Lions and Tigers and Bears by Kit Tunstall & Kate Steele & Jodi Lynn Copeland

Author:Kit Tunstall & Kate Steele & Jodi Lynn Copeland [Tunstall, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: erotic, Romance
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2005-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Grant’s behavior the next morning reinforced Zinsa’s conclusion. He was distant and withdrawn. He could barely contain his relief when a call came in on the radio set in his office requesting him onsite at an injury. Taking a bit of perverse pleasure from doing so, she went over to him after he signed off, saying, “I’ll come with you. I’ve already discharged two of the patients, and the clinic isn’t open today. I want to see you work.”

“Uh—”

She trailed a hand up his biceps, encased in a thin white T-shirt. “Unless you don’t want me?”

He swallowed audibly. “I’d be happy to have company.”

Zinsa winced at his words, reading more into them than perhaps he meant—as if anyone would do, and she was nothing special. Her heart hurt contemplating that, because after last night, she wanted to be very special to Grant. She just had to get past the wall he had erected between them first.

They took the Land Rover. Settled beside Grant as they bounced over the sometimes-rough terrain, following the worn tracks when they could, while navigating through the veld when they had to, she regretted coming. His silence repudiated her, just as the set of his shoulders and general body language communicated his withdrawal. Whatever she had hoped to accomplish when she’d had the inspiration to tag along seemed doomed to fail, especially since she couldn’t clearly identify her objective.

“Brace yourself.”

She blinked with surprise at the first words he had uttered in ten minutes, barely getting over her stupefaction in time to grasp the handle above the Land Rover’s door as they splashed through an opaque stream, which cut through the grassland. The tires seemed to protest navigating the muddy banks for just a second before getting traction and conveying them safely to the other side. The resulting jolt made her teeth snap together and induced a small headache.

“I wasn’t expecting it to be so rough.” She had known most of the preserve was untamed, populated by wild herds and their predators, but only in an abstract way, having never spent much time driving through the rough and wild areas of Mekimba. Her clinic was on the main road leading from Natunde, the nearest town. It was a five-mile drive down well-worn paths, deep with tire ruts. She’d had no reason to venture off the trails, until now.

He glanced briefly at her before returning his attention to the veld, following the faint path a vehicle had forged previously. “Are you sorry you came?”

Instead of answering, Zinsa turned her head to look out the window, staring at the golden grass without really seeing it. She refused to answer, because she didn’t know her reply. It appeared to be futile to tag along today, but his question seemed to be probing a deeper issue. Was he referring to last night, when she came, but he didn’t? Well, not after his blowjob, she silently amended. It shouldn’t bother her so much that he hadn’t climaxed again. Physiologically, it wasn’t that unusual.

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