Reluctant Lark - 01 - The Reluctant Lark by Iris Johansen

Author:Iris Johansen [Johansen, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 9780553216257
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1990-12-01T06:00:00+00:00

Six

It was almost dark when Sheena made her reluctant way back to the cabin through the dense forest. She had put off her return as long as possible, but when twilight covered the pine forest with its frigid blanket, she knew it would be foolish to delay any longer. It would be very easy to lose her way when darkness obscured the landmarks she had become familiar with in her walks with Challon. All she needed was to have Rand forced to call out a search party to find her. He would find it most inconvenient if he had to interrupt his rendezvous with that luscious blond amazon, she thought gloomily.

Sheena pushed that distasteful thought away hurriedly as she had all similar ones on her lone tramp through the woods. It seemed that she had walked endlessly, setting a brisk pace in the hope that the activity would help to keep her from thinking. She had purposely avoided the fallen pine tree at the head of the lake, for she knew it would bring back far too many memories. They had made a habit of stopping to rest there after that first day. Rand would scoop her up and settle her in his lap and they would talk lazily and contentedly until Sheena was recovered enough to resume their walk. Now that memory was as agonizing as the hundreds of others that they had shared. How could so few days build so many memories? she wondered miserably.

"So you finally decided to come back." Rand's voice whipped through the still forest like the crack of a lariat.

She stopped abruptly in the center of the path, her eyes widening in surprise. She had almost reached the edge of the forest, and Challon was standing in the path before her, looming ominously large in the quickly darkening woods. She could not see his features, but there was a tightly coiled tension in his stance that sent a shiver of fear through her.

"You needn't have come to find me," Sheena said, glaring at him defiantly. "I know these woods fairly well now, and I was quite safe. There was no reason for you to have left Miss Scott."

Challon swore under his breath. "Sheena, if you say one more word, I won't wait until I get you back to the cabin to teach you a lesson you won't forget!" He had reached her now, and his hand clamped onto her wrist with steely strength. "I don't think you'd find a bed of pine needles in zero weather even a little bit titillating." He was pulling her swiftly after him, and she had to trot to keep up. "While I probably wouldn't even know the difference. You've got me so damn hot, both mentally and physically, that I'd probably burn the woods down!"

"You're not making sense," she protested breathlessly, as he pulled her up the hill toward the cabin. "And I don't appreciate your acting like some macho caveman just because I interrupted your tête à tête with Miss Scott.

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