Mending Hope (Contemporary Western Romance) (License to Love Series:Book 2) by Amelia Rose Read Free Book Online

it was like to not be a whole woman.  His denying me that chance felt like a betrayal, and I told him to leave. I didn’t know there would be someone texting and driving…I didn’t know…”
    By the end she was in full out sobs, the tears choking up her ability to speak.  He stroked her head and held her even tighter.
    No wonder she’s so lost, he thought. 
    After a little bit she stopped crying and looked at him.  He knew she was studying him, trying to see if he was judging her guilt in the same measure that she was. 
    “I can tell you that it was not your fault,” Woody said in an attempt to console her.  “I can show you how the fight and the accident had absolutely no correlation.   But guilt is a tricky thing.  It is something that you carry with you, and there is almost nothing anyone else can say or do that will take it away until you’re willing to let go.”
    For the first time since he had met her a week ago, Alyssa’s face did not have an undercurrent of pain.  She breathed a sigh of relief.  “I think I needed to hear someone say that.”
    With that he leaned down and kissed her, her mouth was soft and the embrace gentle.  Even though they had just finished, he felt the heat beginning to stir in him again.  She responded in kind, leaning into him and softly moaning.  This time when they met it was filled with softness with each kiss, each embrace taking on new levels of meaning.  They kissed for some time, enjoying each other and holding on to one another as the passion slowly began to build.
    Woody had never had such a deep and sensual experience before, and this time when they were finished they both collapsed in each other’s arms, shaking with ecstasy and filled with abandon.
     

Chapter 6
     
    It had been almost two weeks since that night in the stable, but that hadn’t stopped Woody and Alyssa from being together as much as possible.  Alyssa was staying in one of the old farm hand apartments that were built onto the main house just on a secondary wing.  She used her time during the day to write, while Woody was working at the garage but he had been coming over and staying with her at night.
    Neither of them really wanted to tell anyone else just yet.  There was something special to having a relationship that was completely new that should be initially left off the radar.  It was like a shiny new toy that neither of them wanted to spoil. 
    Woody had taken to riding his motorcycle over to the house and parking in the large attached garage that was generally used for farm equipment.  Usually he would get up and leave early in the morning to head back to the garage.  Today, however, was different.
    That was because today was the first day of the trial for Chuck Sanders, the stalker who had almost succeeded in kidnapping Clara.  Because of that, Woody and Alyssa were eating breakfast together before going into town to the courthouse.  Woody had decided to stay all night.  He figured that everyone would probably be too busy to notice, or to care, where he was coming from. 
    Alyssa slipped out from between the covers as quietly as she could and walked to the door, leaving his sleeping form on the bed as she started to shower.  He hadn’t been able to sleep in since he’d been staying with her, and she wanted to make sure that she gave him the chance to do so now.
    The water was welcoming as she stood beneath the stream, letting the warmth spread through her muscles and across her entire body.  She was so enthralled with letting it run across her flesh that she didn’t hear Woody enter the bathroom until he pulled back the curtain and entered the shower behind her.
    “Were you just going to leave me out?” he asked, smiling. 
    Alyssa smiled and gave a short chuckle back.  “I thought you might want to catch a little extra sleep,” she told him before looking down at his engorged member and taking it in her free hand, slowly stroking it as he watched her. “But I