Texas Rain (A Whispering Mountain Novel) by Jodi Thomas

Author:Jodi Thomas
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, forced marriage, texas, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9780425212790
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2005-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

TRAVIS FOLLOWED RAINEY THROUGH THE STREETS seeing that she got home safely. He made no effort to catch up to her, even if he had been able. Except for a few very memorable parts, the evening had been a disaster. He’d had better days when he’d been outnumbered by outlaws. It appeared he took to stepping out with a woman with about the same skill as he showed when dancing.

If he hadn’t frightened her to death pulling her into the alley, his proposal of marriage surely did the job. The only explanation he could come up with was that he must have suffered brain damage from being wounded. A minute before, the idea of marrying her had been the furtherest thing from his mind. He was simply enjoying holding her, touching her, teaching her how to kiss. Then suddenly it crossed his thoughts that she’d know how next time. And next time it would be someone else kissing her.

That was it, he decided. That was the moment all rational thought snapped in two and he asked her to marry him. Him! The man who never wanted to marry. Never wanted a family. Never wanted a wife at home worrying about him.

He followed her another block. He knew nothing about her that would even hint that she’d be a good wife. She was a thief. Definitely violent, she’d tried to stab him less than two hours ago. Maybe that should have given him a hint as to how the evening would turn out. No doubt about her being a liar: It had taken him three times to get her to settle on a name, and he wasn’t sure she’d given him the right one yet.

So why had he asked her the one question he thought he’d never ask?

Travis swore, knowing the answer. This fairy woman brought the only sunshine to his colorless life. When he was with her, or even thinking about her, he felt more alive than he ever had. She felt so right in his arms, like a piece of his heart had always been missing and, somehow, she completed him. And touching her … he didn’t even want to think about the way touching her made him feel.

Suddenly she stopped and looked back to see if he followed, and to his surprise she appeared relieved to see him. He walked to within stabbing distance of her, but kept his guard up knowing she probably had her little fingers curled around her knife.

“I hate to ask for a crazy man’s help,” she said, moving her fists to her hips. “But I have to get to the back of the boardinghouse, and I don’t think I’m brave enough to walk into that blackness alone. Would you consider accompanying me, Mr. McMurray?”

“Why don’t you just knock on the front door?”

“Mrs. Vivian will not open it before seven a.m. It’s one of her house rules. She locks the house up and takes the only key to her room.”

He walked closer, relieved she didn’t bring up the proposal.

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