Jake's Way (Wounded Heroes Collection Book 1) by Dreyer Eileen & Korbel Kathleen

Author:Dreyer,Eileen & Korbel,Kathleen [Dreyer,Eileen & Korbel,Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eileen Dreyer, LLC
Published: 2016-10-05T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Jake’s eyes popped open as if they’d been spring-loaded. “What?”

Amanda just smiled and lifted the bottle of liniment she’d carried in. “The remedy.”

Jake looked over and scowled. “A back rub?”

“The best,” she assured him, moving around to the front of the couch. “Sure to cure all ills.”

“But I just got this shirt on,” he protested, still not moving.

“You do the buttons and I’ll do the rest.”

Jake groaned and closed his eyes again. “I don’t suppose I could talk you out of this.”

“Do you know how sore you’re going to be tomorrow if you don’t get those muscles relaxed a little?” she demanded.

She almost lost her train of thought when she looked down on him to see the firelight wash his forehead. Shadows collected in the hollows of his cheeks and flickered through the fan of dark lashes. They pooled into the hollow of his throat like dark water, and Amanda couldn’t think past wanting to dip her tongue in it and drink.

“I am relaxing them,” Jake protested, still not moving. “I’m laying them down on this couch.”

“Not good enough. Come on, be a big boy and get it over with so I can get some sleep.”

“I don’t suppose there are any alternatives that let me stay right here,” he countered, his voice gravelly with weariness.

Amanda couldn’t help the smile. The only alternative she could think of wouldn’t have been found in any book of medicine, folklore or otherwise. But, oh, as she looked down at the whipcord body stretched out on that couch, at the soft, beaten denim jeans that fit so snugly, she wouldn’t have minded trying.

Jake caught her in that smile. When she let her gaze stray back up to his face, it was to find those icy blue eyes focused on her. Those icy eyes that suddenly looked so curiously like flame. They stole Amanda’s breath and shattered her sense. She could feel the scarlet flush of exposure creep up her cheeks.

“Amanda,” Jake grated, his jaw tight again.

She came very close to giving in to the instincts that chorused in her, instincts older than time, instincts that fed on the sight of fire-warmed skin, the sound of a rasping breath, the smell of leather and hard work and fresh wind.

At the last minute she reeled her control back in and turned her attention to uncapping the liniment. “No negotiations,” she insisted, nudging his leg with her own. “Get the damn back rub or I just pour the liniment over your head and leave you here to freeze.”

In the end, she sat behind him on the couch pouring liniment into her hands. Jake waited, his head down, his elbows on his thighs, the firelight flickering in his hair and along the sleek lines of his bare arms. Amanda set the bottle back down and turned to her work.

She did her best to remain objective. Jake was as tight as a guidewire, his muscles knotted beneath her fingers. She kneaded and rubbed, working from his neck down, over

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