Beyond passion. And beyond their control
Five years ago, Tuesday Eastwoods life collapsed and left her devastated. After an empty, nomadic existence, shes finally pieced her life back together in the small Oregon town of Hood River. Now Tuesday has everything sorted out. Just so long as men are kept for sex, and only sex
Then she met him.
Musician and rancher Ezra Hurley isnt the man of Tuesdays dreams. Hes a verboten fantasya man tortured by past addictions whose dark charisma and long, lean body promise delicious carnality. But this craving goes far beyond chemistry. Its primal. Its insatiable. And it wont be satisfied until theyre both consumed, body and soul
Broken Open
Lauren Dane
www.millsandboon.co.uk
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This one goes out to the boy who bought me a rum and Coke
in Paris and let me rant at him for hours
after an upsetting phone call.
Thank you for always having my back and feeding me liquor.
Contents
Cover
Back Cover Text
Title Page
Dedication
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Copyright
CHAPTER ONE
Before: December
HER WORKDAY OVER, Tuesday Eastwood turned the display lights up before locking her front doors. Thats when she realized how cold it was and flipped her collar against the wind with one hand while hurrying to where shed parked her car.
As she paused to cross at the corner and look both ways, she caught sight of Ezra Hurley. It wasnt one of those moments when you caught sight of a person and then realized who it was once they got closer.
No, she knew it was Ezra because for some befuddling reason she was hyperaware of him. He looked good as he waited for traffic, a grin on his face.
In the entirety of her life no one had ever made her belly feel the same quivery, excited swoop when she looked at him. At the rugged, masculine lines of his features. Like his brothers, yes, he was attractive. But he wore it differently than the other three brothers did.
Ezra Hurley was a Capital M Man. In that riding horses, baling hay, hands in the dirt, well-worn jeans way. Well-worn jeans that currently cradled a rear end that a sculptor would drool over. The kind of being who seemed to emanate utter capability.
How or why that was so hot to her Tuesday didnt know. But it was.
Even in a wool cap and a peacoat he radiated that something special he tossed around like catnip. In addition to being a rancher, he was a rock star. A onetime hard-living, jet-setting, arena-filling rock star fallen to earth, crashing and burning.
The flames had left him imperfect. But no less compelling.
Hey, Tuesday. He reached the spot where shed been rooted as she thought about him naked.
Ezra. What brings you out tonight?
Errands. I was just planning to grab some dinner and head back home. He paused for just a moment. What are you up to right now? Want to have dinner with me?
She nodded even though she knew it was a bad idea. Ezra wasnt just a gorgeous rancherhugely successful musician with a butt any sane woman would want to take a bite of.
He was also the oldest brother of Tuesdays best friend Natalies boyfriend. It sounded convoluted, sure, but it meant trouble if anything bad happened between Natalie and Paddy, Ezras brother.
Tuesday told herself it was just dinner. No big deal. She and Natalie were close as sisters anyway. She was supposed to be getting to know the people in Nats life now.
She slipped her hand around the crook of his arm and didnt make good choices at all. Im starving.
He led her just up the block to one of her favorite cafés.
The hostess nearly walked into a post showing them to their table because she couldnt tear her gaze from Ezra.
You were very sweet to her, Tuesday murmured when the poor girl stumbled away after hed thanked her.
He ducked his head a moment before he stepped close. Let me help you.
The backs of his fingers slid against the skin of her neck as he pulled her collar away and took the coat off.
She closed her eyes a moment as a full-body shiver of delight rolled through her.