The Bridal Path: Sara by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods [Woods, Sherryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460345412
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1995-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

For the next week Jake drove himself until exhaustion took over and numbed his mind. It was the most effective way he could think of to keep his growing feelings for Sara from luring him into doing something he’d regret.

Unfortunately, he hadn’t come up with any way at all to keep her out of his dreams. She plagued him like the very dickens from the minute his head hit the pillow and his eyes closed. She didn’t let up until he dragged himself awake in the morning, exhausted and disgruntled.

Why Sara? He asked himself that over and over again. Of all the women he’d ever known, why had she been the one to nag at him like a tantalizing, once-familiar scent?

She was lovely, but so were dozens of others.

She was sexy, but he’d never been drawn to the demure type. His relationships—if they could be called that—had all been blatantly sexual.

Was it as perverse as the fact that she’d always been so far out of his reach? Surely he was too old to be wanting a woman just because he couldn’t have her. Besides, Sara was hardly unattainable. She’d made her availability abundantly clear and he’d happily taken advantage of it.

For some reason he couldn’t fathom, it wasn’t enough. He wanted more, but he couldn’t put a name to the unfamiliar yearning.

After a week of denying himself the pleasure of seeing her, of touching her, he realized that abstinence wasn’t doing a darn thing except to put a more demanding edge on his need.

He told himself it was only curiosity that drew him to Zeke’s place late one afternoon when he knew Sara would be there for her riding lesson. But the truth was, the minute he laid eyes on her straddling a very restless bronco in the chute, his heart slammed against his ribs and then wound up in his throat.

He wanted to yell to Zeke not to open the gate. He wanted to go over and haul Sara off the back of the horse and cradle her in his arms, but he did neither of those things. He stood in the shadow of the barn and watched while Sara bent down to listen to a last bit of advice from Mary Lou, then smiled confidently.

“Let’s do it,” she told Zeke with gumption to spare.

Damn, but she was fearless, Jake thought. Normally, it was a quality he would have admired, but at the moment, it didn’t seem like a particularly admirable trait.

The gate opened, the bronco shot into the ring, bucking and twisting to rid itself of the annoyance on its back. It didn’t take three seconds to send Sara flying into the air. She landed with a thud in the dust, disgust written all over her face. If she was in pain, she ignored it.

“How long?” she demanded.

“Two point three seconds,” Zeke told her.

“Damn.”

“That’s longer than last time,” Mary Lou consoled her. She draped a comforting arm over Sara’s shoulders. “Now here’s where you went wrong.”

Her voice dropped to a confiding level that prevented Jake from hearing what she had to say.

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