Buckled

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I protect what's mine.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The ranch my family our buried secrets.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nothing will stop me from reassembling the life that went terribly wrong.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not the law.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not our enemies.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not even Maybe Quinn.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The gorgeous quarrelsome journalist shouldn't have meddled.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I shouldn't have let her stay.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But she's hiding something in those deceptive blue eyes.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Something deeper than her thirst for a news story.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I make a deal with her to buy time.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To unravel her lies. To play with her. To satisfy my darker appetites.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When she buckles beneath my belt I'll send her away.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unless I buckle first.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>TRAILS OF SIN series (HEAs with no cliffhangers - must be read in order):</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Knotted #1 - Jake and Conor</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Buckled #2 - Jarret and Maybe</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Booted #3 - Lorne and Raina</span></p>