Whispers on the Wind by Brenda Jernigan

Author:Brenda Jernigan [Jernigan, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical, Adventure, cowboy, sweet, danger, brenda jernigan, sensual, mystery, love, murder, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780821775363
Publisher: Zebra
Published: 2004-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

AS LENORE BUTTONED THE high neck of her warm, flannel granny-gown, she couldn’t help thinking of Jon, in the room beneath hers, lying naked and golden, asleep on the bed the Francises had occupied.

She climbed into her own bed, rolled on her side, tucked her knees up to her middle and pulled the covers over her ears. It was a long, long time before she slept.

Jon lay gathering strength and thinking about Lenore, about how fortunate he had been that his Kahinya had led him to her—or as near to her as it could get him. She had helped him regain his health. He stretched his muscles. His once-broken leg was fully healed. He wrinkled his scalp. That wound had long since disappeared, as had the gash across his lower back. He exercised his mind by letting it drift carefully, quietly, into the minds of the other two he had been able to access, keeping his power very low lest Rankin still be on the alert, though he had no sense of the other man’s presence, and his Kahinya offered no alarm.

Slowly, carefully, feeling his way, he learned much from the man who had dreamed of the riches gold would bring him, from the woman who thought she wanted adventure. If it were in his power, he would give them both what they really desired—though it would not be what they believed they did. He had done his best already to thank them, showing them how to be content with what they had.

He took from them only what he needed—local knowledge, information about customs he might have missed despite his studying the data gleaned by other explorers of Earth. With so few, and such widely separated windows of opportunity to visit, often information banks had big gaps and much outdated intelligence. He had not been aware of what Lenore referred to as “the Big One,” referring to geological activity which sounded, from her description, as if it had been catastrophic.

Catastrophe came in many different forms, though. He had a difficult and dangerous mission ahead of him and only a limited time in which to succeed. Failure, to Jon, was not acceptable, so the more data he could gather, the better able he’d be to fulfill his duty.

From Nancy, the woman with yellow hair, he learned that Lenore was a good friend, one who listened and did not judge. Nancy liked Lenore, admired her, envied her, but knew little of value concerning her life away from here. He wished he had been more capable, and had delved deeper when he’d had the chance, before he made that promise of privacy to Lenore.

From the man, Angus McQuarrie, he collected knowledge of crops and stock and fatherhood and the warm comfort of a long and fruitful mating with a woman whose mind Jon could perceive only dimly. There was no opening for him to penetrate it, just as there was no opening for him in any of the other human entities he knew populated the immediate area.

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