Silver Nights With You (Love in the Sierras Book 1) by Belle Sawyer

Author:Belle, Sawyer [Belle, Sawyer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sawyer Belle
Published: 2014-08-30T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

David frowned at her reaction to his flirtation, or rather her lack of reaction. Maybe it would be harder to seduce a virgin than he thought. He was sure getting her out of dreary Gold Hill would be the ticket to unleashing her more lively side, the side he’d seen on the day he brought her into Virginia City to confront Samuel. Yet, there she sat, stiff as a board. If he had been in a dark, isolated box at the theater with one of Juliet’s girls they’d have their hands in each other’s laps by now.

He told himself to be patient. It was impossible for Lila to get excited over the brush of his hand if she had no idea how pleasurable his fingers could be for her. The most important thing was that she was there, and with him. He grinned, reliving the sweet rush of victory at the look on Morgan’s face when he saw Lila on his arm. It was worth the weeks of playing the fawning gentleman just to finally one-up that bastard.

He sat back and crossed his arms over his chest, nursing all of the reasons he hated Morgan Kelly while the orchestra music began to swell. The early mining days were David’s chance to prove his worth. With his new mill design, he’d ascended to camp leader and production doubled overnight. Just when they really started pulling metal from the ground, in walked Morgan Kelly. He wasn’t there a week before he started making suggestions to improve David's design. He tweaked a few things, changed the rigging and torque, but the original structure was from David's brain, yet every miner in camp praised the elder Kelly brother's ingenuity when production trebled.

Soon, he started in on the digging locations, pulling miners in the direction opposite David. If he said left, Morgan said right, and like a bunch of sheep they followed him. It was pure dumb luck they hit silver first. There was no way Morgan could have known where the silver was. Of course, every man jumped in on it, staking their claims and setting to work. And who received all of the credit for the silver boom? Morgan.

That alone soured David, but the day he decided he really hated Morgan was still swimming around in his brain, as clear as the waters of Tahoe. Leonard Stacy had come stomping around, tapping his ivory cane in every man's face with fistfuls of dollar bills. Morgan tried to persuade him and others against selling to the railroad mogul. He told them it would be foolish, that they were being swindled. David never believed there was as much silver in the ground as Morgan claimed. They'd been pulling it out for more than a year, and he knew the supply would run out. If that happened, the offering price would drop dramatically.

He sold to Stacy and crowed his cleverness for days, finally glad to be richer and wiser. He told the brothers they’d wish they would have sold out, too.

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