Summer Winds (28 page)

“I was so lovesick when you left, I think everyone in town has taken pity on me,” I whispered.

“That’s what Donnetta said.” When I pulled back from her, shocked, she grinned. “She said she’d seen you and you were pining away for me.”

I moaned at the thought of Perry and Donnetta knowing I was lusting after Cash and then discussing it with her. Suddenly the specter of family dinners with Buck Tate loomed before me, with him summoning mental images of me having sex with his daughter.

“And oh, my God, Buck—”

“He knows everything. The person he was coming back to introduce you to was me. I told him when he was here that I was wild for you, and he said if I could land you I should get a gold star.”

I groaned even louder over Buck’s discussing my sexuality with Cash. “This is sooo strange and complicated.” I tried to catch my breath as she covered me in kisses.

“No, it’s not,” she whispered, and began making love to me in earnest, her hot hands pushing aside my clothing and caressing my bare skin.

“You don’t think it is, because you’re twenty-eight,” I moaned before I completely lost my senses to her fervent lovemaking.

“I don’t think it is, because it’s not.” She put her lips to my breast and the sensation liquefied me. Half rising, I thought I heard Perry tromping up the porch steps but the sound softly receded, Cash’s deserted duffel perhaps serving as a Do Not Disturb sign.

Her body pressed me down onto the sheets, telling me with each tender caress to let go. And now I could no longer blame my feelings on the summer heat but only on the heat generated between us.

Cash Tate had broken through the barrier, ridden in on the wind and brought love with her. My life would change, like the shifting gale forces that rocked this ranchland. What form that change would take, or how long it would last, I could not know, but I was willing to risk it—throw open the screen door and feel the wind’s full force.

THE END

After theater school in New York,
Andrews
began her career as a broadcaster in morning drive on the number-one radio station in New York. She spent nine years in the advertising world as a writer/producer.

She moved to California for a career with a well-known motion picture studio as VP Network Specials. She later joined an international television and publishing conglomerate, becoming president of one of their largest entertainment divisions.

Andrews now serves as president of a national auction and brokerage-services firm and is CEO of an interactive television network. She is an accomplished writer, producer, and public speaker.

Austin
, a talented writer/producer and on-air personality, partnered with Andrews, to form their own production company in Los Angeles.

She has served as a segment producer for broadcast network specials, developed and written animation segments for broadcast network promotions, and developed movies of the week and theatricals for studios, networks, and independents.

Prior to owning her own production company, Austin was coproducer and on-air host of a regional shopping channel.