Together with her job on the road if anybody came upon what had occurred, she knew she ought to really feel responsible for giving in to her raging libido, however she didn’t. By no means in her wildest desires had she imagined the heights Jarrah may take her to. Nor had she anticipated to really feel a lot, so intensely.

All of it nonetheless felt so surreal.

Needing, wanting, craving to relive it, she closed her eyes and recalled his physique pressed up in opposition to hers, pores and skin on pores and skin, mouth on mouth, with their fingers exploring one another ravenously. She nonetheless couldn’t consider what they’d gone and achieved, behind his LandCruiser, underneath the silvery glow of the half moon, and in addition underneath the affect of a heck of a number of alcohol. However, together with the transferring recollections, she additionally felt a stab of harm as she recalled what she’d heard him say beneath his breath when she’d stepped out of his LandCruiser at first gentle that morning, a sight in her bedraggled clothes, feeling as if she was executing the stroll of disgrace.

Why did you go and do this, King …

Damage past perception, she’d nearly spun round, pointed her finger and outright blamed him for his or her reckless actions. Actions that would result in devastating penalties if Tommy ever came upon. However despite the fact that he’d made the primary transfer, it wasn’t Jarrah’s fault she’d reciprocated. It took two to tango, and gee whizz did they tango collectively so superbly, for hours, tucked up inside his swag. Having tormented herself since overhearing him, she wished she’d rotated and on the very least demanded he clarify why he regretted what they’d achieved. As a result of she certain as hell didn’t. They usually’d barely acknowledged one another since – the angst between them was killing her.

Annoyed, harm, frightened out of her thoughts about how they have been going to behave regular round one another now, she realised she was clenching her fingers into fists. Opening her eyes and drawing in a number of deep breaths, she pressured herself to calm down. The sound of the four-wheeler motorcycle coming to a cease outdoors drew her consideration to the place Jarrah was alighting. Earlier than she may take a beat, her coronary heart leapt in direction of him, and the ache it left behind winded her. Watching Scruff sticking loyally to his grasp’s facet, she blinked again sizzling tears. No manner was she going to shed one other tear after crying herself to sleep the previous two nights. She was achieved with the merry-go-round of self-pity after which beating herself up. She needed to get a rattling grip on the steering wheel of her life. In any other case, the online she’d woven by succumbing to her feelings was going to get her caught up and eaten alive if she wasn’t cautious. She wanted to resolve why she’d come right here within the first place, as quickly as she may, after which get the hell out of Riverside. However what questions was she meant to ask, and to who, with out drawing consideration to herself?

Turning away from the window, she received again to chopping onions for tomorrow’s particular of a fetta, spinach and onion quiche. She turned her thoughts in direction of extra essential issues, like who she thought was behind her letter: she veered from Tommy, to Jarrah, then again to Tommy. Or possibly it had been the each of them, or neither. Possibly it was Penny and Jenny, or Mack, or Graham, or Marty, or … oh my goodness, may it have been Jasmine? She gasped with the thought. Frustration had her chopping angrily. After two weeks right here, she was none the wiser to something, and he or she was starting to tire of pretending she was somebody that she was not. She was sick of not figuring out who was behind all of it. She was sick and uninterested in not figuring out who she may belief. And who she couldn’t. Slamming her knife down, she felt her complete physique vibrate with impatience. She wished to know the reality. Earlier than the tip of the week, come hell or excessive water, she was going to unearth the buried secrets and techniques that hid right here at Riverside Acres.

Tommy stomped again into her house with one other armful of soiled plates. This time he didn’t simply dump them, however as an alternative started rinsing and stacking the plates into the dishwasher. Like a bull confined in a china store, his dangerous temper was omnipresent. All the pieces he put down was slammed. Each one in every of his footsteps was stomped, and the fixed huffs and puffs made it sound as if he was having an entire heated dialogue inside himself. Though she was doing her perfect to disregard him, Millie couldn’t assist however really feel as if she was treading on eggshells as she manoeuvred round him. Working in this sort of atmosphere was sporting skinny. However what alternative did she have? Together with her coronary heart heavy and her thoughts weary from spinning in circles, she was very near exploding. And that wasn’t going to be fairly, if she, for lack of her higher judgement, did. As if sensing the constructing pressure from outdoors, Scruff appeared and whined somewhat from the alternative facet of the flyscreen door.

