Untamed Hearts--3-Book Historical Collection by Barbara Bretton

Author:Barbara Bretton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbara Bretton

Jade hid deep in the mine until the echo of Diablo's hooves faded. Only then did she dare slip out the back entrance that let out behind the hill where she'd left her trap and two white horses.

Quickly she stripped off the scratchy woolen duster and oversized wide-brimmed hat that her accomplice wore when he was playing the crazy prospector and hid them once again behind the outcropping of rocks and brush that cleverly concealed the mine opening from view. She hadn't needed the disguise for Jesse and that gal from Boston had been right easy to spook. All it had taken was a few loose rocks clattering to the ground to send them racing out of the dark tunnel as if Lucifer himself were on their tails.

She owed Old Tom a bigger cut off the next haul for telling her Jesse was headed out to show the mine to Aaron's daughter. If they'd continued just a few more yards they damn might have stumbled past the barrier and come upon the stash of gold bullion that was going to set her and Jesse up like Mexican royalty not too long from now. Just a couple more stagecoaches on their way to San Francisco and she'd be sitting pretty on top of enough money to keep them in clover until their hair was as silver as the ore that had put Silver Spur on the map. Another stage was due to go through tomorrow morning and she and her accomplices would be waiting.

If everything went as planned, by year's end she'd be able to leave Silver Spur far behind. She'd come too far to stop when she was this close. All the hot nights she'd spent sweating beneath the hands of the white man, the intense poverty of her childhood, the brutality—finally she would beat them at their own game.

She sighed and unpinned her heavy black hair which had been jammed under the hat. The dark strands fell around her shoulders and down her back and she prayed for a breeze to move the blistering air. The waistband of her emerald green dress was soaked with sweat and she wished she were back at the Golden Dragon, naked and cool in her huge marble tub with Jesse stretched out and waiting on her red satin sheets.

Only Jesse was different.

Only Jesse eased her body and soothed her soul.

Soon, she thought as she climbed into her carriage. Soon it would be just her and Jesse with no more little misses from Boston to cause her heartache.

Not that this blond haired gal was any competition—hellfire, if the gal had anything going for her, Jesse would've used the darkness of the mine to full advantage. Jade's body burned just thinking about the things he could have done to make that gal's blue eyes open wide with surprise. As it was, little Miss Caroline Bennett had been as pure coming out of the mine as she'd been going in and Jade had to laugh that

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