Until You by Janis Reams Hudson

Author:Janis Reams Hudson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

After cleaning the bathroom and changing the sheets on her bed and Gavin’s, Anna dusted and vacuumed her way through the house. When she hit the den and turned to straighten the items on the desk, something was off. Missing.

Her car keys. She always left them beside her purse.

She wasn’t worried, just curious. After all, no one had been in the house but her and Gavin.

Her questions were answered a moment later when she stepped out the front door. Hot, heavy air hit her like a wall and pressed the air back into her lungs as she tried to exhale. Gavin had finished with the motorcycle and had parked it on the grass beneath the maple tree that shaded the front lawn. He had then backed her car out of the garage, where he now stood hosing it off. The play of muscles across his back threatened to steal what little air she had left.

“You don’t have to do that,” she said, approaching him from behind.

At the sound of her voice Gavin turned his head to look over his shoulder and smile. “Do what?” His movement shifted his aim just enough to angle the spray toward the outside mirror. From there it ricocheted straight into the side of his head. He ducked, squeezed his eyes shut. His mouth dropped open in shock as he released the nozzle trigger to cut off the spray. Water plastered one side of his hair against his skull and streamed down his face, off his nose and chin.

Anna couldn’t help it. A snicker came first, but when he opened one eye and glared at her, she broke out laughing.

Something long empty inside Gavin, a hole he hadn’t know existed, filled with warmth and light at the sound of her laughter. It was the first time he’d heard her laugh, but he vowed it wouldn’t be the last. If he had to play the clown to accomplish that, so be it.

But a devil took over just then. “You think that’s funny?”

Anna saw the maniacal gleam in his eye and started backing up, holding one hand out in front of her. “No,” she sputtered between bursts of laughter. “No, it’s not—” She struggled for breath, to stop laughing, and failed on both counts. “Not a bit.”

“Uh-huh.” For every step she took backward, he followed. “Let’s see how funny you think this is.” He let her have it in the chest.

Shocked that he would spray her, and that the water was so cold, Anna shrieked and sucked in a sharp breath. “Oh!”

Gavin hooted with laughter.

“Oh!” Her eyes were wide with shock as she used a thumb and forefinger to pluck the soaked fabric of her shirt away from her skin. “I can’t believe you did that!”

“No?” His laughter turned, to her ears, sinister. “Wanna see me do it again?” He raised the nozzle and aimed.

“No!” Laughing now, because she couldn’t seem to help herself, Anna backed farther up the sidewalk.

Gavin got her again, this time in the stomach.

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