Apache Summer by Heather Graham & Heather Graham Pozzessere

Author:Heather Graham & Heather Graham Pozzessere [Graham, Heather & Pozzessere, Heather Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Western, Romance, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373835416
Google: m-8NAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0373835418
Barnesnoble: 0373835418
Goodreads: 731811
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1989-01-02T10:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

He carried her, in the moonlit night, to the barn. He entered it and laid her, in her cocoon of covers, in the rear of the building, where soft alfalfa lay freed from its bales, ready to be tossed to the horses. The smell of the hay was sweet, almost intoxicating.

He lay down beside her and brought the back of his hand against her cheek, touching the length of it, as if he studied just her cheek and found the form and texture both beautiful and fascinating. Then his finger roamed over the damp fullness of her lip. He watched the movement as he touched her, then his eyes met hers. She could still feel, in her memo~j, in the pulse that seemed to beat throughout her, the touch of his lips against hers. And yet when he kissed her again, though the feel was poignant, she knew that he would move away when he did.

He lay back against the hay, staring at the rafters and the ceiling.

He groaned softly, then rolled suddenly, violently, to face her again. He didn’t touch her, but leaned on an elbow to stare at her reproachfully.

“You couldn’t have just arranged a room, for me, huh?”

“You couldn’t have just stuck around for a while, huh?” ahe retorted.

He was ruining it, dissolving the moonbeams, destroying the moment she had imagined and waited for.

He rolled on his back again.

“Go to your room,” he told her.

“I had no right to drag you out here.”

Tess leaped to her feet, her cheeks flaming, her body and soul in torment.

She stared at him furiously.

“You have no right to do what you’re doing now! To ruin everything!”

“To ruin everything?” He scowled.

“Tess! I’m trying damned hard to do the decent thing!” And she would never know what an effort it was taking. He felt on fire, as if he burned in a thousand hells. It had been all right before he touched her, before he felt her lips parting beneath his.

Before he sensed her innocence and the sweet wildness beneath it, the passion, the sensuality that simmered and swept beneath it all, that promised heaven. She was different. He wasn’t sure if he dared take her all the way, because he knew it would mean fragile ties that might bind him forever. He couldn’t find a simple fascination in her beauty; it would be more, and though he couldn’t begin to define it, it was there. He already slept with dreams of her haunting his mind; he never forgot for a moment the way she had looked upon the rock, as naked as Eve, as tempting as original sin.

“Tess, don’t you see? I’m trying to let you go!” She paused, and it seemed that she waited upon her toes, as if she would go or stay according to the way the breeze came.

There was a curiously soft smile on her face, almost wistful, a look he had seldom seen.

“What if I don’t want to be let go?” she asked him very quietly, with a breathless, melodic whisper.

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