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your wife,” she argued; her voice
shaking as he reached up to play with her breasts.
“Travis…” she moaned, feeling needy as his fingers
tweaked her hardened nipples.
    “You could be,”
he said, his voice cracking as he said the
words. “How about it, Laurie? Marry me for real… Be my
wife,” he pleaded quietly, moving his hand between her
legs to rub over her moistened core.
“My brothers would have a conniption fit,” she argued
softly. “If Jeff wouldn’t kill you, you can bet Eric would.”
“I’m not afraid of your brothers,” Travis declared bravely.
    “Well, you should be. If they even got wind that we’d slept
together, you’d be in danger. If we were to run off together
and actually get married, I’d end up a widow before the
year’s end.”
“You’re exaggerating,” he teased, nibbling on her ear.
“No… I’m not,” she argued. “I need some space. I can’t
think about this right now.”
    “Promise me you’ll
consider it,” he demanded. “I’m quite
sure I’ll never get enough of you, and that’s a dilemma I
never encountered before. That’s not going to change
anytime soon if ever. It would make Ma happy, and the
idea of walking away from you and what we share makes
me itch. I’d be miserable. The only thing I can come up
with as a solution is to marry you for real.”
    “Well, there’s one thing you haven’t considered… Texas is
my home. My whole family is there… my business is there.
I can’t just up and move that far away from my brothers.
Even if my brothers could eventually get over my suddenly
getting married behind their backs, they would never
understand my leaving them that far behind. Not in a
million years.”
“Couldn’t we compromise?” he asked, groaning. “Settle
somewhere halfway between my home and yours?”
    “Oh, sure… that would work,” she said sarcastically. “You
leave your business and I leave mine, settling somewhere
away from all of our family members where we have to
start completely over from scratch. Makes total sense…
why, I have no idea why I didn’t think of that sooner.”
    Travis stepped away from her and ran his hand over his
hair in agitation, messing it up in the process. “Think on it,”
he said quietly. “Go ahead and spend a little time here with
the car. I’m going to go sit on the porch in the recliner for a
bit. Let me know when you’ve reached a decision,” he said
turning away from her. He stopped mid-step and turned just
his head to look back at her. “Just promise me you won’t
rush to make a choice. I care about you a great deal and I
don’t want to lose you or what we’ve found together.”
    Laurie stood motionless as she watched his big body
lumber away from her with his head hung low in despair. A
lump of emotion formed in her throat as her eyes moved to
the tattoo on his arm. The big heart with his mother’s name
surrounded by thorns and roses made her soften towards
him even more than she had when he’d held her in his
arms, pressing his body urgently against her own. Travis
had a heart as big as all of Texas, and she knew that if he
fell in love with her, he would never let her down. A love
like that was so enticing… but so frightening at the same
time. She was torn as she thought of her options.
    The last thing she’d expected when she’d set out on this
trip with Travis was a real proposal… Or the feelings he’d
unearthed in her. She knew she had a history of making bad
choices when it came to men. Her brothers were both quick
to point that out to her on a regular basis. Before making a
permanent decision like marriage, she had to take some
serious time to really think it over. This wasn’t the time to
be impulsive. She had to think about more than the way her
blood heated every time she even thought about the big
sexy man who had claimed both her body and her heart.
    As he settled his big body into the lounge chair, Laurie
turned her attention back to the car. At least