A Feather in the Rain by Alex Cord

Author:Alex Cord
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Five Star Publications, Inc.
Published: 2005-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

46

Let’s Go Look

She came into the candlelit bedroom in a rich parade of hair and perfume. At the candle, she lit a stick of incense and fitted it to the holder she carried.

Jesse stretched on the bed. “Did you bring that with you?”

“Yeah. Since I first left home. Makes a hotel room seem nicer.”

He reached up and took her into his arms, easing her to the bed. He sat up and crossed his legs under him. She was propped against the pillows. He looked at her with a longing so intense that her breath caught in a little gasp. Slowly, she leaned forward and put her lips sweet as lilies of the valley against his. Her eyes closed. He felt her fingers in his hair as he wondered how this would end. How would he endure her leaving?

They slept in the lingering vapors of amorous twinings till Jesse woke in the still dark with that awful sense of dread. Tomorrow morning, he would drive her to the airport and when he got back to the ranch, she would not be there. She felt him shift and turned her sleepy face. “I didn’t hear the rooster,” She whispered.

“He hasn’t said anything yet.” As the words left his lips, the rooster sucked in, lungs full, he blasted his alarm to the hills. “Until now…”

They sat on the porch in silence with cooling coffee cups and watched the sun like a busted yolk oozing along the eastern ridge. He felt her turn to look at him. It took a while before she said, “Hey, Mr. Desperado, Mr. Outlaw Jesse James, you’ve got work to do. You better git to gittin’.” She stood up. “C’mon, hurry up, let’s go…”

He locked his fingers across the top of his head and watched the yolk become whole as it rose above the ridge. “Let’s go look at that colt Lamar was talking about.”

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