His Christmas Gift by Sarah Mayberry

Author:Sarah Mayberry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781943963546
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2015-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

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Sawyer lay in bed with his arms crossed behind his head, thinking about Jenna.

There’d been a moment there toward the end when they’d been saying goodbye when the urge to close the distance between them and kiss her had gripped him so fiercely it had been like a fist squeezing his gut.

The need to touch her, to taste her had almost overridden every other thought. Then she’d said goodnight, and he’d remembered all the reasons why it would be really dumb to try to put the moves on his sister’s lawyer. For starters, they were trapped in this cabin together.

Well, at least until Jenna felt well enough to drive home. Which would probably be tomorrow, from the way she was talking.

He didn’t want her to go.

He wanted more of her laughter. He wanted more games of Scrabble, and he wanted to know more about her. The sadness in her face and voice when she’d talked about her mother’s death had just about done him in. He wanted to know so many things about her. He wanted to ask why she’d become a lawyer. He wanted to hear about her family – her sister, her father.

He shifted restlessly against the sheets, frustrated with the forces at war within himself – need versus duty, recklessness versus pragmatism. Because even if Jenna wanted to kiss him, even if the way he felt when he touched her wasn’t one-sided, he was still a guy who grew trees for a living in a small town in Montana, and she was still a polished, highly-educated woman who was used to the bright lights of the city. Not that Billings was New York City, but it might as well be when compared with Marietta.

He’d never been into flings. God knew, he’d tried when he was younger, but he’d soon learned that he simply wasn’t built for casual. He liked for sex to mean more than body parts rubbing together, for sleeping with a woman to be about more than pleasure. His entire adult life, he’d never entered into a relationship knowing in advance how it was going to end. He simply didn’t see the point. There had to be possibility there – a question that needed to be answered – and he wasn’t sure there was one with Jenna. She was so much like his ex, Sheriden. And look how that had turned out.

Jenna is not Sheriden.

In his head, he knew that. Jenna was softer, less aggressive in the way she went after what she wanted. There was a reserve in her that Sheriden hadn’t possessed, either. His ex had always seemed supremely certain of her place in the world, and what she deserved. He didn’t get that sense with Jenna, at all.

Maybe he should have just kissed her. Maybe he should have simply gone with his gut – and regions further south – and seen what happened.

Too late, idiot.

She was going home tomorrow. He’d missed his big chance and it was unlikely he’d get another one like it.

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