Heart of Stone by Angela Claire

Author:Angela Claire [Claire, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Siren Classic
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2011-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

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When Melinda was gone, Winthrop yanked off his hat, slapped it against his knee with a laugh and then re-perched it on his head. “My, my, Jake, that’s a pretty little piece you got there.”

Jake clenched his teeth, not surprised. He’d known it was coming, not least of all from the lecherous look Winthrop had given Melinda upon first introduction.

“Did you want to talk to me about something?”

“I did, but the tits on that girl put it right clear out of my mind.”

“That’s enough.”

Winthrop ignored him.

“It’s fine to have a little something on the side, but right in the house alone with you, and a white girl at that? You’re bold, Jake, I’ll give you that.”

It was no use trying to talk to old man Winthrop. Despite having a daughter, the old man treated women like shit. He had a Mexican woman who worked in his kitchen. He told everyone far and wide he was fucking her, and the poor woman didn’t look too happy about it either. Likely the old man didn’t give her a choice if she wanted to keep her job, and there wasn’t much work for a woman, a Mexican woman especially, out here.

“Makes me wish I had a little one for her to look after. Though I imagine she looks after something pretty big for you, too, don’t she, Jake?”

“I have to get going, Mr. Winthrop.”

The old man caught his arm genially. “I’m just funning with you, Jake. And call me Lou. How many times I got to tell you that, boy? Anyway, don’t make no difference to me whether you’re giving it to that nice little girl or not. Only point I should make here is your wife won’t like it when you’re married. You’ll have to make other arrangements with the girl then. Maybe Sally’s…”

“Melinda is not a whore, whatever you choose to think. And I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, I’m not remarrying. I had enough of having a wife the first time.”

“You just had the wrong wife. Now my little Regina, western born and bred and pretty as a picture...”

Jake expected him to start quoting him a price any minute now. The man was shameless. “And if I did remarry,” he interrupted, just to get Winthrop off his back some, “who’s to say Melinda might not be right for me? My little girl loves her like her very own mama, and, well, as you noticed, she’s not exactly hard on the eyes.”

For a second that shut the old man up. But not for long. “A little piece of trash like that? Why, she’s probably poor as a church mouse, and why pay for what you can get for free?”

Jake finally pulled his arm away from the man. “As I said, I don’t intend to remarry. Just food for thought if I ever did.”

He left the old man without giving him the last word, for once.

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