Slocum and Wild Bill's Lady by Jake Logan

Author:Jake Logan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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He had taken her up to his room right after their dinner at the Drover’s. She offered little in the way of resistance when he took off her dress and pushed her down on the mattress.

Then he took off his own clothing, hanging his gun from a bedpost.

Slocum lay naked beside her on the bed, the room’s small oil lamp turned down to a tiny point of light after she had taken off his clothes. She poured herself another brimming drink while he took several swallows of brandy. Later, he’d pushed her over on the mattress tenderly, laying her head on two pillows. Nellie’s breathing had grown faster. She stared into his face, caressing his cheek with her fingertips.

He kissed her lightly on the nape of her neck, and she sighed, the beginnings of pleasure. Her golden hair lay spread over the pillows.

“Your body is so hard,” she said softly. “There isn’t any fat on you. Only those scars...”

“I’m on the move pretty regular. It’s hard to eat much when you live in a saddle so much of the time. The various types of business I’m in forces me to travel a lot, but I can’t honestly say I mind it.”

“You told me you buy racehorses. What else do you do for a living?”

“I work for the railroads some.”

“You’re an engineer or something like that? You don’t seem the type. Those men said you were a bounty hunter.”

He smiled. “I do occasional detective work, when some bunch robs a train. Train robbers are hard men for the law to catch, since they usually clear out of the country where they commit a robbery. Somebody has to follow ’em and bring back the company’s money. Every now an’ then a bank will hire me to find holdup men when a bank’s been robbed. Mostly I travel. I like to see the parts of the country I’ve never seen.”

“Working to chase down outlaws sounds dangerous. You must be very brave and good with a gun.” The frown wrinkling her forehead said she was surprised by what he’d just told her about his various occupations and pastimes... and his lifelong case of wanderlust.

“I get by,” he said. “Most men with bad reputations aren’t really all that bad when the chips are down.”

“Wild Bill is a coward, I think. I don’t really know him all that well. He uses a gun when he’s sure he has the advantage, or when he knows someone won’t fight back. A few men who know him said he was extra good with his pistol in a shoot-out, but I don’t believe he’d face someone like you.”

“You don’t know that much about me either,” Slocum said.

“A woman can tell, if she knows anything about men.”

“And you claim you do?”

She kissed his lips, moving her mouth over his. A low moan came from deep in her throat. Her tongue flicked between his teeth, exploring. Nellie was finished with talking, evidenced by her actions.

Slocum cupped one ripe breast in his left hand and gave it a gentle squeeze, keeping her hardened pink nipple between two fingers.

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