carry her over the threshold. “Home away from home, my bride.”
“This is wonderful!” She kissed him as he let her slide to her feet, still encircled within his embrace. “I’ve wanted to see your cabin since I heard you discuss it with Homer.” Jami twirled in his arms to note the feminine touches obviously added for her benefit. Candles, fresh flowers, and silk toss pillows.
“I’ve wanted to see a few things myself,” Grant growled with a wicked grin.
“Me, too,” Jami countered, returning his heat-filled stare.
With surprising ease, they dispatched Grant’s clothing. Her dress slithered off her into a pool of satin and lace. Suddenly shy, she peeked at him through her lashes. Though she had seen him nearly naked before, nude Grant was so magnificently male that he took her breath away.
“Red, my darling,” he groaned, gazing at her, his eyes nearly black with emotion. “You’re as beautiful as I imagined.” His voice husky with adoration, he stepped forward, reaching out to her. “I’ve waited so long to make you mine.”
Feeling a surge of womanly power, Jami stood still, letting Grant come to her. How she loved this fantastic man and how she delighted in him wanting her!
“Ouch!” he hollered, hopping on one foot, then bouncing onto the edge of the bed.
“What is it?”
“Cupid!” Grant picked up the unfastened brooch from the floor and dropped it onto the nightstand. “That charm doesn’t know when to retire.”
“Talking to jewelry on our wedding night?” she teased, gazing seductively at him. “Oh, how romantic.”
“You minx.”
Jami giggled. Grant lunged at her, tackling her. Laughing, bride and groom toppled onto the bed together, her curves pressed against his long hard length. The laughter died, and her breath caught at the exquisite delight of her body molding to his. She felt his rising passion, igniting a flame deep within her. Knowing the love in her heart blazed in her eyes, she gazed down into Grant’s mesmerizing midnight blue eyes, his pupils flaring with answering devotion. His mouth captured hers in a slow, deep kiss of honeyed wine, leaving her dizzy and breathless.
“Jami, I adore you.” The words escaped Grant’s lips, a sound somewhere between a cry and a prayer. “You’re my one and only—forever.”
“Oh, Grant,” she said, burying her face in his neck, nuzzling closer, inhaling him, savoring him. “You drive me crazy.”
“Sweet talker,” he replied, stealing her breath with another kiss.
Tilting her head, she gazed at him, “Mmm, you want sweet—I’ll show you sweet.”
“Ouch!” Suddenly he jerked away, hand flying to his shoulder. “Something bit me.”
“Cupid?” Jami laughed, drawing the golden brooch from under Grant’s shoulder. “How did that get on the bed?”
“Guess it’s time to retire our love charm. Think we can make it on our own from here out?” Grant slipped a miniature jewel box from the nightstand drawer, handing it to Jami. “I had this specially made for Cupid.”
Cool to her touch, Jami held the exquisite jewelry box and lifted up the hinged crystal lid, revealing blue velvet lining embossed with silver and gold stars. “A bed of midnight magic,” she said, gently placing Cupid inside on the velvet.
“You got it, Red.” Grant pulled Jami back against him when she slid the jewel box into the nightstand drawer, shutting it away for the night.
“There.” She threw her arms around her husband’s neck, drawing his head down to hers, murmuring, “Now we need to keep a promise to Toby.”
“What promise?”
“He wants a baby brother or sister, and I promised we’d work on it.”
Grant teased her lips with his own. “Then let’s get to work.”
Nestled upon the starry midnight velvet beneath the crystal lid, Cupid winked.
Here are more books in the CupidKey series:
Wild West Cupid
CupidKey Book #2
What happens when you toss together a big city career woman, a West Texas rancher, and the infamous Carrington Cupid in WILD WEST CUPID? Love, chaos, and a touch of magic.
In Book Two of the Cupid Key series, Dara Sheen is roped into helping her friends, Ty and Sierra, develop an ad promotion campaign for their computer dating business, Cupid Key. When she travels from Houston to the Circle C Ranch in West Texas, she wrangles with Ty’s brother, Errol Carrington. Sparks fly as they clash. Will a sprinkle of Cupid magic be enough to unite Dara and Errol in a Texas Two-step of everlasting love?
Highway to Love
CupidKey Book #3
When the Carrington Cupid brooch escapes the family fold, trucker Jerry Hilton discovers it in the trailer of his 18-wheeler after several deliveries. Unaware of how it got there, or that it has united couples in the Carrington family for generations, he pins it to his visor. The escaped Cupid connects Jerry with stranded motorist Betina Hughes, leading the trucker and his dog, together with Betina and her cat, down a bumpy road that only Cupid’s magic can smooth out into a highway of love.
Coming March, 2013
Renegade Moon
In RENEGADE MOON, book #4 of the CupidKey series, Eric Montoya receives the Carrington Cupid from a cousin, coinciding with the arrival of Destiny Winston. A photojournalist from Austin, Texas, Destiny is sent on assignment by Western Skies magazine, to cover the excavation of historical sites recently discovered on the Bar-M Ranch near Las Nubes, New Mexico. Bad timing is complicated by Eric’s brother, Martin, and an old flame, Iris Rampton, showing up at the Bar-M. The Renegade Moon beams danger and intrigue down upon the Land of Enchantment, challenging Cupid as he spins a double spell of love magic to thwart those who attempt to stop the inevitable, and unite soul mates who belong together.
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