Staking Their Claim by Ava Sinclair

Author:Ava Sinclair [Sinclair, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight: May’s Advice

Leaving the safety of the cabin was the most frightening thing Jenny had ever done, only second to stealing Nigel’s clothes. She’d come to expect punishment for doing wrong, and she was pretty sure that taking his things from his trunk would earn her another caning at the very least, if she were staying. But she wasn’t staying.

As she donned his shirt and rolled up the hem of his pants she’d tied at the waist with string, she wiped away tears. The disguise was necessary if she was going to get out of Coloma, and even an outfit that swallowed her would draw less attention than the pretty dresses Cody had given her.

It was all her fault, she decided. The two men who’d saved her—the two protective men she’d come to care for—had turned on one another. They’d come to blows because of her, and Jenny had decided that it was all due to her failings, to her sin, to her horrible secret.

By day she’d spent time with them individually. But at night when it was dark, they both joined her together in her dreams. And as she lay in bed, she’d think of Cody’s intense eyes, his square jaw, his strong arms as he’d held her over his lap, his large hand delivering that first spanking. And she’d think of Nigel, and how he’d bared her bottom for the cane. And then she’d think of them not correcting her, but holding her, and then going beyond that to do—together—what May had let those two men do to her that day in Cora’s whorehouse. And there in the dark, the woman Cody and Nigel were treating as their sweet little ward would slide her hand between her open thighs and stroke her wet folds of flesh until she was struggling to contain the cry of her orgasm.

She was bad. She was wanton. She was no better than May, and that meant she wasn’t fit to be a wife to either an English gentleman or a principled cowboy. The sooner she was gone, the sooner they could concentrate on what they’d come to Coloma to do—make their fortune. She didn’t care about the gold anymore. They could have her claim and anything it brought; it wasn’t worth the guilt of destroying their friendship.

So with no real plan, Jenny Beaumont snuck out into the night. The mining camp and town never really seemed to sleep; men milled around, and Jenny kept to the shadows, realizing as she passed them that her short period of being safe and sheltered had made her forget the dangers this place held.

She’d tucked what money she had brought with her into the pocket of the pants and mapped out a loose strategy as she made her way into town. She’d stay at the boardinghouse for the night and hop a stage to San Francisco in the morning. Once there, she’d wire the men to let them know she was safe; she owed them that. Then she’d appeal to her aunt for some money.

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