Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

Author:Maggie Stiefvater [Stiefvater, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: love, paranormal
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)

CHAPTER TWELVE

Scarlett deliberately withheld all physical contact for an entire week. It almost killed her, especially when she saw Logan’s muscles flexing as he worked around the ranch, or when she saw his tender side toward all creatures large and small when they started doing house calls together.

But she knew that she had to impress upon him the importance, the enormity, of what was between them.

And for the sake of his pride, he needed to come to her—it had to be his choice, not an order that he felt he had to obey.

Standing beside him on the dusty floor in the busy barn of a neighboring farm, Scarlett tried to focus on threading a length of rubber hose up the nose of a mare. The toffee-colored horse rolled her eyes unhappily but was clearly too miserable to try to get away.

They’d been called to the farm to take a look at a mare that was under the weather. Logan had ordered Scarlett to examine the animal, give him her opinion, and then provide treatment, all under his watchful eye. He hadn’t strayed far from her in the past week, all the while observing her, teaching her.

But he hadn’t said a thing about the relationship they had outside of work. He hadn’t approached her sexually in any way.

Had she gone too far, making him spank her?

Was he waiting for her to lead, a submissive to a Mistress?

The thought upset her so much that her hands shook. The rubber tubing shook, sliding out of the horse’s nostril, and Scarlett swore softly under her breath.

“Here.” Logan caught the tubing before it could fall. Moving in so close that Scarlett could smell the soap he’d used that morning, he took her hand and placed it back on the tubing, helping to place the tube back in the mare’s nose. Scarlett’s pulse raced as, together, they fed the tubing into the horse’s sinus.

“Yes. Like that.” Scarlett might have missed it, but she thought she heard a small hitch in Logan’s voice when her fingertips brushed over the back of his hand. “You have to get in far enough that you can pump, but not so far that you damage the sinuses and hurt her.”

“Right.” Scarlett hated that her voice was weak. But whatever else she was confused about, she knew that she hadn’t imagined the connection between them.

But how the hell was she supposed to get through to him?

Was it even possible? Was she wrong about him entirely, and he truly was meant only for a Mistress who would be easy on him?

The thought of another woman laying her hands on him, touching him, made an inner snarl echo through Scarlett’s head.

She wasn’t about to give up on this submissive, no matter how stubborn a beast he was.

She just hoped that he hadn’t given up on her.

A vibration at her hip startled her, jolting her from her thoughts. Her ringtone blared, and she flushed as she realized that she’d forgotten to turn the ringer to silent.

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