Small Town Girl by Ann H. Gabhart

Author:Ann H. Gabhart [Gabhart, Ann H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Christian, Historical, FIC042030, Man-woman relationships—Fiction
ISBN: 0800721845
Publisher: Revell
Published: 2012-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

21

Jay whirled around, cracking his elbow on the pump handle and knocking over the bucket, sloshing water on his shoes. He couldn’t see the girl clearly in the deep shadows next to the building, but he didn’t need to see her face to know who it was.

“Alice, what are you doing here?” He grabbed his shirt off the ground and jammed his wet arms into the sleeves.

“You know the answer to that.” Her voice sounded strange, raspy.

She had to be imitating some actress she’d seen making a move on a man in a movie. But it wasn’t a movie he wanted any part in. She stepped away from the side of the blacksmith shop and moved slowly toward him, swinging her hips so outlandishly that he worried she might dislocate something. Her brain was obviously already dislocated. She stopped in a shaft of moonlight edging down between the buildings and struck a pose as though she’d found a spotlight. She didn’t have on a jacket and her blouse had too many buttons undone for modesty.

Jay didn’t know whether to laugh or run. “You better go on home, Alice. Your mother will be worried about you.”

She moved toward him again. “My mother thinks I’m spending the night with a friend.” She was close enough now that he could see her eyes glittering. “Am I?”

For a couple of seconds he considered sending her running and screaming by grabbing her and planting a kiss on her. But then he decided he was the one who needed to be running scared from her. He eased back a few steps. “I don’t know, Alice. You’d better go ask your friend.”

“I just did.” She smiled, and suddenly she didn’t look like a high school kid. She had obviously studied that movie actress too well.

She reached to touch his chest, but he blocked her hand with his. After moving back another step, he pushed the buttons of his shirt through the buttonholes. He didn’t want to get caught half dressed in the dark with Alice Wilcher.

“Look, Alice.” He didn’t try to soften his words. “Nothing is going to happen between us. Not now or ever. You need to head on home. And when you get there, you better write in your diary that you promise never to sneak up on a man in the dark so you’ll remember this was not a good idea.”

“Don’t treat me like a child.” All trace of her smile vanished as her bottom lip came out in a pout. “I’m almost as old as Kate Merritt with a lot more to offer a man.” She turned sideways and ran her hands down over her full figure.

He took a deep breath to pull up some patience with the girl and then realized too late she might think his heavy breath was because of her figure instead of her foolishness. “Go home, Alice.” He turned away from her and headed for the steps that led up to the room over the blacksmith shop.

“But I’m afraid of the dark.

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