The Texas Rancher's Family. Cathy Gillen Thacker

      Thunder rumbled closer.

      “You’re sure it’s okay?” he rasped, wishing she would give him some reason not to want her.

      “I wouldn’t have offered if it wasn’t,” she murmured, her eyes telling him she was as affected by his presence as he was by hers.

      They exchanged glances, and an intimacy Mac hadn’t expected welled up between them. Decision made, he ignored the punch of desire in his gut. Just because he felt it didn’t mean he had to act on it.

      He nodded agreeably. “Then we’ll bunk here for the night.”