hated cowboys. They hung about cattle all day, and smelled of horses.
    Only—Gabe had made an impression on her today, and in a big way. Something he’d been unable to do when he was just a skinny teenage kid.
    She closed her eyes, trying not to think of his big, strong body and his wonderful, powerful shoulders towering over her. Now age thirty, she guessed he was about six-three and two hundred pounds. He still had the same abundant jet-black hair. But now the whole package seemed far more enticing. She could easily imagine him being masterful with her. There would be no going slow. He’d rip the clothes from her body before fucking her in the most basic of ways. Fast and furious. That would be Gabe’s style. She’d known it the moment she looked into his amber eyes.
    Thank goodness she’d had ten years experience walking the halls of power in Washington. She’d learned the hard way to keep her feelings closely guarded. That was one of the good things that Carson had taught her over the years. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer . He’d been right. Carson had never let his true feelings be known, not to her, especially not to her.
    Well, she’d sent Gabe Hayes away with a flea in his ear, just like she done all those years ago. Only—he was just the type of man she needed right now. Rough and ready, that was Gabe’s way. She guessed what he lacked in polish, he more than made up for with carnal enthusiasm.
    Madison shook her head. What was she thinking of? Gabe Hayes was a cowboy, plain and simple. Oh, he might co-own a large spread with his brother Tyler, but she’d met good-looking, rich, powerful men before. They surrounded Carson. They had surrounded her life. These Washington guys could buy and sell the Hayes brothers ten times over. So why did this rough-and-ready cowboy make her heart beat so rapidly?
    Maybe it was because he was different. She doubted he even owned a suit and tie.
    “Madison, Madison, come quickly. I need you.” Her mother’s voice sounded frail and frantic, and she rushed to her bedside. “I need my medicine. The pain is unbearable.”
    Madison cursed her own selfish behavior. She should be thinking of her mother, instead of letting her thoughts be filled with sexual images of Gabe Hayes. Her mother looked terrible, writhing in agony. She poured a measure of the liquid morphine and helped her mother to sit up so she could swallow. The cancer had spread to her bones, and morphine was the only drug able to take the edge off her pain.
    “This heat is suffocating me.” Her mother’s eyes remained closed until the pain began to subside. “I pray the Good Lord will take me every night while I sleep.”
    “Please don’t say that, Mother. It upsets me. You don’t mean it.” Madison adjusted the fan on its stand, positioning the flow of air to give maximum relief to