Heat Lightning by Anne Stuart

Author:Anne Stuart [Stuart, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Impeccably Demure Press

11

Caleb drove home slowly, letting the old truck with its deceptively powerful engine make its way down the gravel roads to the Moon Palace at a leisurely pace. He was feeling restless, edgy, like the wind rushing through the live oaks overhead. He could hear the distant rumble of thunder over the quiet sound of the radio, and he shifted in the seat. People around Turner’s Landing seemed to think that once it rained, people’s tensions would ease.

Personally, he didn’t think it would be that simple. The rain wouldn’t make any difference in his plans for revenge. The rain wouldn’t make him less angry, less determined. Or less horny, for that matter.

Of course, there were any number of ways he could handle the last problem, beginning with Mary-Louise Stevenson. Despite, or maybe because of her relationship with the very married Harrison Turner, she was obviously more than available. He could have offered to drive her home. He could drive back into town and wait outside her mother’s house.

There were other women around who’d made sure he’d feel welcome. He’d been flattered by their offers, but not interested. He was interested tonight.

But he didn’t want a bored housewife, a randy young professional, a lusty divorcee or a precocious teenager.

He wanted Jassy Turner.

He still didn’t know why. Why an ordinary attraction would become an obsession, one that threatened to rival his desperate need for revenge. Sometimes at night he woke up in a sweat, thinking he was back in prison, thinking Harrison was smug, laughing at him, triumphant once more.

But nowadays, just as often, he’d wake up thinking about Jassy, hard and aching for her. And he’d lived long enough, had enough women to know that a substitute wasn’t going to work. It might take the edge off his need, but it wouldn’t obliterate it. It would take Jassy herself to ease him.

That was one reason he’d walked away tonight, after he’d heard her brother’s charming suggestion. Not that he expected her to act on it. She was going through a period of intense disillusionment where her darling brother was concerned. As the man said, she ain’t seen nothing yet.

But she was too damned distracting. If he’d pushed it, taken her back home with him, or even simply pulled her into the woods and stripped that stupid brown dress off her, he’d forget all about Harrison, at least for a while. And he couldn’t afford to do that.

If he had any sense at all, he’d play it safe and forget about Jassy Turner. There were other ways he could get to Harrison, more effective ways. He should concentrate on them, on Harrison’s wife and mistress, both of whom were more vulnerable than Jassy and infinitely tougher. He couldn’t break their hearts. He could smash Jassy’s.

Of course if he were showing sense, interested in playing it safe, he wouldn’t be in Turner’s Landing, stirring up a can of worms. He’d be somewhere else, making good money, the past behind him.

But he couldn’t put the past behind him until he’d dealt with it.

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