Wed to the Witness

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Author: Karen Hughes
cupped his hand around her bare, tanned forearm.
    She was tense, muscles tight. What would it be like, he wondered, to loosen her, to get to the soft woman beneath the tenseness?
    â€œJackson?”
    He skimmed his thumb up until he felt the pulse inside her elbow skitter. “Yes?”
    â€œI…” She took a deep breath. “What did you think about when I told you I teach archery?”
    Hearing her voice hitch gave him a small thrill of power—and pleasure. He smiled. “I thought that youmust be stronger than you look.” He squeezed her arm. “You are. You fascinate me, Cheyenne. I’m not quite sure why.”
    He saw a brief, uneasy flicker in her dark eyes before she shifted away, forcing his hand from her arm.
    â€œI’ve told you about myself. Why don’t you tell me something about Jackson Colton?”
    â€œYou’re changing the subject.”
    â€œWhy are you a lawyer?”
    Resigned with her distance for the time being, he leaned back in his chair. “Because my father groomed me to be one,” he replied, then hesitated. He had never thought of things that way, but it was the truth. His mother had barely acknowledged his existence, which had made him as pliable as clay in his father’s hands. Jackson supposed he would have agreed to a career of digging ditches if that would have gained him the love of the one parent who’d paid him any attention.
    That he’d never felt truly satisfied working at his father’s side had been something Jackson had chosen to overlook. Until last month when he’d discovered Graham’s affair with Meredith. Learning his father had paid for his aunt’s silence not out of remorse for his actions, but from fear that Joe Colton would write him out of his will if he found out the truth had put a sick feeling in Jackson’s gut.
    â€œIs that what you wanted, too?” Cheyenne asked. “To be a lawyer?”
    â€œI thought I did until recently.” He moved his shoulders carelessly. “I don’t know. Could be I’m just in the wrong area of the law. One reason I’m hanging around Prosperino for a while is to figure that out.”
    She sipped her latte. “What’s another reason?”
    For the space of a heartbeat, he considered telling herthat the police suspected him in the two attempts on his uncle’s life. That he could be arrested. Go to jail. And that she might be in a position to help the cops put him there.
    Just as quickly, Jackson pushed away the urge. He was innocent and he planned to clear his name—maybe as early as the following day if the trip he planned to make to L.A. paid off. If it did, there wouldn’t be any reason for Cheyenne to know he’d even been questioned by Detective Law. No reason for this woman, who had slid into his thoughts so easily and often over the past months, to have cause to avoid him.
    He took in her fine-boned features, dark eyes, the seductive arch of her throat. She looked…elegant, he decided. A kind of inner elegance that wasn’t the least diminished by the simple blouse and slacks she wore. Granted, he’d always preferred more flamboyant women, but this was the first time in his life he’d felt so intensely drawn to one woman. Right now, he didn’t know why. He was only sure that he wanted her in his world where he could see and touch her. And find out just what those secrets were he saw in her eyes.
    â€œI’ve thought about you a lot since my uncle’s party,” he said quietly. “I’m not going to let you get away this time. I have to go into L.A. tomorrow. Will you have breakfast with me the day after?”
    She regarded him steadily. He had the uncomfortable feeling she knew more was going on than what he’d said.
    â€œI have an early archery lesson,” she said after a moment. “And a counseling session later that morning.”
    â€œI’ll come to
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