Distilled Heat by Jennifer Bramseth

Author:Jennifer Bramseth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Woodford Press

Jon told Drake the day after Glenda’s funeral he was dating Pepper. Although he’d previously promised Pepper he’d reveal the truth to Drake about his interest in her, that promise had been made the day of Glenda’s fall and death. He’d not had the chance to make his confession in the whirlwind of activity following.

It didn’t go well.

Drake was angry Jon had kept his feelings about Pepper to himself as he’d warned him away from the lovely redhead. But the confrontation didn’t dissolve into a shouting match. His personal and professional relationship with his new law partner had taken a blow from which it might not recover, but at least the truth was out.

He then had to tell Bruce.

As expected, the senior partner was very unhappy with the news.

“So we lose the wealthiest woman in the county as a client, and we’ll probably lose Drake as a new partner. Great, Jon. Just great.”

He’d then become the equivalent of the guy with a kick me sign on his back.

If there were some nasty client to handle or unpleasant job to be done, he was the one Bruce and Drake dumped the problem on. He’d protested at first (he hated representing people in divorces, but Bruce had dropped three new cases on him in the past week), but eventually surrendered. It was the price he paid for the truth and for being with Pepper—although they hadn’t been together in the biblical way since that quick and crazy afternoon at Hannah’s.

No matter. He could wait. He knew what was waiting for him and that it was more than worth it.

Because Jon wasn’t thinking only about getting Pepper back into bed with him (although he did think quite a lot about that, especially during all those showers he seemed to be taking lately). Jon was thinking long-term.

Forever.

Marriage.

The house, two cars, kids, and walking off into the sunset.

And about a hundred horses and who knew how many acres of Bluegrass.

The thought had crept up on him when he had been going through some files that needed to be sent to storage. Most of them were a few years old and closed and ready to be stored off-site. He’d looked at some of the files, seen the age on them, and thought about what he had been doing with his life two, three, or even five years earlier when he’d been working on the files.

The answer was easy. He’d been working.

That was pretty much it. No more wife, and if he had a girlfriend during those times he couldn’t quite remember the dates.

The musings over the passage of time made him cast a thought or two toward the future, and where he’d be in a similar amount of time.

And every time he thought of the future, Pepper was there, in every place he could imagine.

They were at her house or somewhere out on the farm, or walking hand in hand through town. And when he realized that’s what he wanted, he started wanting it to happen sooner rather than later.

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