J. T. Watson

Wives In Torment

CHAPTER ONE

There were two young women in the store when Dan Jacobs entered.

He found them both attractive. He had been planning to stay in the small town but a few days, but he had already changed his mind. He had already seen a number of attractive women.

"Who is that?" Carolyn Merrit asked.

Julia Johnson tried not to look interested in the man who had just walked in. It was all right for Carolyn to act so crazy. Everyone in town, even her husband, knew that Carolyn was a big flirt.

But Julia had only been married a few weeks and it wouldn't do for people to notice her being interested in other men. Still, it was hard to keep her eyes from straying to the handsome features of the stranger.

"I don't know," Julia said sharply. "And you shouldn't be looking."

"Bosh," Carolyn said. "It's all right to look. I bet Jimmy does a lot of looking when he's not around you."

"I doubt it," Julia said.

Carolyn pouted. The pretty little blonde didn't look as if she believed Julia about Jimmy not looking at other women, but then Carolyn didn't know what a prude Jimmy was. He would seldom look at her completely naked and Julia knew she had a good body.

"Damn," Julia said softly.