He passed through another wide-open gate, which separated the Sky Blue factory from Skylar’s private residence. The old ranch house was blocked from view by a row of scraggly trees.Unlike most Wyoming residents, her front door was locked. Kade set his bags next to the staircase in the cool, dark foyer. He looked at the pictures lining the hallway, a mish-mash of snapshots, artwork, formal studio poses and old-time sepia toned groups of photos from a century past.The items on the opposite wall were hand-stitched family samplers. Mini-quilts, needlepoint, delicate doilies; all fussy female handiwork encased in glass and gilded frames. He wouldn’t have pegged Skylar’s decorating taste as old-fashioned, Western and homey.He didn’t snoop beyond checking out the rooms on the main floor. Baby stuff had overtaken the antique dining room table. Didn’t look like Skylar did much entertaining, which filled him with an odd sense of relief.The formal feeling of the front room—matching floral co

“Might sound stupid, but I’d convinced myself that for once, the name I had, the name you knew me by, didn’t matter, because you were interested in the man inside.Yeah, I realize it was dumb. But I didn’t have any idea on how to go about making it right back then.”She waited, unsure of where he was going with this and unsure of how she’d respond.Kade reached for her hand. “Except I can make it right now. Let’s start over.”“It’s too late.”“It’s never too late. Come on. I’ll go first.” He formally shook her hand. “Howdy, little lady. I’m Kade McKay.”Skylar laughed.“You shore are purty. Anyone ever told you that you have a beautiful laugh? Like bluebells in springtime.”“Kade.”“You maybe wanna go out with me sometime?” He grinned and gave her an exaggerated wiggle of his eyebrows. “Or do you just wanna skip all that normal datin’ stuff and have my baby?”She laughed again. It’d been a long time since she’d made that carefree sound. She’d forgotten how Kade had tried to cajole her

Kade heard Skylar thrashing around in bed before he opened the door to peek inside.It took a second for his head to decipher the images his eyes were relaying.Skylar was in the middle of the bed. Pajama bottoms off. Her left forearm draped across her eyes. Her right hand stroking madly between her legs as she climaxed.Holy shit.He waited. If he burst in now she’d probably die of embarrassment. But Kade realized Skylar wasn’t aware of what she’d been doing; she’d been dreaming.Jesus. Must’ve been some damn good dream. What would he’ve done if he’d been in bed next to her when she indulged in a little self-love?Woken her up and fucked her like a madman, convincing himself it was his way of making her dreams come true.Kade paced the hallway a few more minutes before he snuck in and tucked Eliza in her crib. He stared at Skylar’s half-naked body lolling on his side of the bed, in the ultimate pin-up girl pose. The ultimate temptation. No way could he crawl in there and not touch he

“Nice to meetcha, Miz Bancroft.”When Annie yelled, “Sky. Did you hear me? Line two,” Skylar had no choice but to dump him with Dee.Ten minutes later, she found Kade and Dee chatting in the herb drying room. He turned around at her approach. His heated I-wanna-eat-you-up look made her nipples hard and her belly clench. Then his handsome face lit up when he noticed Eliza was in her arms.“There’s my sweet girl.”At the sound of his voice, Eliza’s tiny feet kicked.His grin widened. “Didja miss me, baby? You been behavin’ for your mama today?”“Your sweet girl hasn’t slept for more than fifteen minutes at a time all day.”“Maybe that means she’ll sleep all night for a change.” He nuzzled Eliza’s pudgy neck. “Which ain’t fair because it’s your night to be up with her.”“My night? I thought we were taking turns?”“Me too, sweetheart. But I took all the turns last night. You didn’t move when I got out of bed. At midnight. At two. And at four.”Dee chuckled. “Oh. I get it now.” Still smili

The mattress shifted and Skylar sat up. “Why didn’t you tell me?”“Because I liked havin’ you next to me, no matter what your motives were. Don’t matter right now.” He fluttered his fingertips up the inside of her thighs. “Spread your legs wider for me, sweetheart.”Kade caught a whiff of her arousal. Thick. Sweet. Warm. He wanted to taste her so damn bad his mouth was watering. Keeping his hands gripping her thighs, he leaned over and put his mouth on her belly button.Her stomach muscles rippled beneath his lips.He dipped his tongue into the indentation, then dragged it down to the top of her pubic bone. He blew softly across her damp curls.Goose flesh broke out across her legs and she softly gasped.“Any objections about me kissin’ you down here?”“Ah. No. Please.”Kade chuckled at her polite eagerness. After a couple of gentlemanly licks, he buried his face in her pussy, found her pulse with his tongue and began to suck her clit.She moaned his name. His. Kade.Oh yeah. This is