The Durango Affair

137 Pages·2006·0.55 MB·English

by  Jackson Brenda

She Couldn’t Believe It.
In a couple of minutes she would be face-to-face with Durango
Westmoreland…again. When she’d made the decision to meet him in person,
she hadn’t thought that delivering her news would be this difficult. Now that she
was here, Savannah was having second thoughts about telling the man with
whom she’d had a one-night stand that he was soon to be a father.
She shook her head at her own stupidity, asking herself for the hundredth
time how such a thing could have happened to her. She was a twenty-seven-
year-old woman who knew the score on men and birth control. Too bad she’d
been too busy celebrating her sister’s nuptials and taking pleasure in Durango’s
seduction to take the proper precautions.
To make matters worse, she knew next to nothing about the man who was
her baby’s daddy. The one thing she did know—judging from the memories that
had haunted her since their passion-filled encounter—was that Durango
Westmoreland was an expert lover….
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BRENDA JACKSON
The Durango Affair
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BRENDA JACKSON
is a die “heart” romantic who married her childhood sweetheart and still
proudly wears the “going steady” ring he gave her when she was fifteen.
Because she’s always believed in the power of love, Brenda’s stories always
have happy endings. In her real-life love story, Brenda and her husband of thirty-
three years live in Jacksonville, Florida, and have two sons.
A USA TODAY bestselling author, Brenda divides her time between family,
writing and working in management at a major insurance company. You may
write Brenda at P.O. Box 28267, Jacksonville, Florida 32226; her e-mail address
[email protected]; or visit her Web site at www.brendajackson.net.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To Gerald Jackson, Sr., my husband and hero.
To my Heavenly Father who gave me the gift to write.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always
trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
—I Corinthians 13:6–7
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Epilogue