Total pages in book: 16
Estimated words: 14872 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 74(@200wpm)___ 59(@250wpm)___ 50(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 14872 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 74(@200wpm)___ 59(@250wpm)___ 50(@300wpm)
Tonight I wasn’t in the mood for my primping though. I had too much on my plate just at the moment.
Like how I was going to deal with whatever nonsense mama had in store for me next. One thing was for sure, if they brought that Jet Durant up to me again, I’m gonna drive over to his swamp hut and blast him to kingdom come with my granddaddy’s old Remington special.
I heard movement through the closed door, and just about broke my neck hopping out of the tub.
“Mama…” I came up short in the bedroom when I saw Jet Durant, sitting in my bedside chair, looking right at home.
I’d only had enough time to grab a hand towel, which barely covered my front, my hair was wet from my bath and I was dripping wet.
I screamed like a panther in the Louisiana bayou and jumped back a good ten feet.
“You, what are you doing in here?” He stood from the chair and moved towards me with a slow gait.
I stepped back one, not risking a look back to see where I was going. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, living on the outskirts of a small town in these parts, it’s that you never turn your back on a wild animal.
“Don’t come any closer or I’ll scream.” I held my hand out in front of me while trying to stay decent with the other one holding up the miniscule towel.
I didn’t miss the way his eyes travelled up and down my body before coming to rest on my face.
“You’ve already done that.” I didn’t trust that look he had on his face one bit. He had sort of a lazy smirk type thing going on, and his eyes looked like they could see more than was proper.
“Daddy…” I started screaming my head off. No matter who he was, I know for sure my daddy would blow his fool head off if he caught him in here.
“Your daddy ain’t here little girl, neither is your mama.”
“What, what in the Sam hill are you talking about?” I tried sliding along the wall to my escape, if I could just make it to the bathroom…
“He dangled keys in my face, keys that looked like my room keys.
“Where’d you get those?” I was starting to get a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, but I had to deal with the issue in front of me first and foremost. He dropped the keys back beneath his shirt and I wanted to kick him in the shins.
I was backed up to the wall behind me as he advanced, his eyes never left mine, as he came to a stop in front of me.
“What do you think you’re doing?”
“You’re not the first little girl to reject a Durant male, out where I come from, we have our own way of taking care of such things.
Your daddy has sense enough to agree with me, so he and your mama took your little sister off for a few days.
It’s just you, me, and the servants here now; but they can’t hear you, and they have strict orders to stay away from that door, except for meal times.”
He now had his hands spread on either side of my head and was sniffing my neck. My heart started thumping away in my chest, but I wasn’t sure if it was fear or the effect of his nearness.
When his tongue licked me there I felt a strange tingle in my body and tried to get away. I’ll be damned if I was going to be treated like some eighteenth century runaway bride.
“Are you mad? You can’t do this, we have laws against this kind of thing.” Now he was nibbling the skin of my neck and making me go all weak in the knees.
I had to keep a cool head here, unless I wanted to end up barefoot and pregnant out in the boondocks for the rest of my natural life.
“Those laws don’t amount o a hill of beans in this equation. Your daddy and me got us a deal, you don’t want to do as you’re told the right way, well then we’ll see that you do.
Besides, I like this way better, this way I get to see what I’m getting before I take it home.”
“Hah, you lay a finger on me mister and I’ll geld you.”
“I’m thinking it’s going to be more than a finger little girl.”
Chapter 10
I was speechless for all of ten seconds, before I really caught his meaning. I looked for a means of escape but he had me locked in.
“Don’t you dare put your hands on me Jet Durant or I will call the police.”
“Go ahead, call.” He grinned at me like he knew darn well that I had no phone. Why would my parents go to such measures, just to get me to marry this beast?