Pausing to greet the one dwelling factor right here she totally trusted proper now, Millie glanced to the place Scruff had his nostril pressed up in opposition to the display and her heavy coronary heart immediately lightened. ‘Hey, buddy,’ she mentioned softly. Strolling in direction of him, she pressed the display open and, stooping down, gave his head a ruffle. ‘Would you want a few of the meat scraps that I’ve saved for you?’

Tommy pushed previous her, sending her off stability as he stomped outdoors. ‘Excuse you,’ she referred to as after him.

Ignoring her, Tommy stuffed a cigarette between his lips then, putting his lighter, lit it as he walked away from her.

‘What the precise f—’ Her anger at boiling level, she shot to her ft and adopted him out. ‘Tommy.’ She lengthened her stride to maintain up with him. ‘What within the hell was that each one about? Tommy, don’t ignore me!’

Ironclad silence ensued as he simply saved on strolling.

‘Nicely, eff you!’ she roared earlier than her self-control had a look-in.

Tommy stopped in his tracks and spun to face her. ‘What did you simply say to me?’ His narrowed gaze was cutthroat.

‘You heard me.’ She swallowed down an enormous lump of remorse.

He took gradual, regular, menacing steps in direction of her. ‘You do know that I’m your boss, don’t you?’

‘Sure, however,’ she blinked as she fought for a solution, ‘how about you strive appearing like one?’

Time stretched. She may hear her pulse pounding in her ears as Tommy glared at her.

‘If you would like me to respect you as my boss, you possibly can’t deal with me such as you do, Tommy.’ Though the way in which he was looming over her made her extraordinarily uncomfortable, she refused to step again. ‘I should be handled like each different worker right here.’

‘You understand what, I’ve thought lengthy and exhausting about you the previous couple of days.’ Tommy inched one other step into her house. ‘You’re not truly on the books, as a result of we now have to pay you money, Millie.’ An odd smile performed on his lips. ‘Due to this fact, there’s no hint of you ever being an worker right here, so don’t play the “I’m an worker with rights” card with me.’ He smirked at her lack of response. ‘I’m onto you, Millie no final identify.’ Spreading his two fingers he pointed to his eyes after which to her. ‘My eyes are on you. At all times.’

Nicely, not at all times, or he would learn about … ‘What do you imply by that?’ Her fast pulse made her really feel as if she have been tap-dancing via a minefield.

He shrugged smugly.

He was clearly having fun with toying along with her, the son of a …

Scruff got here to her facet and sat protectively in entrance of her, his gaze glued to Tommy.

‘Huh, seems to be such as you received this one round your little finger too.’ He shook his head and huffed. ‘Eff me, what’s this place coming to?’

Bristling, she held her tongue as she watched him storm away from her. Solely when he was out of sight did she launch the breath she was holding. If he was attempting to get her to fully lose her mood, it was going to take much more than that to rattle her cage. But when this was a case of him letting her know that he was aware of why she was there, then he’d definitely hit his mark. Was she proper in pondering he was the one who’d despatched her the letter that had her driving three thousand kilometres to right here? As a result of he was positively her primary suspect proper about now.

‘Hey, Millie.’ Jarrah’s voice carried from the alternative facet of the driveway.

‘Hey, Jarrah.’ Her reply sounded strangled as she fought to rein in her rising panic.

His smile as vast as the intense blue sky, he wandered in direction of her with a straightforward gait, as if nothing had occurred, as if they hadn’t averted one another just like the plague the previous two days. As he neared her, the air was all of a sudden teeming together with his charming testosterone, and it triggered her struggle or flight response. However she couldn’t run. She needed to stand right here and try to fake she felt nothing. Wanting, needing, to behave regular, she desperately tried to gradual her racing heartbeat so she may at the least string collectively a understandable sentence.

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