The Wicked North (Hearts Touched By Fire Book 1) by Gina Danna

Author:Gina Danna [Danna, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Bitter End Publishing
Published: 2016-06-25T21:00:00+00:00

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Emma cradled Nathan in her arms, rocking back and forth, humming softly to him. The baby’s cries all afternoon brought the wagon to a halt. Tilly tried to feed him, but he wouldn’t take her nipple. They changed him although he was still dry. And as he cried, his little face scrunched, turning red.

Neither her father nor Jack were worth a penny in help. Men never knew how to handle babies, but because Emma hadn’t given birth, nor really been around babies, she had no idea what Nathan wanted either.

“Here, Miss Emma, try this.”

Emma stopped staring at the child and bounced him lightly as she looked at Tilly. The slave handed her a wadded piece of cloth that was wet.

“What am I to do with this?” She frowned, confused.

The slave sighed loudly and took the next step. When the baby’s mouth opened for another wail, she shoved the wetted knot into it. The child’s eyes opened wide, amazed at the piece in his mouth and quickly started to suckle on it.

“Cloth?”

Tilly beamed. “Wetted with sugar water,” she replied. “He be startin’ to teethe.”

Jack walked up. “He’s sucking a rag? That’s all it took to make him quiet?”

Emma’s lips curved in a smile as she watched Nathan’s mouth work on the rag. She glanced up at Jack. “He’s teething.”

Jack nodded. He looked so handsome, ruggedly so, out here in the wild. The slight warm breeze blew at his shirtsleeves. He had left his frock coat on the wagon when he went to get firewood. His brown waistcoat and tan trousers were dirty from days in the saddle. A lock of his dark hair, now longer than usual, fell across his forehead. The late afternoon sunlight highlighted his angular jaw, high cheekbones and nose. That once straight aristocratic nose now angled slightly. She wondered when it had been broken. Knowing his rakish past, some man probably broke it because Jack seduced his attacker’s woman. Those emerald eyes sparkling in the sun tugged at her.

Jack’s luscious mouth, those lips she remembered touching hers, ravishing hers, curled slowly in a smile. Oh, how she wanted to taste them again.

Nathan spit the rag out and wailed, breaking the spell Jack had on her.

“Shush, my little one,” she cooed, placing the rag back in his tiny mouth and rocking him. She’d been a fool to fall back under Jack’s magic. He had made her a widow. She had to remember that. Heavens, she was barely two weeks into mourning for Billy. Jack was a traitor to all. But, a small voice in the back of her mind interrupted, could she ignore the man and the blatant fact that Billy had more or less given her to him? Fury washed over her at her thoughts. She gritted her teeth and forced her desires away.

For her own best interests and everyone else’s, if the opportunity presented itself, she should turn him in as the killer he was. But her heart screamed no.

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