Loving Jackson (Wishing Well, Texas Book 10) by Melanie Shawn

Author:Melanie Shawn [Shawn, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Western, romance
Publisher: Red Hot Reads Publishing
Published: 2020-09-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Jackson

“Great loves are like the hiccups, darling. You never know when you’ll get them or how long they’ll last.”

~ Josephine Grace Clarke

The town of Harper’s Crossing was no less charming than Firefly Island. In all my travels around the globe, I was beginning to discover that some of the greatest treasures were right here in my backyard.

As much as I’d loved exploring the world, I was starting to think that I missed being home. And that wasn’t the only thing I’d come to realize. Before I met Josie, I’d never thought there was anything missing, but now I knew that wasn’t true. I was missing inspiration and I’d found it in her. For the first time in my life, I had a muse.

I’d studied art. I’d seen the greatest masterpieces in the world. I’d heard of artists having muses, but I’d never truly appreciated the concept or understood the gravity of that phenomenon.

Until I’d laid eyes on Josie Clarke.

The woman captivated me in a way I hadn’t even known existed. She was mysterious yet open. Reserved yet outgoing. Happy but also sad. A complex puzzle that I would gladly spend the rest of my life trying to solve if given the chance.

And last night, the intoxicating combination of her vulnerability combined with her sensuality was almost too much for me to process. I hadn’t been able to sleep at all. I’d spent hours just staring at her while she’d slept. Finally, I forced myself to leave her room because I realized that if she woke up to find me looking at her, that might be creepy as fuck.

I hadn’t been able to help myself, though. It was more than just her outer beauty that mesmerized me. It was all the things that I’d listed to her grandmother. Everything she did, every word she spoke, every expression that crossed her face, every movement she made, every breath she took pulled me deeper under her spell.

As I stood on the bank of the river that ran through the center of town and finished setting up, I stole another look at Josie, who’d barely said a word to me since she’d bolted out of the car after hanging up the call. I hadn’t meant to embarrass her with my answer, I hadn’t even meant to say the things I had, but when I’d looked at her, it all just sort of came out.

That kept happening around her. I was helpless when it came to her. It was as if I was being controlled by an outside force that I was powerless to resist. She overrode my common sense and my self-control.

Just like last night in the bathroom. Once I’d made sure that the scorpion I’d safely returned to the outdoors hadn’t left any friends behind, my intention was to walk right past her, go back to my room, and do my damnedest not to jerk off to the image of her naked body that was forever seared into my mind.

Instead, I’d found

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