Serious Risks by Rachel Lee

Author:Rachel Lee [Lee, Rachel]
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-07-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Clad only in unbuttoned, unzipped jeans, Arlen stood at the window near the head of Jessie’s bed and stared out through white lace at wet gloom. Rain dripped steadily from the eaves, and the day beyond the window was gray and faintly misty. As yesterday had been the best of Texas springtime, today appeared to be the worst.

It was early yet, only a little past seven, meaning he had enjoyed maybe three hours of sleep. He was used to short sleep, though, and as he got older, late nights followed by early mornings troubled him less and less.

Jessie’s neighborhood was one of the older ones in town, and it was both quiet and graced with tall old live oaks that must be near a century in age. It reminded him very much of the small upstate New York town where he’d grown up—although he hadn’t lived in a neighborhood as nice as this one. No, this type of neighborhood in his hometown was where the doctors, lawyers and merchants lived.

Ever since he had moved to central Texas, however, he frequently had been taken by surprise at the way some view of the hilly countryside or a city street would suddenly remind him forcibly of the Northeast. The sensation was particularly apparent here on Jessie’s street.

He glanced over at her to make sure she was still asleep. This was one morning of her life when she shouldn’t awake alone. It would be easy, he feared, for her to feel used. Hell, in the cool light of morning he was wondering what the devil was wrong with him. He’d let his judgment become seriously clouded by needs that shouldn’t be running a man’s life much past the age of twenty. Still, whatever penance he deserved for his selfishness and foolhardiness in climbing into her bed, he wasn’t going to make her pay it. She had given him a priceless gift, and he was decent enough to value it. He would stick around until she got sick of him, which probably wouldn’t take too long. Until then, he owed her whatever she wanted from him simply because he’d taken advantage of her.

He scanned the street again. It was quiet, as it should be so early on a Sunday morning. The only other soul stirring was that man down there leaning against a light post and smoking a cigarette while he waited for a dog to finish sniffing out all the bushes. Probably somebody else with a guilty conscience for the way he had spent his Saturday night, Arlen thought wryly.

A sigh from behind made him turn and look at Jessica. She stirred slightly, like the whisper of a dawn breeze. The top sheet was tangled around her legs and had slipped off one breast, a full, rounded breast with a large pink areola. A beautiful breast, he thought, on a beautiful, generously endowed woman. Her hips were meant to cradle a man, had cradled him perfectly. The memory of how she felt beneath him was enough to bring him surging to full arousal like a young buck of eighteen.

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