Raven's Prey by Jayne Ann Krentz (as Stephanie James)

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz (as Stephanie James)
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: mom 05/31/2014
ISBN: 9781597222471
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Published: 1983-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Most of the village turned out to wish them goodbye and the children watched with wistful eyes as Judd went through a careful preflight check and then taxied out into the center of the dusty road.

Someday, he thought fleetingly as he taxied to the downwind end of the road and turned the Cessna into the wind, he’d like to give those kids a ride. He glanced at Honor’s rigid profile as she sat stiffly beside him. “What do you think about maybe coming back sometime and giving everyone a ride?” he asked above the sound of the engine. “I can still remember my first plane ride. It changed my whole life,” he added slowly.

“If you ask me it wasn’t for the better,” she muttered, refusing to look at him.

He sighed and concentrated on the tachometer once more before opening the throttle. She wasn’t going to make life easy, but she wasn’t actively fighting him. She might be furious, but at least she trusted him to some extent. Well, she’d get over her temper, Judd decided on a more positive note as he automatically corrected for the engine’s torque and guided the Cessna down the makeshift runway. A moment later they were airborne as the reliable little plane climbed quickly and steadily into the Mexican sky.

“You know, you were damn lucky to get this far into rural Mexico without any major disasters,” he remarked shortly after takeoff. “This part of the world is still pretty wild. There are still bandits in the hills and a woman traveling alone—”

“Might get herself kidnapped and killed?” she concluded laconically. “Well, what a coincidence. That’s exactly what seems to be happening to me, isn’t it? Except, of course, it wasn’t the local people who turned out to be a threat.”

After that, conversation lagged, to say the least. Judd freely acknowledged to himself that he didn’t know a great deal about handling women. His relationships in the past had tended to be limited, superficial and fleeting in nature. He was well aware of the fact that he didn’t have all that much to offer a woman. Females liked financial security, companionship and exciting romance. He’d never been able to provide any of the three. Women sometimes found him interesting, he knew, but they didn’t tend to hang around long when it became obvious that he wasn’t going to be able to provide the more basic components of a lasting relationship. Hell, he had a damn hard time even carrying on a long conversation with most women. It was different when Honor felt like talking to him, he thought. When she was in the right mood he found himself able to converse with her more than he’d ever been able to with anyone else.

Unfortunately she wasn’t in the mood today. He wondered how long it would be before she was. When this mess was all sorted out it would be nice to take her away for a while, just the two of them. That thought buoyed his own mood until the time came to land for fuel and the all-important phone call to the States.

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