
Shadow Lies
by Linda Conrad
Naomi Ayze’s daughter Emily has been kidnapped by Skinwalkers, evil shapeshifters that have been terrorizing the Navajo people! Naomi will do anything to get her little girl back, including turning to her high school sweetheart, Junior Gashie, a man she hasn’t forgiven for abandoning her seven years ago!
Recently returned to the Four-Corners reservation, Junior Gashie is shocked when he finds his first love slumped over the wheel of her car. He had hoped never to see Naomi again—after all, when she went away to school seven years ago, she never looked back. But now, the woman he’d once planned to marry needs his help to find her missing child!
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Chapter Nineteen
A safe place was nearby: Junior’s own clan’s summer hogan. He settled them down there and they worked to make the child comfortable.
“She’s okay,” Junior said, as he followed Naomi through the door and into the old-fashioned outdoor kitchen in back. “Her pulse is strong and her breathing is good. She’ll be fine when the drugs wear off.”
Naomi looked into his eyes, worshipping. “You’ve saved her life, Junior.”
Flustered by that steady gaze, he stood and eased away. As much as he wanted to devour her, he didn’t do it. She was still the only woman for him. Saving her child, working together only made him more aware of how much he needed.
They belonged to each other. He wanted his life back.
But not now. “I think I should hike out to where the cell signal is stronger and call the Brotherhood. You two will be okay alone. I won’t be—”
Naomi flung herself into his arms, hungrily staking her claim on his mouth, suddenly greedy. With his blood pulsating, he slanted his mouth over hers. Both of their hands went everywhere at once. Instantly he was hard and desperate.
“I still love you,” she moaned. “Want you.”
She pulled her shirt over her head. The sight of her made his knees weak and his heart pound. Panting hard, he feasted on one of her nipples. Squirming as he laved, she shoved her jeans down and off, then tore at his zipper.
Too fast. His head was spinning as he stroked and aroused them both beyond measure.
She reached out, put her hand around him and squeezed. Not fast enough. In a daze, he hitched her legs around his waist, and like lightening he was inside her. Home.
With hands firmly holding her bottom, he slammed into her right where he stood. Primal, savage, so full of passion and need, he was beyond civilized. This was no young girl he held, but her womanly fullness and curves nevertheless were like a familiar meal. One he had craved forever.
“Junior!” she screamed as he felt her tighten around him. Her nails clawed at his shoulders. She bit him through his shirt.
The world stopped as she arched her back in climax. His throbbing erection, so long denied, took him over the edge, too.
They were back where they belonged. And there was no way he was ever letting her go.
In a few minutes, her body slumped against him, and he was forced to let her drop to her feet. Disheveled but still so sexy he immediately wanted more, she stared up at him with glassy eyes and straightened her clothes.
“I meant what I said, Junior. I didn’t do this because you saved Emily. Thank you for that. But I do love you. I’ve never stopped loving you. I’m sorry for...everything.”
“The past wasn’t your fault,” he murmured. “And I hope you aren’t sorry for what just happened here.”
Shaking her head, she looked lost. He wanted to hold her in his arms again, but she took a step back.
“I was so heartbroken when I thought you didn’t love me,” she said. “And angry. To spite you I went out with the first guy who asked.”
She drew a breath. “Turns out he was married. But I can’t be sorry, Junior. He gave me Emily.”
To be continued…


























