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    A full minute of silence passed before Sadie exhaled the breath she’d been holding. Washed-out, weepy and running through a whole host of other emotions, she leaned back against the cold hard dirt, wishing for safety, a cup of hot tea and a warm bed.
    “Here. Squeeze closer. You’ll lose all your heat through the ground.” He scooted behind her and pulled her onto his lap.
    His powerful thighs pressed to the backs of hers, sending sensual shivers rippling through her. A powerful urge to melt into him and allow his body heat to keep her from freezing surged through her.
    Or was it something more she craved?
    His body pressed to hers reminded her just how long it had been since she’d been with a man. Arousal flushed her cheeks. She was relieved he couldn’t see her face. Her physical response couldn’t be any more inappropriate under the circumstances.
    His arms encircled her waist. Impulses shot through her. She pressed her back against his virile, muscular chest and all she could hear was a whoosh sound in her ears.
    Boomer put his head on her leg. “You’ve been a good boy today,” she said.
    “He’s special.” Nick’s words came out low and thick.
    Sadie tried to focus on Boomer to distract herself from the sexual current rippling up her arms, her neck. On Nick’s lap, she could feel his warm breath in her hair and it spread like wildfire down her back. Heat moved through her body, pooling between her thighs.
    * * *
    S ADIE SHIFTED IN Nick’s lap, her sweet bottom pressed against his crotch, and his tightly held control faltered. Why did he already have to remind himself this wasn’t the time for rogue hormones?
    Hell. It was as if he didn’t already know that. He was a grown man, not a horny teenager who got an erection every time he was close enough to smell a girl’s perfume. Sadie’s hair hinted of flowers and citrus. He needed to ask Walter why he had flowery shampoo at his man retreat.
    First, he needed to get a message to his buddy about the cabin.
    Nick made a mental note to circle back to this subject when he had Sadie tucked away somewhere safe. He liked the idea of taking her to the ranch even more when he thought about how much reinforcement he’d have there. Between his siblings, someone could keep watch 24/7.
    She shivered and he instinctively tightened his arms around her. He expected her to move away from him, but she didn’t. Instead, she burrowed her back deeper against him. He didn’t want to get inside his head about why that put a ridiculous smile on his face.
    The last thing he wanted to think about was how two thin strips of cotton kept them from being skin-to-bare-naked-skin. At least her teeth had stopped chattering. He didn’t care whether or not he was warm. He’d survive a few nights of cold. She wouldn’t. Not in those cotton shorts he’d given her to sleep in.
    He could see through the tops of the branches. The winds had picked up and the temperature had dropped a good ten degrees in the past fifteen minutes. The sky was blue-black. Exactly the way it looked when a cold front blew in.
    They needed shelter and food. Neither of which were in his possession. Nor were the means to get any anytime soon.
    Sadie shifted position, her curvy bottom grinding against him. He half expected her to push him away, but she didn’t. Instead, her hands squeezed in between his. Her fingers were near frozen. He rubbed his hands over hers, warming them.
    “Thank you. That’s better already,” she whispered.
    She wouldn’t thank him if she knew he mustered all the control he could to sit there with her and not slip his hands inside her shirt and caress those pert breasts the way his fingers itched to do. Needed to do? She wouldn’t thank him if she knew how unholy his thoughts were about those taut hips. And she sure as hell wouldn’t thank him if she knew how badly he wanted to spin her around in his lap and do things to her to remind her she was all woman and he was every