by Vella Munn
Hearing Chas’s name spoken aloud instantly changed Michon’s mood. She sank onto the bed, unmindful of any wrinkles that might form in her skirt. She lay back, flattening her hair on the pillow, rubbing Worthless’s head absently. She was too young for a midlife crisis…so what was the matter with her? First she was getting sick to her stomach just thinking about spending another year making polite conversation with Chantilla’s wealthy customers. Then she’d started talking to squirrels. And now she was remembering how the world stood still when Chas Carson kissed her.
He was right. They were different. Totally different. She honestly didn’t know there were men like him left in the twentieth century. A river guide? Did men really still do that kind of thing?
They must. Obviously that was how Chas made his living. He was a man’s man in the old-fashioned tradition. He was experienced in search-and-rescue, lived the majority of his life out-of-doors, and by his own admission felt like a bull in a china shop in the city. Michon, for her part, had grown up on the city’s limits in a standard tract home paid for by working parents. She’d gone to college because that’s what all her friends were doing, had gone after the job considered “in” at the time, had found herself a modern apartment, drove a nearly new car, dressed in the latest fashions.
She also had pulled her car over to the side of the road one evening, darted through commuter traffic, and hugged a frightened, half-starved mutt to her breast and brought him home to live with her.
“What is it?” she asked Worthless softly. “Am I going through an identity crisis? I wish you could meet Chas. You’d like him.”
And Chas would like Worthless. She didn’t have to see the two of them together to know that. Paul barely tolerated the enthusiastic, ugly, floppy-eared mutt who had won Michon’s heart. He frowned when Worthless curled up on her bed and booted him aside when the little dog scampered too close to his legs. So far Michon had been able to ignore Paul’s attitude toward Worthless, but in her present mood she found herself siding with her dog against the man who was going to show up in a few minutes to take her out on the town.
“What do you think?” Michon asked as Worthless licked her neck. “Think I’d come back alive if I tackled the John Day River?”
Worthless’s answer was lost in the sound of the doorbell. Michon sighed, scratched his head one last time, and got to her feet. As she reached for the doorknob she frowned. Copper sheen nail polish didn’t go with a frontier-style skirt and lacy blouse.
Paul’s quick frown as he stepped in matched her own. “You aren’t ready,” he said.
“Yes, I am,” Michon responded quickly. “This is as good as it’s going to get.”
That Was Yesterday
Vella Munn
His courage, her fears. No car is fast enough to outrun love.
Defensive driving instructor Mara Curtis always shared her pro auto racing family’s “no fear” attitude. Until the night she is abducted and nearly raped. Now she’s afraid of her own shadow, afraid to live alone on her isolated property.
Only while teaching does a little of her old spark come back—and her newest student is definitely challenging her with his macho attitude. No way will she give him the satisfaction of cracking her fearless façade.
Determined to break the car theft ring that almost killed his best friend, Officer Reed Stewart takes Mara’s class to get close to the sports car community. Instead he finds himself compelled to help her find justice, no matter what it takes.
Reed is everything Mara ever wanted, everything she believes she isn’t. It’s only the adrenaline from his pushing her to break her own speed record that has her agreeing to set up a sting. But when her attacker returns to finish what he started, Mara must find another gear to fight for her life—and Reed’s love.
This book has been previously published.
Warning: Heart-stopping romance, fast cars, and adrenaline-fueled love scenes. Author not responsible for burned-out clutches.
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That Was Yesterday
Copyright © 2013 by Vella Munn
ISBN: 978-1-61921-194-0
Edited by Linda Ingmanson
Cover by Angela Waters
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Original Publication: 1991
First Samhain Publishing, Ltd. electronic publication: April 2013
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Table of Contents
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
About the Author
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