Night Driving. Lori Wilde

up.”

      “Jackie’s making a big mistake.”

      “Because you know her so well.” She was taunting him now, in that wide-eyed, “who, me?” way she had about her—all innocent, yet sly.

      “She’s my sister.”

      “And a grown woman.”

      “Are you saying I shouldn’t try to protect her?”

      “I’m saying that I understand how overprotective big brothers can be and how they can ruin a woman’s love life when they stick their noses in where they don’t belong. Why do you think I moved to Montana?”

      “I thought you came up here after a cowboy.”

      “Yes, and my brothers hated him.”

      “From the way things turned out, seems like your brothers had a point.”

      Tara rolled her eyes. “Just because things didn’t work out between me and Chet doesn’t mean my brothers had the right to meddle in my business. The mistake was mine to make.”

      “And yet, you’re running back home.”

      Her eyes flashed sparks. He’d upset her. He was good at that. Quite an accomplishment, since she was usually so easygoing.

      “Because my mother is ill.” She took a step toward him.

      The smell of her—both sweet and sensual—tangled up in his nose. His body hardened instantly. He clenched his jaw to fight off the erection and prayed she would not look down.

      “Is that the only reason?”

      “I miss Florida. Nothing wrong with that.”

      “And your brothers. You miss them, too.”

      “I do,” she admitted.

      “I’m just saying, they probably have your best interests at heart. More so than some cowboy named Chet.”

      “I’ll get rid of my friends,” she said in a low voice that left him hungry and aroused.

      His gaze hooked on her mouth. What beautiful, full lips, strawberry-pink and glistening with shiny gloss. “Thanks,” he managed.

      She touched him lightly, the bare brushing of her fingertips over his forearm, but it was enough to ignite his desire. He suppressed a groan.

      “We’ll be on the road within the hour.” Tara turned and went back into the house.

      Leaving Boone wondering how he was going to survive the next few days alone in a car with this tantalizing bombshell he wanted absolutely no part of.