Lone Star Burn: Love On Tap (Kindle Worlds Novella) Read Online Free PDF

my suitcase, and I’ll have to use your washing machine.”
    “Not a problem. Be right back.”
    Gray returned with a clean white t-shirt and a pair of baby-blue shorts. “Didn’t know what you like to sleep in, so I brought both.”
    Jennie looked him straight in the face and confessed, “My preference is to sleep naked, but not with an impressionable child in the house.”
    He went instantly hard again. He knew exactly what she was doing, and decided to turn the tables on playful Jennie. He leaned in close, as if he was going to kiss her, breathed enough hot air to caress the surface of her mouth, and huskily whispered, “For your information, I prefer sleeping in the raw, too. ’Night, Jennie.” He forced himself to walk out the door.
    So, her gray wolf was still interested and liked to play. She picked up the white t-shirt, held it up in front of her, and looked in the mirror. “If this is the closest I’m going to get to Mr. Grayson Wolff, so be it.”
    She would be making a great deal of money for her nonprofit foundation once she got a true picture and reported what was going on in this lovely home in Fort Mavis, Texas.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 3
    Jennie woke to the sun shining in her bedroom window and blinked at the intensity of the sun’s rays. The bed had been so comfortable she never woke during the night wondering where she was. Traveling and sleeping in a different bed every night had her body clock running backward, but this bed felt too much like home.
    She couldn’t think about the home she’d left and the parents she would miss. It had been the right thing to do, considering the public embarrassment that had rocked her world. Her brother Preston, a forensic accountant who worked for a well-known security company, was able to prove she wasn’t involved in the financial scandal that had toppled the charitable foundation she’d helped establish. Now she was moving on to a new job, new place to live, a new beginning. First she had to do this small favor for a friend.
    She rolled over and reached for her cell phone on the nightstand. Her eyes widened at the time. Eight o’clock. Her normal waking time was six, and by six-thirty she was well into the five miles she ran every other morning. The other days she did yoga. Her legs felt stiff from missing her morning routine. With all this flat land, there shouldn’t be a problem going for a run.
    She headed for the bathroom then remembered Gray said the towels and toiletries were in the linen closet. She opened her door and listened, but the house was uncomfortably quiet. The closet was just down the hall, and she collected everything she needed for a shower.
    She set everything on the counter in the bathroom then remembered she didn’t have any clean clothes. Hopefully Gray would have a pair of sweats for her to borrow until she did her laundry.
    The stone tiles were cold against the bottoms of her feet as she walked quietly toward three closed doors that she figured were bedrooms. Jen laughed to herself, recalling the way Goldilocks inspected the three bears’ cabin.
    She knocked softly on the first bedroom door and waited before slowly turning the knob to discover a small, neat bedroom. She moved on to door number two, knocked, and waited before turning the knob. It was definitely the bedroom of a ten-year-old boy. An explosion of toys littered the floor. A Minecraft village was under construction beside a computer monitor and keyboard on the child-size desk in the corner. Star Wars-themed sheets covered the unmade bed. At the bottom of the bed were two remote control cars and a helicopter. Most of the walls were covered with sports figures. Jennie wondered how he was able to sleep in the mess.
    She moved on to door number three, turned the knob, and gradually pushed it open. Her fingers tightened on the knob and she couldn’t move. Like Goldilocks, she’d hit the mother lode at her third selection.
    The big bad wolf