Teasing Annie: The Temptation Saga: Book Two Read Free Page A

little.”
    “I have Wednesdays and Sundays off,” Seraphina said.
    “You can experiment here anytime though, Annie,” Dusty said. “Zach and I would love to feast on your results.”
    “Really? I’d like that.” Annie wiped her lips with her napkin. “I love to cook. I haven’t done anything since I got here except eat Lean Cuisines. I’ve been so busy getting settled and taking care of animals.”
    “We’ve got a lot of those around here.” Zach smiled warmly. “And we haven’t had a full-time vet in several months. Dusty’s been filling in some.”
    “I can tell she knows a lot about animals,” Annie said.
    The conversation continued and Dallas listened with only one ear, hearing about every third word while he imagined Annie’s plump breasts spilling out of her creamy pleasant blouse. Moonlight skin surrounding carnelian nipples. He stiffened inside his jeans.
    “Dallas?”
    He jerked, hearing his name. “Yeah, Zach?”
    “Would you mind?”
    “Huh? Would I mind what?”
    “Taking Annie home. Her car’s in the shop. She rode out here with Dusty.”
    “R-Really,” Annie stammered, “it’s not necessary.”
    “It’s not a problem. I have to drive home anyway.”
    “But don’t you live…around here?” Annie gazed around the table, all three of them chuckling. “What’s so funny?”
    “Nothing,” Dusty said. “There’s no reason you should know, being new in town. McCray Landing is the largest beef ranch in Colorado. Dallas lives here, but his home is several miles away from ours.”
    “Oh.”
    Annie’s pale skin flushed, and Dallas’s groin tightened. Again. He wondered if her breasts were blushing right now. Rosy swells of edible flesh.
    “I knew this was the largest ranch, I just didn’t—”
    “Grasp the magnitude?” Dusty smiled. “I didn’t either when I first came here. It’s huge.”
    “I’ll be glad to drive you home, Doc,” Dallas said. “For one small favor in return.”
    “Wh-What would that be?”
    God, her stammer is adorable. She felt the connection. He could tell.
    “You let me know when you and Seraphina do your experimenting. I want to come to dinner.”
    Annie nodded. “Sure. No problem.”
    “Let’s have coffee in the family room,” Dusty said. “I think Seraphina made chocolate cake, too.”
    “No tiramisu?” Zach said.
    “Not tonight, sweetheart,” Dusty said. “Tiramisu is Zach’s favorite dessert,” Dusty explained and then followed her husband into the family room.
    “I bet you make a killer tiramisu, Doc,” Dallas said, helping Annie from her chair.
    “As a matter of fact—”
    “Yeah?”
    “I can’t stand the stuff.”
    Dallas erupted into gales of laughter. This woman was full of surprises.
    “What’s so funny?”
    “I thought you were a good little Italian girl.”
    “I’m a Jersey girl, Cowboy, and don’t you forget it.” She broke away from his grasp and headed toward the family room.
    She walked away, her narrow hips swaying gently in her voluminous skirt. With just a little urging, that frothy fabric would slide over her beautifully curved bottom and pool onto the floor, revealing legs that he was sure would be long, slender, and shapely. And between them, a moist and sweet center. He wanted a taste of her. Of all of her.
    Damn. He needed to get laid. There hadn’t been anyone since Chelsea, and those last few years their sexual encounters had been few and far between. Nothing since their separation either. Dallas’s personal code of ethics wouldn’t allow him to cheat on his wife.
    But as of this afternoon, he no longer had a wife.
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    D riving home next to Dallas McCray heightened every nerve in Annie’s body. Each time he shifted his five-speed Mercedes, his elbow brushed hers, and a spark ignited at the contact and ran up her arm, radiating throughout the rest of her body. This was ridiculous. He wasn’t even her type.
    But how could Dallas McCray not be anyone’s type?
    He was a cowboy, for one,