The Enemy's Daughter by Linda Turner

Author:Linda Turner [Turner, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: suspense
Publisher: Silhouette Intimate Moments
Published: 2001-04-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

He didn’t kiss her again for days.

His promise ringing in her ears, Lise found herself watching Steve every chance she got…and waiting. Waiting for the moment when he reached for her again, kissed her again, made good on his promise to show her just how pretty she was.

Just thinking about it made her heart turn over in her breast. How would he do it? she wondered, a shy smile of anticipation curling the corners of her mouth. Day after day, work brought them together, and although he didn’t bring up the subject again, it was there every time their eyes met. And without saying a word, he made her want him.

Their relationship had changed subtly, in the most fantastic way, and she loved it. Oh, he still teased her, but she had a feeling that was for appearance’s sake so the other men wouldn’t guess how serious he was. She knew, though—she saw the dark promise in his eyes—and she couldn’t sleep at night without dreaming of the moment when he would take her in his arms. This time, she promised herself, he wouldn’t let her go.

On the fourth day of the roundup, the entire camp picked up and moved again, this time twenty miles toward the station. As soon as the tents, corral and chuck wagon were set up, everyone but Cookie immediately saddled up and went to work.

Riding into the bush with the men, Lise told herself she wasn’t deliberately seeking out Steve. It was just coincidence that she and he both ended up checking a cross fence while the rest of the men began to round up the cattle. When they found a stretch of downed fence, it was only natural that they ended up repairing it together.

It was a relatively small job, one that could have easily been completed in less than an hour, but it took them twice that long. Setting new fence post and stringing barbed wire, they talked as they worked and never noticed the passage of time.

“So you went to school over the radio?” Steve said with a frown as he strung a second row of wire. “How did that work? Did you mail your homework in or what?”

“We had two-way radios that we used to communicate with the teachers at Schools of the Air,” she explained as she helped secure the wire to the post. “This far from town, it’s the only practical way to have a school.”

Moving to the next section of fence that needed to be mended, she stopped suddenly, lifted her nose to the air and sniffed. “Mmmm. I smell roses.”

“Yeah, right,” Steve retorted, grinning. “We’re in the middle of the desert. There can’t be a rosebush within a thousand miles of here.”

“Actually, there used to be one about a half mile past those rocks over there,” she said, nodding at a strange assortment of rocks piled on top of each other like a small fort off to her left.

“What do you mean, used to be? If it’s dead, you can’t smell it.

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