"Tell me what other choice we have and I will gladly seize it!" "If the answer is not obvious to you, I will never speak it. Now good day, Mr. Royal, and goodbye." Knowing he could never catch her, Gabrielle turned Sunny toward the approaching wagon train and dug her heels sharply into his sides. The red stallion responded with an energetic leap forward, leaving Jason swearing angrily in a cloud of dust as thick as his confusion over Gabrielle's behavior. Jason screamed every obscenity he'd ever heard and then came up with a few original terms to describe the torment Gabrielle continually caused him. What in heaven's name did the woman want from him that he hadn't promised in the most definite way a man can? He had found her slender body so easy to tame, but her spirit defied him still. The emotions which he'd thought he'd transmitted so forcefully apparently had left her untouched, still he was even more determined to make her understand she was his woman alone.
