Kid Calhoun by Joan Johnston

Author:Joan Johnston [Johnston, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-78950-1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

Jake lay back on the pillow with an arm behind his head and stared at the ceiling. Every so often he took a drag on the cigarette Sierra had rolled and offered to him after they had finished having sex. He scratched around the pink edges of the gunshot wound on his thigh, which itched where it was healing.

The sweat hadn’t dried on his body from the physical exertion of the act, but he felt the need for a woman again. The problem was, he didn’t want the woman lying beside him. She had satisfied the desires of his body, but not the needs of his soul.

In the past, whenever Jake had needed a woman, he had found a willing one and taken what he wanted. Not that he hadn’t given pleasure in return. Jake wasn’t so selfish as that. This time he had sought out a woman to fulfill his need, but his body refused to be satisfied with the intense physical release he had found. It wanted something more. He wanted something more.

Anabeth Calhoun.

There, he had admitted it. He wanted her and only her. There was a fire in his body that sought out an answering flame. An ache in his soul that sought out an answering solace. As much as he wished it were not true, the only woman who could satisfy the burning within him was an enticing young female locked into a second-story room in a boardinghouse on the other side of town.

Jake frowned when he thought of any woman having that sort of power over him—over his happiness. Hadn’t he learned his lesson from his mother? He might want Anabeth Calhoun like hell, but that didn’t mean he had to succumb to her allure. The sooner he said good-bye to her, the better.

He looked down and realized his body had hardened at just the thought of her, the blood pumping through his shaft, engorging it painfully.

“Hell and the devil.”

“You say something, Jake?”

Jake stubbed out his cigarette in a tray on the bedside table, then sat up and began pulling on his jeans. Sierra rolled over in bed to admire the play of sinewy muscles in his back. She reached out a hand to touch him, but let it drop when he stood and moved away from her.

Sierra sat up, letting the covers slide down to her waist, exposing a lush female figure still covered with a faint sheen of perspiration from the lovemaking just past.

“You seem in a godawful hurry, Jake. I must be losing my touch.”

Jake threw a wry glance over his shoulder. “Just remembered something I’ve got to do.” He pulled some bills out of his pocket without counting them.

Before he could lay them on the bedside table Sierra said, “Save your money. The pleasure was all mine.”

Jake met her gaze and saw the pride there—and the regret. “Thanks, Sierra. I …”

How could he explain his desire to leave this room as quickly as possible. His urgent need to see the lithe young woman who had been the bane of his existence since the moment he had first met her.

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