Hawk's Way--Garth by Joan Johnston

Author:Joan Johnston [Johnston, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488025600
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 1993-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Candy had won several battles with the savage black stallion, but she was losing the war. No matter how hard she tried, the animal refused to trust her. Her failure left her feeling desolate because she had tied all her hopes for a life with Garth to her success with the incorrigible stallion. They were both turning out to be unbelievably stubborn males.

She had gotten only so far with Garth and no farther. She couldn’t explain it exactly, but it seemed like the more they made love, the more distant he became. Not that he desired her any less. In fact, their loving sometimes seemed almost desperately passionate, as though they had only these moments, these very few moments, to love each other.

And maybe this summer would be all they ever had together.

Candy held out the sugar to the black again. “Come here, you big beastie. Come here and take what I’m offering you. Everything is going to be all right. No one’s ever going to hurt you again.”

The black horse stomped a hoof and shook his head.

“You don’t believe me, do you?” She slumped against the corral. “Neither does he. He doesn’t trust me any more now than he did the day I came here. He wants me. But he doesn’t trust me.”

Garth’s family was due to start arriving any day and Candy hadn’t yet made up her mind what she was going to do. She couldn’t bear to have Garth’s family think she was just another one of the women moving through his life. Yet he had given her no encouragement to think that she would ever play a continuing role in his future.

She stepped onto the bottom rail of the corral and leaned over, holding out her hand with the cube of sugar in it. The stallion neighed and stood his ground.

“Come here, you bullheaded mule,” she crooned to him.

The horse took two steps forward and stopped.

“That’s it, you willful devil,” she purred. “Come and get it.”

Suddenly she felt Garth’s dark, brooding gaze on her. She turned to face him and lost her balance. He caught her as she fell.

The stallion raced back to the other side of the corral.

“Dammit, Garth! I almost had him,” she exploded. She tried to wrench herself from his grasp, but he refused to let her go.

“Whoa, there, girl! I came to tell you Jesse and Honey are here with their kids. I thought you might like to come and meet them.”

Candy took one look down at the ragged jeans and dirty shirt she had been working in all day and groaned. “Look at me. I’m a mess.”

“I wouldn’t say that.” Garth tightened his arms around her. “You look fine to me,” he whispered.

She shivered at the feel of his warm breath against her face. “You’d think I looked fine no matter what I was wearing—or wasn’t wearing. I wish you’d reminded me they were coming today, Garth. I wanted to make a good impression on your family.”

“Why bother? They’ll be leaving in a few days anyway.

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