Lean Stroud is wanted for robbery and a murder he didn't commit. On the run to California with his partner-in-crime, Kenneth, he spots the relentless bounty hunter, Thomas Grady, on the train. The only way to protect Kenneth is to create a distraction, and that's what he does when he flees the train at the top of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. He forces Thomas to chase him, but nothing can prepare him for what it means to be caught.<br><br>Thomas Grady always gets his man, and Leon Stroud is no exception to that rule. But almost from the moment Thomas touches Leon, he wants the outlaw for something besides his bounty. Driven by desire he doesn't understand, he repeatedly claims Leon's body on the long journey from Soda Springs to San Francisco -- and Leon only begs for more. An even bigger threat, with a larger bounty, could be the very thing they need to drive them together. Or tear them apart.

Stealing West

“Stand up.” His voice was hoarse, the words rougher than they should have been.


Water dripped down Leon’s back, sculpting over his backside, as he obeyed. Thomas couldn’t take his eyes off the taut, wet flesh, and he reached out to knead the nearest cheek.


Leon immediately spread his legs, his balls visible through his thighs. “Oh, now, I’ve been waiting for that all day,” he murmured.


Thomas scraped his teeth down the curve of his ass, not quite biting him. His skin was warm from the water, and the drops clung to Thomas’s lips as he brushed his mouth across the top of Leon’s thigh. He cupped Leon’s balls, squeezing them with each flick of his tongue over the taut skin. He imagined how that taut skin would look all warm and flushed from Thomas’s palm.


He hadn’t seen the man move that fast since chasing after him in the valley. It was hard not to smile when he sprawled facedown on the blankets, his head turned in order to grin back at Thomas.


Chapter 25