A Touch in Time by McKenna Chase Read Free Book Online

couldn’t take her eyes off Jake. He had gone outside that morning to cut firewood and showed no sign of stopping anytime soon. The man’s physical endurance was impressive to say the least. She knew that firsthand. The memory of which nearly had her coming right then and there.
    Oh, what that man did to her.
    The clouds shifted outside, allowing the warming rays of the afternoon sun to caress Jake’s bare chest. Just as her hands and mouth had the night before. Sweat glistened and thick muscles bunched and flexed with every swing of the ax.
    With a groan of frustration, Brianna slid her hand down inside her pants, touching herself the way she wished he were at that moment.
    Closing her eyes, she stroked her heated flesh and imagined it was Jake’s long fingers sweeping through her cum-dampened pussy.
    “Sorry to interrupt such a sweet moment, darlin’...”
    Her eyes flew open with a startled gasp. Yanking her hand free of her pants, Brianna turned to find Jake standing in the doorway. “I...I was...”
    “Thinking about me,” he said with a grin as he closed the door behind him. “You can finish up later. Right now we’ve got company.”
    “Company?” she said, unable to hide the worry in her voice. “Deke?”
    “Worse,” he said, looking oddly amused.
    What could be worse than a crazed murderer bent on revenge? “Who?”
    “A whole wagonload of prying old biddies.”
    “The women from town?”
    “Told you they’d be out to check on you and it appears they brought reinforcements.” He reached for the door.
    “How many?” she called out.
    “Two on top of the two who nearly shot me,” he teased. “I’ll be out chopping wood if you need me.”
    “Jake...”
    He turned, his dark, sensual gaze meeting hers.
    “Don’t you think you should put a shirt on?”
    He glanced down, a slow grin spreading across his face. “Why?” he asked, looking up at her. “Don’t wanna share your ‘husband’ with other females?”
    Hell yes. “Oh, please. I just know how sensitive women from this time period are about...” Her gaze drifted down his bare, chiseled chest. “Seeing a man half naked. You wouldn’t want them fainting all over your front yard.”
    “Fainting?” He chuckled. “No, can’t say I’d want that. Why don’t you go outside and greet our guests while I get cleaned up and make myself more presentable?”
    “Me?” she gasped, looking down at her clothes. “Can’t we just pretend we’re not home?”
    “Too late,” he said. “I’m sure they saw me step inside.”
    What if she said something she shouldn’t? “But I—”
    “You could always take off your clothes and crawl into my bed to wait for me. I’ll go tell them they’ll have to come back some other time. I’m fixing to fuck my wife.”
    “Jake!”
    “We’re newlyweds, darlin’,” he reminded her with a wiggle of his dark brows. “Reckon they’ll understand, considering the fine specimen of manhood you’re married to.”
    If he were Alex, she might have believed he meant that. But Jake wasn’t conceited. Open and honest, yes, but not the least bit stuck on himself. He was, however, enjoying her discomfort far too much. Well, two could play that game.
    “I’ll bet they’ll be even more understanding when I go out there and confide to them that my sexier-than-sin husband is all talk and no action.”
    “Sexier than sin, hmmm?” No sooner were the words out of his mouth when his grin faded. “Now hold on a minute. What do you mean no action?”
    Raising her chin, Brianna flashed him a taunting smile of her own and started for the door. “Don’t worry, Jake. I’m sure keeping a wife satisfied in bed isn’t top priority for husbands in your time period.”
    He reached past her, barring her escape.
    She stared at the large hand on the door in front of her, her smile widening. “Was there something else?”
    He stepped forward, trapping her body between his and the door. Lowering his mouth to her ear, he