The Phoenix Agency: The Sum Is Greater (Kindle Worlds Novella) by M. L. Buchman

Author:M. L. Buchman [Buchman, M. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-10-28T18:30:00+00:00

Jesse felt as if he was the one who wanted to shout out and create a thunderclap. The contact shock of Hannah’s palm resting lightly against his was more powerful than bedding some women. There was a rightness and a power to it that went beyond anything in his experience.

Ever so slowly, she curled her fingers until they were laced in his as tight as the braid on a horse’s mane all dandified for the state fair. Her hand felt good in his. Delta strong, but her fingers were still fine. Her hand felt feminine, despite the calluses. Or maybe it felt so good because of the calluses. It felt like no other woman’s hand he’d ever held—as unique as the woman it belonged to. And if he got much sappier about it, they were going to have to put him out to pasture or put him down.

“Nothing?” her voice little more than a whisper.

Nothing? He didn’t know what he was feeling, but it was definitely something. Oh! She means the sounds, Jesse. “Nary a peep big enough to spook a housefly.”

Her grip tightened convulsively on his and he gained a new appreciation for the meaning of Delta strong.

“Before you crush my fingers to dust with relief—”

Hannah eased up instantly and tried to pull away, but he held on to her.

“—try making a slightly bigger sound than the one before. Just don’t be making it Texas-sized.”

It sounded as if someone dropped a steel pot on a concrete floor just outside his car window.

It was followed by a sharp whinny of surprise and the sound of Brownie cantering off. “Well, she’ll definitely have a story to tell when she gets back to the barn tonight.”

“I’m so sorry. I didn’t think about—”

“Don’t you be apologizing. Brownie is gettin’ old and set in her ways. Do her good to run around a bit.”

“Brownie?” He could feel her laughing at him.

“I didn’t name her,” but Hannah’s smile didn’t let him off the hook. “Okay, maybe I let a girl in junior high who I was trying to impress do it.”

“You going to let me name one of your horses?”

“We’ll see. Hav’ta try another experiment first.”

“What?” Hannah froze up again.

Rather than answering, he leaned in and kissed her.

She made a brief gurgle of surprise, but then gave in to it. He’d been right about her taste—fresher than a stretch of spring prairie. But the feel of her was different. They were both still buckled in, held apart by their tightly clenched hands. But he knew her now. At least a little, and that knowledge spread between them like the kinetic flow when pilot and helicopter combined to make a single whole. When a change in attitude was no longer happening to one or the other of them, but both at the same time.

Jesse could feel the flow between them grow as if they were each other’s amplifiers until he wondered if they’d overload without some release.

They finally parted, not with a harsh slap of change, but rather it was a fullness that was so big it didn’t fit on the prairie.

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