Untouched by Sandra Field

Author:Sandra Field
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Sexy
Published: 2011-06-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

BREAKFAST was eaten largely in silence. Afterwards Finn set out to gather more wood, and as she washed the dishes Jenessa heard the steady thunk of the axe reverberating among the trees. Finn wasn’t about to smell the golden rod, she thought bitterly. His restlessness seemed to have infected her: she reorganized the food bags, rinsed out some clothes and swept the floor of the tent, placing the sleeping-bags as far apart as she could. By now Finn had stacked a neat pile of logs by the fireplace. ‘I’m going for a walk along the shore,’ he said.

She watched him stride away between the trees. He hadn’t suggested that she go with him. Hating herself for minding, she settled herself on a log by the fire and opened the one book she had brought. Ruth had loaned it to her, recommending it as a good read. But the characters seemed to spend an awful lot of time taking off high-couture clothes and, in various adulterous combinations, climbing between satin sheets; the graphic descriptions of what went on between those sheets made Jenessa even more restless.

She had never done any of those things. But her imagination seemed to have sprung to life along with her body, and all too well she could picture doing them with Finn.

Maybe Ruth had recommended the book on purpose, she thought crossly. Next time she’d bring a textbook on forest management.

She made tuna sandwiches with pita bread for lunch, ate alone, and was just starting to worry about Finn when he appeared through the alders. ‘You’ve been a long time,’ she commented noncommittally.

He sat down and took the sandwich she held out to him. ‘You’ll laugh if I tell you what I’ve been doing.’

His lean fingers clasping the sandwich made her shiver with inner awareness. No satin sheets here, and no couture clothes either, she thought with a touch of desperate humour. She was in a bad way when a man eating a tuna fish sandwich made her feel like jumping on him. ‘I won’t laugh.’

‘There’s a cove half a mile from here that’s in the lee of the wind. I sat on a rock and watched the water. There were tadpoles there, big ones—potential bullfrogs, I suppose. One of them had a tail like ribbon and two back legs with perfectly formed feet. No front legs yet, but you could see them just beneath the skin, and I found myself wondering how they came out.’ He took a bite of the sandwich and gave a dry laugh. ‘Never thought I’d find myself curious about bullfrogs.’

He looked relaxed in a way new to her. The muscles in his throat moved as he swallowed; she watched them, wondering what it would be like to slide her lips down the corded tendons. In comparison to some of the sexual gymnastics described in Ruth’s book, it was a relatively mild ambition, yet it filled her with a wild, sweet longing.

‘What’s the matter?’ Finn said sharply.

‘Nothing! I—I was getting worried about you, that’s all.

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