Reeve put his newborn son carefully into the cradle and then stretched out on the bed beside Maggie. Sighing with contentment and smiling up at the ceiling, he said, “I wish I could make love to you, Yank. Then everything would be perfect.”

Maggie laughed and bent to circle his lips with her tongue. “Perhaps you can’t make love to me,” she whispered, “but I can make love to you.”

Reeve looked at her in shock. “Good God, woman, what are you saying? You just had a baby—”

Maggie was kissing his jawline. “I know,” she answered in a throaty voice. “It’s an experience that’s almost impossible to overlook.”

Reeve chuckled. “That it is. Stop that!”

Maggie continued to kiss him, unbuttoning his shirt, trailing the path of her fingers with her lips. She delighted in the shivering groan he gave. “I think you’d better lock the door,” she said.

“I think you’re right,” Reeve replied, moaning as Maggie’s tongue traced the circumference of his nipple. He got up, locked the door, and came back to the bed, where his wife immediately began loving him again. “Woman,” he implored hoarsely as she tugged his shirt free of his trousers, “will you have mercy on me?”

“No,” Maggie answered. And she was true to her word.

Linda Lael Miller

LINDA LAEL MILLER

has written more than twenty-four novels, including the
New York Times bestsellers Princess Annie, The Legacy,
Yankee Wife, and Daniel’s Bride. With more than six million
copies of her books in print, she is considered to be one of
the finest romance authors writing today. Ms. Miller
sides in the Seattle area, where she is hard at work on an
exciting new series for Pocket Books.

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