Unbridled

Unbridled
Tori Carrington

Carter is in jail when classy Laney strides in on her mile-long legs. This naughty bad boy’s lawyer-client privilege is about to take a sizzling detour!The sex is hot and wild – totally unbridled! But scorching the sheets is all this guy from the wrong side of the tracks can do with an uptown girl… right?

Dear Reader,

Wouldn’t it be nice if everything were either black or white? Good or evil? Wrong or right? Honestly, though, don’t you think it would also be unbearably boring? It’s one of the reasons we take great thrill in exploring the shades of gray that come between.

In Unbridled, hot, suspended Marine Carter Southard (from Branded) is cleared by sexy defense attorney Laney Cartwright of a civilian crime he didn’t commit, but he still must jump through military hoops if he hopes to be reinstated. As out of his league as Laney may be, he can’t help wanting to mess up her pristine existence just a little bit. But when steamy, no-strings sex evolves into much, much more, they must wrestle with their preconceptions of each other…as well as their own misconceptions of themselves.

We hope you enjoy Carter and Laney’s sizzling and sometimes heart-wrenching journey toward sexily-ever-after. We’d love to hear what you think. Contact us at P.O. Box 12271, Toledo, OH 43612, USA (we’ll respond with a signed bookplate, newsletter and bookmark), or visit us on the web at www.toricarrington.net.

Here’s wishing you love, romance and hot reading.

Lori and Tony Karayianni

aka Tori Carrington

About the Author

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Career Achievement Award-winning, bestselling husband-and-wife duo LORI and TONY KARAYIANNI are the power behind the pen name Tori Carrington. Their forty novels include numerous Blaze® novels, as well as the ongoing Sofie Metropolis, PI, comedic mystery series with another publisher. Visit www.toricarrington.net and www. sofiemetro.com for more information on the couple and their titles.

Unbridled

Tori Carrington

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

We dedicate this book to the fellow shades-of-gray travelers everywhere: enjoy the journey!

And, as always, to our editor extraordinaire, Brenda Chin, who has a knack for seeing the forest and the trees.

Table of Contents

Cover (#ubcaa95de-5a23-55b8-8a73-b05ff0678253)

About the Author (#u15bb2548-7310-5c29-8873-4b9f31cfe1ec)

Title Page (#u92d34f76-4e1e-5aac-b44c-3478617fb1cc)

Dedication (#u1cbc43f0-ddaa-5db7-863a-6b8513b35312)

Prologue (#uba991ba6-7771-54c4-90cd-6a5bc15e1d97)

Chapter One (#uddeb33bf-a00a-581f-98ac-a132c815555e)

Chapter Two (#u6cef5d3e-3710-5a8f-b2d0-02666bcca09c)

Chapter Three (#u678edf7f-07fc-5c83-a784-d14dc5c52d70)

Chapter Four (#uf7337ade-d2c3-5ce2-af73-b5e8e2071df6)

Chapter Five (#u5d8f98ae-6ab5-54d2-8a64-153376ecfc58)

Chapter Six (#u1c0bcf06-a51f-5272-92ad-b392e90c5624)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

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)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

Prologue

FREEDOM WAS JUST a word…until you lost it. After you were put into a steel box and stripped of your personal belongings and your name, owning nothing more than a number and the crime for which you were charged.

“Inmate 55687, collect your things. You’ve been given your wings.”

Carter Southard stared at the guard from where he lay on the hard top bunk in the four-by-nine-foot cell in the San Antonio County Jail. The words couldn’t be meant for anyone else, because his bunk mate had been moved to a different cell the day before. Still, he couldn’t help considering the imagery. He’d just been given his wings.

He closed the Steinbeck novel he was reading and got to his feet. He’d stopped even hoping for his release two days into his incarceration five days ago. Since he’d been wrongfully accused of a crime, there was no reason to believe things would be set right. Not so long as he was locked away, unable to prove his innocence.