Wanton in the Wild West by Molly Ann Wishlade

Author:Molly Ann Wishlade [Wishlade, Molly Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Gideon chewed his pencil. There was no air getting into the train carriage, and he was getting hot and bothered. Sweat trickled down his back, and his feet were crying out to be freed from his leather boots.

He cast a glance at Miss Bennett. She was a pretty young woman but not his type. Her willowy frame and haughty manner didn’t do anything for him. She would doubtless make some prospector a good wife, although with those narrow hips, she’d find childbearing a strain. He winced. That was a thought too close for comfort.

Now where had Harry got to with that lively little vixen Miss Amber Carpenter?

Gideon had been grinning at her beauty and her mischievous attitude ever since he’d seen her in Chicago, and he knew that Harry felt the same. But it was a recipe for disaster, him and Harry both taking a liking, a real liking, to a young woman. That had only happened once before, and look how that had turned out. A real mess.

Since Montana, they tried to spend time with women that only one of them was keen on. It was safer that way. It wasn’t as fulfilling as making love to a woman they both cared about, but it stopped them getting hurt. As long as they didn’t both fall for a woman, it worked. Or it had done until now.

Until they’d met Amber. They’d only met the woman just over a week ago, but she’d had an enormous impact upon them in a variety of ways. They were both drawn to her. There was no getting away from it. Ridiculous to a rational mind, he guessed, but occasionally life was just like that. You could try to rule your heart with your head, but sometimes your head said to hell with it all and jumped onto the same train as your emotions.

He’d have to go find Harry. Put a stop to this before someone, anyone, all of them, got in too deep.

“Miss Bennett?” He tipped his hat.

“Yes.” She looked down her little nose at him then flicked out her fan. He could see beads of perspiration above her upper lip, and he bet that she was mad as a hornet that even she was sweating.

“I have to pay attention to a call of nature.” A call of the wild, more like.

“Oh?” She raised her eyebrows.

“Will you be okay here alone?”

Maisie looked around the carriage. There were at least ten others still inside, most of them elderly or infirm and incapable of walking far.

“I’m hardly alone, am I?”

“Well, excuse me then, Ma’am.” He doffed his hat. “I won’t be long.”

He wasn’t sure what was eating the young woman, but she clearly wanted to be viewed as respectable and aloof. So he’d leave her to get on with it.

He hurried along the carriage and jumped down. Up ahead, in front of the steam engine, the driver and his crew were shouting and cursing at one another as they tried to repair the track. Steam still oozed from the engine’s chimney like smoke from a campfire.

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