Rimfire Bride by Luck Sara

Author:Luck, Sara [Luck, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2013-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Greta was sound asleep when Jana let herself in the room, but she awakened as Jana began undressing.

“How was the dance?” Greta asked in a voice groggy with sleep.

“It was very—enjoyable. I saw Hank downstairs. He said your Thanksgiving dinner was a great success.”

“It went very well. Everybody told me how much they enjoyed it, and guess what? Tom gave me a twenty-dollar tip. He said I earned it.”

“Oh, how thoughtful of him!”

Dressed in her nightdress, Jana climbed into bed beside her sister, then turned onto her side and pulled the cover up over her shoulder. She could tell by her sister’s deep and rhythmic breathing that Greta had gone back to sleep quickly, but for her, sleep was more elusive. She fixed her gaze upon the soft silver splash of moon glow on the far wall.

As she lay there, staring at the moon silver, Jana let her mind pass over the events of the day. This had been a day unlike anything else she had ever experienced in her life. She had never been invited to a man’s home before—certainly not in the way she had been invited into Drew Malone’s home.

And she knew it was an honor to be introduced to his sons, as well.

Then at the dinner, to be introduced to an entire crowd of people as the “woman in the window” was also new for her.

The dance had been wonderful. This was nothing like the occasional community dances back in Highland. Well, that wasn’t exactly true; this was a community dance, but never before had she gone to a dance with a man. She had been frightened by the prospect, but she thought she had comported herself quite well, and she smiled in self-satisfaction.

What stood out most in her mind were the kisses, and her reaction to them. But she knew she was not the only one to react. As she lay in bed, she recalled the pressure she had felt poking against her, the pressure from a hardness under Drew’s pants. Jana lacked experience, but she did not lack imagination, and unbidden, her mind extended the parameters of those kisses, imagining even that hardness unbound so that she could see and even touch it.

Such thoughts set her entire body aflame. Despite that the room was quite cool, she was on fire and felt a tingling in that most private part of her body that begged for something. But what?

To clear her mind Jana began making a mental inventory of the dresses in Watson’s store. Finally, after she heard the clock strike four, she got to sleep.

Drew had looked in on his children when he got home. Benji had covers over his head, while Sam had his feet sticking out at the bottom. Drew used to see that and cover Sam’s feet thinking he would want that, but he would soon have them uncovered again, so Drew decided that was what Sam preferred.

When he lay in his own bed, Drew thought about the day with Jana, and he realized that this was the first truly pleasant day he had had since Addie’s death.

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