Long, Tall Texans: Jobe by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1997-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

If Sandy had hoped to avoid Jobe’s offer of a date, the rain didn’t stop him. He came looking for her late that afternoon, after the hay was in.

It was dark and rainy outside and Sandy had been sitting in the garden room out back, watching the rain come down on the pecan trees.

Jobe found her there, curled up on a sofa in white slacks and a brief blue top.

“Avoiding me?” he asked quietly.

She sat up abruptly, flustered. “Why, no, of course not.”

He moved right into the room, took off his hat and sat down beside her on the sofa. “I like thrillers,” he said without preamble. “There’s one at the theater downtown. If you’d rather see something else, I believe there’s a comedy at the Grand.”

“I like thrillers.”

He nodded. “We can have a pizza or a burger and fries before we go to see it. Or there’s a cafeteria, if you’d like that better.”

He was testing her, she concluded, to see if she minded an inexpensive meal.

She searched his eyes for a long moment. “I don’t have to go to the best restaurants or to the opera or a play, in case that’s what you were thinking,” she said gently. “I like a burger and fries, and movies suit me very well.”

“It isn’t what you’re used to, though,” he added. He sighed. “To tell you the truth, I had second thoughts about asking you out at all.” He twirled his hat in his hands. “Maybe it’s a bad idea.”

She didn’t know what to say. She shifted a little. “Whatever you want to do is fine,” she said.

“Is that so?” His eyes glittered. He threw his hat on the floor, caught her around the waist and bore her down on the sofa, finding her mouth with his at the same instant.

She couldn’t get enough air to breathe, much less to protest. He was rough with her, as if her reply had angered him. There was no hesitation, no tenderness, in his demanding mouth or the weight of his body over hers.

She made a soft sound of protest and he relented, lifting his head to glare at her.

“This is what I want to do,” he said harshly, looking at her as if he hated her. “It’s what I’ve wanted to do since you were seventeen, damn it!”

She paled, seeing the self-loathing written all over his face. He wanted her and hated himself for it. If she had dreams of happily ever after, they turned to ashes from the look in his eyes.

Suppressing quick tears of anger and disappointment, she put both hands against his shirt-front and pushed.

“Let me up, please,” she said through her teeth.

To her surprise, he did. He got to his feet and whipped his hat off the floor with an angry hand.

“I don’t want to go out with you, thanks all the same,” she said in a choked tone. She sidestepped him and the instant she was an arm’s length away, she ran all the way upstairs, into her room, locking the door behind her.

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