The Blushing Bride by Judith Stacy

Author:Judith Stacy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2013-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“But don’t get your hopes up. I changed my mind. I’m staying.”

Amanda had said those words to him last night, gazing out her back door, while he still tasted her kiss on his lips and his fingers burned with the feel of her breast.

At the time, Jason had been relieved she wasn’t leaving. Now, striding toward the cookhouse at sunrise, he wasn’t so sure.

Up ahead stood Amanda, dressed in a pale green dress that hugged her waist and outlined her breasts. One of the breasts he’d held in the palm of his hand last night.

Without all the trappings of women’s underclothing she usually wore, he’d discovered just how magnificent her breast was. And had been surprised at its fullness.

The ease with which she’d lost herself in what they were doing last night had surprised him, too. Amanda was a proper lady. Proper ladies didn’t throw their heads back and moan and writhe.

He’d only touched her. Briefly. With just his fingertips. If he did more, Amanda would—

Heat, want and desire converged behind the fly of Jason’s trousers, slowing his steps. Annoyed, he cursed himself. He’d been this way most of the night.

Amanda wasn’t the only one nearly out of control.

But he was the one who had a lumber camp to run. He joined the stream of men heading for the cookhouse, determined to focus his thought on business and not Amanda. Or her breasts.

That proved more difficult than he thought as he walked into the cookhouse past Amanda, who was smiling and nodding to the loggers. His gaze honed in on her bosom. The right one. The one he’d held. What did the left one feel like?

Jason growled under his breath and gritted his teeth as his condition worsened.

“Mr. Kruger?”

He heard Amanda’s voice above the chatter of his men and glanced over at her, looking at her face this time. If she was embarrassed at seeing him this morning, after what had happened at her cabin last night, Amanda gave no indication. Except that she seemed to be looking at the top button on his shirt instead of his face.

Jason made his way through the crowd of loggers to where Amanda stood. He didn’t get too close.

“I’d like to begin the etiquette instruction this morning,” Amanda said. “Would it be too disruptive to pull two of the tables together so all the husbands can sit together?”

Jason turned and saw that the table Amanda had sat at yesterday already had sixteen men squeezed onto the benches meant for ten.

“No more disruptive than having another fight break out,” he said.

Amanda kept out of the way as Jason had the men move the two tables together and arrange the benches around three sides. She wished she could avoid him altogether today. Things done in the dark took on a whole different meaning in the light of day. She didn’t know what to do, what to say to him. How should a lady react upon seeing the gentleman whom she’d allowed to caress her breast the night before?

The quivering in her stomach started again.

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