Breed True by Gem Sivad

Author:Gem Sivad [Sivad, Gem]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9781451511055
Google: 6H99RAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1451511051
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

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Every day Jewel tried to build back her wall of resistance, and every night Grady Hawks proved her defenses against him weak. Her body turned to him, craving the feel of his touch as much as he seemed to need to explore her with his hands.

Why he remained alone in his bed without fully consummating the marriage was a mystery to her, but each evening he increased their intimacy and her protests helplessly fell before his will.

When he bent to brush his lips against hers each morning, she was swept by the heat that he'd kindled the night before. Every day she spent scrubbing the cabin and working fiercely to deny the feelings he aroused before he left.

The men who accompanied him into the cabin each night for supper received the brunt of her pent-up emotions. They didn't disrespect her, they ignored her. In itself, that was not a bad thing. But it piqued her sense of pride that the men ate the food she knew was well prepared without so much as a Thank you, or That was good.

She focused on righting that wrong, since she had no control over the man who challenged her determination to remain aloof.

Grady had carried a bushel of fall apples into the house the night before. Jewel spent all day peeling fruit for dessert that when baked, filled the cabin with the aroma of apples, cinnamon, and sugar.

As usual, the men filed in, following Grady to the table where the meal waited for them. All the men, including her husband, sniffed the air, looking for the source of the delicious scent. When nothing was apparent, they sat down and quickly made their way through the potatoes, carrots, and beef roast she'd prepared. They remained silent, waiting for her to leave. When she didn't, the men remained mute, even after they'd emptied all the dishes and platters and consumed the last of her homemade bread.

Jewel had strategized her protest and instead of leaving as usual so that the men could speak openly, she asked, "Do you men like apple cobbler?" She set the hot apple confection on the table as she asked. As usual, her words were ignored as if she had not spoken. Grady Hawks watched her with interest this time, just as he had at every meal she battled wills with them.

"Guess you fellows don't like apple cobbler." She whisked it off the table after her initial question remained unanswered. Rowdy, knife in hand, was in the process of reaching for the dessert and howled. "Hell, yes, I like apple cobbler. I like apple pie too.

Ain't much made with apples I don't like."

She cut a big slice of the hot cobbler and put it steaming on his plate. Then she carried the rest to the sideboard and set it down, standing guard over it so that it wasn't disturbed.

Grady Hawks rose from his chair and walked to where she stood barring the way to her cobbler as she dared the men to trespass and risk injury.

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