Another Dawn by Sandra Brown

Author:Sandra Brown [Brown, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Adult, Cowboy
ISBN: 9780446356879
Google: ISb-GgAACAAJ
Amazon: 1426209924
Barnesnoble: 1426209924
Goodreads: 520986
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published: 1985-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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FOURTEEN

Jake leaped to his feet. "What the hell are you doing here?"

Banner ignored him and moved closer to the fire. She squatted down in front of it. "Hmm. That coffee smells good."

Jake's hand closed around the plump part of her biceps and hauled her to her feet. "I almost shot you!" he yelled directly into her face. "Don't you know better than to sneak up on somebody that way?"

"I didn't sneak!" She wrenched her arm free. "I've been following you all day. It's a good thing I'm not a robber or a renegade Comanche or something. You'd all be dead."

Micah and Lee couldn't hide their disappointment. They liked Banner's company, but they treasured Jake's. He was their idol. They had looked forward to his introducing mem to the raunchier night life in Fort Worth. Banner's unexpected appearance would no doubt stymie Jake's party mood. He hadn't wanted her along in the first place.

Still, Lee admired his sister's spunk. No other girl he knew would venture out on her own and ride horseback all day the way Banner had. "When did you make up your mind to follow us?" he asked.

Banner dropped her saddlebag on the ground and, after glaring at Jake, knelt to rummage a tin coffee cup out of it. "My mind was already made up. You scattered in three different directions before I had a chance to tell you that I had no intention of canceling my trip just because of a little inconvenience." She sipped at the coffee she had poured herself. It was scalding and thoroughly unpalatable. But she acted as though it were nectar.

"A little inconvenience?" Jake shouted. His temper wasn't extinguished by any means, only simmering. Like an active volcano that belches smoke frequently, he released it in spurts. "You don't know the half of it."

Banner patently ignored him. "I watched you ride out of town, then I bought some clothes more suitable for camping. I left the wagon at the livery and took my suitcases, along with a note to Mama and Papa, to the post office. They'll get them when they pick up the mail. I caught up with you within an hour."

She had addressed her story to Lee and Micah, but Jake responded. "You think you're pretty smart, don't you?"

"I made it here all right."

"Don't try to act like your butt's not as sore as hell, because I know better."

"You know nothing of the sort."

"Tomorrow it'll have blisters on it and—"

"And they will be no concern of yours," she shot back. "I'm fine. I've wanted to camp out all my life but wasn't allowed to simply because I was a girl."

"Which ought to tell you something," Jake said scathingly. "Why are you always trying to be like a man? It's no wonder your fiancé climbed into another woman's bed."

"Jake!" Micah had never thought his brother could say something so cruel.

"Well, why isn't she home cooking and sewing and knitting like other women? She's no good at being a woman, that's why.

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