Montgomery 08 - The Temptress by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780671743840
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 1991-03-15T05:00:00+00:00

"You think they just left it?" He started down the hill the opposite way she'd come, pulling her behind him.

She kept her head down against the pelting rain, tripping along behind him. "Where are we going?"

"Home! To your father. You've taken twenty years off my life already and I don't have many more left."

"But what about Asher? They're going to kill Lionel and blame it on Asher."

"That's his worry. You're mine." He stopped at a saddled horse and helped her up, then mounted behind her.

"Can we get back this way?"

"We can get to your father's this way."

"Tynan," she said, turning in the saddle and putting her arms around his chest. "We can't leave Asher there. We have to go back and warn him.

Please." She looked up at him with pleading eyes.

He studied her for a moment. "All right, damn it. We'll warn him but then you go."

"Yes, Tynan," she said, still holding onto him as they rode. His muscles under her cheek completely blotted out the thrashing of the rain and the slash of the lightning.

He was traveling as fast as the laden horse would go when its front hooves suddenly came off the ground and Ty fought to control the horse and hold Chris in the saddle.

"Damn!" he said in a way that made Chris twist around to look.

Lightning had struck the bridge, and the swollen stream was far too violent to cross.

"We'll have to go back the other way," Chris said, looking up at him.

"There is no bridge on the other side."

He was holding the reins of the horse tightly, both of them drenched with rain, lightning all around them—yet Tynan made no effort to move.

"Hadn't we better go?" Chris asked, wiping water out of her eyes. "This storm is getting worse."

"There's nowhere to go," Tynan said. "We're cut off from the main road and there's only virgin forest north of us."

"Ty! It's getting dark. We can't stay here all night. Is there any shelter nearby? The water will recede after the storm's over."

Ty didn't answer, just sat there looking at the raging, deep stream.

"Tynan!" Chris yelled up at him. "Let's go back into the trees. Maybe we can find a rock overhanging or something."

"There's a logger's cabin near here."

"Then let's go."

The horse was dancing about nervously and the rain was coming down harder, but Ty didn't move.

"What is wrong with you?" she shouted.

" You are what's wrong with me," he yelled back at her, then turned the horse and started north.

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