April, Dani - Raven's Ranch (Siren Publishing LoveXtreme) by Dani April Read Free Book Online Page B

would be a good time to sneak in a shower. She desperately wanted one. Not having taken one the night before, she still felt mucky from the long road trip.
    Taking one last walk around the entire shower area to ensure she was the only one there, she satisfied herself that she was truly alone. She chose the stall all the way back in the corner, hung up her towels outside, and took her T-shirt off over her head and kicked off her panties.
    Stepping into the stall, she had to fumble around for a few minutes to determine how to start the water flow, and also where was the shower head? At last she looked up and saw a long jet nozzle placed overhead on a rack. She lifted this down and found a knob on it that controlled the flow of water. She gently turned it on and was given a rude awakening when water came roaring out into her face in a strong stream that was mountain cold, the spray jetting over her face and matting her hair.
    “Goddamn!” she swore, and held the nozzle away from her, water spraying outside her stall and running across the cement floor toward the outside drain. Her whole body went tense as it was hit with the cold water.
    It was a few minutes more before she got the hang of operating the nozzle. She was able to get the volume of water turned down to a comfortable level for her shower, but unfortunately she could not find how to bring forth warm water from the spray.
    Slowly she let her body get wet and started to wash her hair. A ledge inside the stall held a fairly new bar of soap along with a small bottle of shampoo that looked as if it had never been opened. Squinting through lowered eyelids, with water running down her face, she reached for the shampoo and brought a liberal amount to her hair.
    The shampoo actually wasn’t of a bad quality and had a good scent to it. She used it to wash her body, and after she got used to the cold water, she started to enjoy the shower and felt herself waking up completely from her long sleep. She even heard some birds chirping outside and found the shower was bringing new energy and eagerness to start her first day on the Lazy L.
    “Goddamn that is shit!” said the voice of a man, loud and angry from just outside.
    “Go on back up range and wait for me. I’m just going to take a shower and get this washed off. I won’t be long!” came another man’s voice from outside, this time closer.
    Raven froze in her stall. Someone was coming inside the shower area with her and she was standing there dripping wet, as naked as a newborn. Immediately she tried turning off the spray, but she realized there must be some trick to it she had not yet discovered, as all she did was increase the intensity of the jet when she turned the knob back to the resting position.
    “Hello!” Raven shouted out above the spray of water against her body. “I’m in here now! I’m using the shower! Please wait just a minute and I’ll be out!” she warned, but was not at all sure her voice had made it above the noise of the water spray.
    Not having any luck in getting the nozzle shut off, she finally gave up on it, not having enough time to play with it anymore, and set it down on the cement floor, the jets of water pouring out across the floor in torrents and heading for the outside drain.
    She turned around for her towel but found it was just out of arm’s reach. To her horror she heard footsteps outside. She wasn’t for sure if they were up front beyond the partition or back in the shower area. The acoustics of the building were weird and thrown off by the pounding stream of water coming from the nozzle at her feet.
    She quickly tiptoed outside the stall. No one was there, thank God. The intruder was still up front beyond the partition. She made a grab for her towel and had it in hand, but then dropped it from shock as Chip rounded the corner and stepped into the shower area with her. He was as naked as she was.
    From the look on his face he was obviously more surprised to see her than she