He ached with love. The only thing better was seeing her love for him. “Darlin'?”
She ducked her head, then peered up at him through her lashes. "Will you explain about the candy stick now?"
The candy ... ? Oh!
He began to grin. Drawing her closer against him, he whispered an explanation into her ear, her eyes getting wider, and Jack felt exquisitely more aroused by the moment. “It is not,” he reassured her, pillowing his cheek against her curls and reminding himself to behave, "the sort of thing one expects a lady to do."
“But... Jack ... ?”
She smelled so good, so clean and pure and real. “Mmm?”
“Does that mean I can't?” Before he'd caught his breath from that, she shyly added, “One of the things I love about you is that you don't expect me to behave like a lady all the time.”
“You are a lady,” he assured her—beginning to tremble with the need to do more than just hold her.
“No matter how improper your behavior.”
And he kissed her to prove it. The kiss lasted forever, and reminded him what a clever little tongue she had, which reminded him of candy sticks.
“Does that mean you're a scoundrel all the time, no matter how respectable your behavior?” she asked when they paused for breath, so hopeful that he laughed. At moments like these, he doubted she'd even mind learning that his number one investor was the notorious outlaw Butch Cassidy. But he didn't try the theory.
“If you want a scoundrel darlin', I am more than happy to oblige,” he warned her.
“Yes, please,” she whispered.
Audra kissed every “I love you” off his lips as the sun rose.
Table of Contents
Yvonne Jocks-Behaving Herself
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty