Fires Of Cricket Bend Trilogy: Books 1-3 by Marie Piper

Author:Marie Piper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Bill

Emma’s kisses that night felt tense. As soon as they’d snuck away from the others, she’d melted into his arms. Yet as they’d progressed toward lovemaking, he could tell something had changed. Something was different. It was obvious her thoughts were elsewhere.

“What’s wrong?” He dragged his lips against the soft part of her ear.

Emma bent her head, giving him all of her neck for teasing. “Nothing.”

Bill pulled back just enough so their foreheads touched. “Tell me.”

“Don’t you dare stop kissing me.”

The ferocity of her touches and embrace startled him. She pushed him on his back to the ground and unbuckled his pants with an intense focus, as if she were trying to fight off something—loneliness or heartache, perhaps sadness. Whatever it was, Bill aimed to help her, but she didn’t seem to need much help as she shifted herself onto his body and began to move. He lay back and watched her, the woman with the hair like fire. Soon, she had banished all worries from his mind. All that remained was the fine feeling of Emma loving him. She loved him long and hard and completely and took what she needed from him as well. He didn’t mind one bit.

Afterward, she was still distant when they lay together. Her elegant body may have been snuggled next to his, but her mind was millions of miles away.

“Do you want me to go?” he asked.

“No,” she answered.

He tried a different tactic. “You see those three stars in a line right there? Those make Orion’s belt. Those stars there, and there, when you put them all together, it makes Orion, the Hunter. Orion told everyone who would listen that he was going to kill all the animals. Then, Gaia, she got mad at him.”

“Rightfully so,” Emma answered.

“So she sent a scorpion after him, but it didn’t work.”

“And then what?”

“I don’t recall the rest, to tell you the truth. Mama taught us the stars, but it was a long time ago. Said we could always find our way home if we could find the North Star. She’s the one who named Orion, and most of the other horses. Said they had souls, so they should have names. Your Maggie is named for my grandmother.”

“Sounds like your mama is quite a woman.”

“You think my pa is stubborn, you wouldn’t believe her.”

“Heavens,” Emma replied. “It’s a wonder they don’t kill each other.”

“Sometimes I wonder. What about your folks?”

“I never knew my pa,” she said. “I hear tell he was a preacher, of the fire and brimstone kind.”

“Thought preachers weren’t supposed to marry,” Bill said.

“Oh, he didn’t marry my mama,” Emma replied. “I’m the middle of three girls, and my mama had her hands full with keeping us fed and the fire lit from sunup to sundown all by herself. She got old long before her time, and taught me the most important thing I could do was to catch myself a husband before I got old and haggard, when no man would want me.”

“You disagreed,” Bill said.

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