He slanted his head to the other side and slammed his mouth down on hers. Then his fingers cupped her head and tipped it to the side. His other hand drove into her silken hair at the back of her head. She stopped talking abruptly this time because he tightened his arm around her waist and yanked it up, yanking her into his body. He moved her through the door, reached out a hand, grabbed it, slammed it, turned her sharply then moved in so she was pressed to it. “Oh God,” she whispered, hands coming up to rest light on his chest, eyes wide and staring in his. He was on her, he rounded her waist with an arm and twisted them so he was moving her backward toward the door she’d come out. She stopped talking abruptly when it became clear to her that he wasn’t going to stop coming at her. “Chace,” she said, still talking quietly, “did something-?” It was a style that worked for her in a huge way.Īnd it had been working for Chace the same way for a long fucking time.

Her own style, a style that did nothing to emphasize the obviously attractive features of her face or frame and because of that, they contradictorily accentuated them. She looked like a librarian who had good taste in clothes and a light but expert hand with makeup. Auburn hair falling in sheets over her shoulders and down her chest, a hank of it at the top, right of her forehead pulled to the side in a cute bobby pin. Skin displayed above the neckline of the tee highlighting an unusual and attractive three-tiered necklace. And he doesn't know what to do with her.Ĭute, tight skirt that skimmed her hips, cupped her ass and hit her knees. Pure and clean Faye may be, but when the shy librarian is forced to go head to head with the man who she's had a crush on since he hit her hometown, Chace finds Faye is full of surprises.

Faye is pure and clean and Chace refuses to dirty her with his sordid past. Chace has long since had his eye on what could possibly be the town's last remaining virgin but he has also long since given up hope he could make her his.

While searching for new leads, he runs into Faye Goodknight, the town's quiet, shy, pretty librarian. The only thing he can do is find his wife's murderer. The quiet, content future he envisioned of the love a good woman with whom he could build a family was now beyond his reach. Knowing how deep in the mud he was forced to sink, Chace feels he'll never get clean.

When the local police department's secrets are revealed and the wife he's forced to marry is murdered, Chace finds himself the town of Carnal's hero.

Breathe by kristen ashley