Like Silk

Like Silk
Mary Lynn Baxter

The moment Collier Smith pulled to a stop on that rainy Tennessee mountain road and gently led the dazed, badly bruised woman into the warmth and safety of his car, his own life was shattered.Brittany Banks was the wrong woman at the wrong time. But could there ever be a right time? He was a high-powered attorney on the fast track for a federal judgeship, engaged to a prominent socialite. Brittany Banks was a vulnerable beauty from the wrong side of town. And, in a cruel twist of fate, she was a reminder of the past he had struggled to forget. So why her, why now? Why this insatiable longing, this fierce need to protect her, to possess her–a need that will drive him deeper into her world…perhaps at the cost of his own.

“Please…”

Her voice, in that broken plea, jerked him back to the moment at hand. “Please what?”

“Don’t take me to the hospital.”

So she wasn’t catatonic after all. Or in total shock. Both good signs that filled him with relief. At least it didn’t appear she was going to collapse on him, a fear he hadn’t heretofore wanted to address.

“That’s where you belong,” he stressed, disturbed anew that she would even hesitate.

“If you try to make me go, I’ll get out of the car.”

“And do what?” He knew his sarcasm was lost on her, but he couldn’t stop the words.

“Keep walking.”

“And die?”

“That wouldn’t be a bad thing,” she said, her voice breaking.

“With a keen sense of characterization and emotions, Ms. Baxter will please. The story is charming.”

—Romantic Times on Tempting Janey

Like Silk

Mary Lynn Baxter

www.mirabooks.co.uk (http://www.mirabooks.co.uk)

Contents

Chapter One (#u214ec19d-288c-54dd-9800-d769fae70b06)

Chapter Two (#u55a685c1-9e61-510c-b2ac-a9233b343dbb)

Chapter Three (#u3acfd7a1-d812-557c-8276-beb4ebd2611f)

Chapter Four (#ucacc6dd3-1e1a-5e16-a2de-df1a62fd87e1)

Chapter Five (#u991f9023-b245-5f1c-a5c4-ea235c966788)

Chapter Six (#uf076ae86-0d40-561a-b14a-00f587e1db2a)

Chapter Seven (#u58ff8310-0e19-5e84-821f-0ab869961446)

Chapter Eight (#u3b1681ed-9eec-5036-b2d4-92829f154dfd)

Chapter Nine (#u0ab3f5d6-a333-5ed3-83ca-b1058bf652c8)

Chapter Ten (#uc012b097-0084-5800-8dbb-fc4f1ad368ba)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)