Dead Sexy by Kimberly Raye - Love at First Bite 01 - Dead Sexy

Author:Kimberly Raye - Love at First Bite 01 - Dead Sexy [Raye, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Category, Man-Woman Relationships, Vampires, Horror, General, Models (Persons), Contemporary, Romance, Romantic Fiction, Kidnapping, Cowboys, Fiction, Occult & Supernatural, Texas, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780373793624
Google: ts9tDEGlyUkC
Amazon: 0373793626
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

“LET’S SEE WHAT YOU got.”

Jake stared at the two aces and three kings he held in his hands and fanned them out on the table, a smile on his face as he stared at the man seated across from him. “Let’s see you beat this.”

The man took one look, threw down his own hand and muttered a curse.

“How about we go double or nothing?” Jake shoved the stack of gold coins he’d won toward the center of the table. “I’ll even spot you a couple of cards.”

“It’s too damned late for me,” the man muttered. “Besides, I intend to walk away with my britches on, and right now that’s about all I have left.”

“What about you?” Jake’s gaze went to the next man.

Hopkins, who owned the general store across the street, shook his head and pushed away. “Got me a sweet little filly waitin’ upstairs and I ain’t of a mind to piss her off.”

“Willy?” Jake eyed the owner of the livery stable.

“I’m out, too.”

“That’s what I get for playing with amateurs.” Jake had wiped out a table of professionals just last week, a match that had ended with him having to draw his gun. They hadn’t taken too kindly to losing to a local and so they’d been sore losers. And damned dangerous ones.

“It’s late.” Willy shrugged. “I promised the wife I wouldn’t be late again. I already missed supper twice this week. You ought to head on out, too. Ellen’s probably waiting.”

Not yet. Her daddy liked to eat late—after he’d taken an evening nap—and so she was just cooking supper at this point. Liver and onions. Her daddy’s favorite. But Jake wasn’t her daddy and he couldn’t stomach liver and onions. Any more than he could stomach the cold, hard man who’d forced him to marry his daughter because he’d caught Jake compromising her virtue.

Truth be told, Ellen’s virtue had been compromised a helluva long time before Jake had hooked up with her. But he’d been the one who’d gotten caught. The one her father had wanted—needed—to help with his horses. The one who’d been so naive and love-struck that he’d actually believed Ellen had felt something for him.

She hadn’t. He’d been headed out of town—free for the first time in his life—and she’d wanted to go with him. And so she’d done everything she could to make him want to take her along.

She’d lied to him. She hadn’t been the least bit in love with him. Rather, she’d wanted out. Out of this town. Away from her domineering father.

Instead she was stuck.

They both were.

He gathered up his gold, downed the last of his whiskey and reached for his hat. Outside, he stepped down off the porch and stared toward the livery, where he’d left his horse.

Music drifted from the far end of the street, and Jake thought of the sizable amount he’d won tonight. Enough to take off for good if he’d been the kind to turn his back on a promise.

That or he could buy Ellen that dress she’d been wanting from that fancy-schmancy mail-order catalog.

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