Amazon Gold by Merline Lovelace

Author:Merline Lovelace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Merline Lovelace
Published: 2021-05-11T00:00:00+00:00

That changed some hours later, when Jack hunkered down beside Charley. They’d finished treating the miners and had let them raid the kitchen tent. The starved workers had emptied the generator-fed meat locker and ripped into every box of canned goods. They’d also found the guards’ stash of Iquiteña. The potent beer was brewed in Iquitos and delivered a special punch. As the sun slipped toward the treetops, the pile of discarded beer bottles reached pyramidal proportions.

“This could get ugly,” Charley murmured when Jack joined her.

“Yeah, I know.” He eyed the miners demolishing yet another case. “I told WhiteFeather to cut them off. They’re not going to like that, but I can’t risk a bloody reprisal.”

Her glance slewed to his face. It still wore jungle paint, smeared now by sweat and exertion. “For a few seconds when you had McMasters in your sights,” she said quietly, “I thought that’s what I was going to see.”

“A bloody reprisal?” He swiveled on his heels. His eyes met hers. “I came damned close to it. I wanted to blow McMasters away so bad, I hurt.”

“I was glad you didn’t. At the time, anyway.”

“And now?”

“Now I wish you’d aimed lower and shot off his balls.”

His laugh rolled out, deep and rich. “Losing your shooting hand is just about as bad as losing your balls in this line of business.”

“Lord, I hope not.”

The quip came out before Charley had time to consider its sexual connotations. When she did, that was all she could consider. Her face heated as she grappled with an instant mental image of Jack naked and sweaty and lodged between her thighs, his equipment most definitely undamaged.

Damn her red hair! Not even her Amazon tan could disguise the flush that rushed into her face. She was probably glowing like a stop light.

No probably about it. The smile in Jack’s eyes told her that much. And the knuckle that came up to graze her cheek told her that his thoughts were running along exactly the same lines.

“Remember what I said, Dawson? About when we get back to Iquitos?”

“Like I could forget.”

She’d tried for flippant, but came out sounding like a total airhead. Jack didn’t seem to mind the breathless response. The smile in his eyes deepening, he traced a circle with his knuckle.

“So what do you say? Want to pick up where we left off?”

She didn’t even try to deny the desire that had been building since the first moment she’d spotted this man at the airport.

“Yes.”

She caught a blur in the periphery of her vision. Had McMasters made a move? He was certainly sitting more stiffly, but that could be due to pain. Shutting him out of her field of view, Charley returned her attention to more important matters.

“What did you have in mind, Halliday?”

“Well…” The back of his hand made another pass over her cheek. “It’ll take me a few days to arrange McMasters’s extradition to the States. While that’s working, you could show me Iquitos.”

Damn! Who knew bare knuckles could rouse such erotic sensations? Charley had to fight to keep from mewling like a jungle kitten.

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