The Bargain Bride (Boss of Seduction) by Kasi Blake

Author:Kasi Blake [Blake, Kasi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Jared woke in the middle of the night to a freezing house. He had been dreaming about her, about Beth, about his beautiful, lying wife. Soft and pliant in his arms, she had let him do whatever he wanted. Of course, it was just a dream. They were about to make love when something awakened him. One glance at the clock next to his bed revealed the problem. The electric was out.

He got dressed as quickly as possible, jeans and shirts three layers deep. Sitting on the bed, he tugged on his boots. It wasn't easy getting them on over two sets of socks. He jumped up and went straight to Beth's room to let her know the power was out.

After knocking, he pushed the door open and called her name. The bed was empty. A flash of light drew his gaze to the balcony doors. In the distance, he saw the unmistakable beam of a flashlight heading for the stallion barns. Beth was outside in a winter storm in the dead of night. Had she lost her mind?

He raced down the stairs, stopping just long enough to grab his own flashlight and coat before dashing outside. The strong wind caught him by surprise and almost knocked him over. Even with the light, he couldn't see more than an inch in front of his face. He knew they always tied a rope from the house to the barns whenever bad weather was coming. It was easy to find. He grabbed onto the rope as the wind whipped around him, forcefully tugging at his clothing.

Millions of tiny ice pellets hit his face, stinging like a swarm of bees. The Arctic air threatened to freeze his exposed flesh, but he wasn't going back to the house without Beth.

The walk to the first barn seemed to take forever. His feet disappeared beneath the snow. He worried about Beth falling and hurting herself. He wouldn't be able to find her. The thought made his heart race. If anything bad happened to her...

“Beth!” he shouted.

The howling wind swallowed her name.

Finally, he made it into the first stallion barn; Beth wasn't there. A few of the horses watched him race to the door on the other end. It connected them to the next building. He hurried through the second barn while calling her name. She wasn't there either. He pushed the outside door open, fighting the storm. The violent wind tried to slam the door in his face. He took several steps into the barn and saw the door on the other end was wide open.

He raced across the barn.

She was just outside the door, fighting the storm while working on the generators. Wind whipped at her hair and tugged at her clothes. She pulled a switch on a panel connected to the exterior wall. A red light flickered. She must have heard him behind her because she spun around, eyes wide. Her entire body quaked from the cold. She looked half-frozen already, and they still had to make it back to the house.

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