Vampire Reflections by D C Young

Author:D C Young [Young, D C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Bill saw the black car pull out of the garage. He stopped on his way to the ranch manager’s quarters, to watch his boss turn the car and start on down the driveway. She stopped and lowered the window to wave and call out to him.

“I’ll see you in the morning.”

“You bet,” he responded with a wave. He watched the car until it came to the end of the driveway, turned onto the road that passed in front of the ranch and then rumbled to life with a deep roar. Juanita didn’t spare the horses from the sound as she accelerated away from the ranch. Bill shook his head. “Damn.”

The Porsche matched her personality and flare.

If she doesn’t keep it under control on that sharp curve near the mouth of Spring Gulch, they’d be picking up pieces of her and that damn car all up and down the valley.

The Porsche was dangerous, but probably not nearly as dangerous as the woman behind the wheel. She was precarious in so many different ways that Bill wasn’t sure where to start whenever he considered it. The image of her curves in that red dress she was wearing and the feel and scent of her were as good of a beginning point as any. It was an image that hadn’t quickly left his head and he strolled toward the small, two-bedroom house that served as his living quarters on Caldera Ranch. It wasn’t the first time his mind had started down that path. He’d wandered off the straight and narrow from the very first time he’d met her.

As he turned the doorknob and stepped into the Ranch Manager’s house, the memory was as clear to him as it had been three years before. He settled into a chair in the kitchen and leaned his elbows on the table and allowed the image to come up in his mind.

The first thing he saw was a pair of large dark eyes, which made him sit up straight and try to clear the fog from his alcohol-saturated brain. Once he’d gotten past the eyes, the straight white teeth surrounded by a pair of full, red lips piqued his interest even further. He nearly sobered up entirely as his eyes traveled further downward. He’d gotten all the way to her feet when it finally dawned on him that she was speaking to him.

“Is this seat taken?” the dark-eyed beauty had asked.

“It is now,” he’d responded looking up at her with the broadest grin he could get to fit on his lips.

“I’m sorry,” she replied. “I’ll just sit over…”

“I meant that it’s taken by you,” Bill had interrupted. “Sit down and tell me if it’s too soon to propose marriage.”

The sound of her laughter had been musical. “It might be a little soon for that, cowboy.”

“Well, if you knew how thin the pickins are around here, you’d know that a feller has to snatch them up pretty quick whenever he gets a chance.”

“Thin pickins, huh?” Smiling, she sat down adjacent to him at the small, corner table.

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