A Cowboy State of Mind by Jennie Marts

Author:Jennie Marts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2020-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Bryn couldn’t make out his features in the dark, but she could definitely tell it was a man. And a tall one.

Seriously? What the hell was going on? First her brother mysteriously appeared in her kitchen and scared the hell out of her, now another strange man was sneaking around her corral. Well, this time she wasn’t scared—she was pissed off. This was her property, and she was done being afraid of who was showing up on it.

She pushed off the sofa and raced to the front closet. Searching the contents, she grabbed an old baseball bat of her brother’s. A can of bear spray sat on the top shelf, and she grabbed that too. Yanking open the front door, she stepped onto the porch and screamed into the dark. “Whoever the hell is out here, I want you to know I’ve got a gun, and I’m not afraid to use it.”

The light from the porch only illuminated a small circle. She held her breath as she peered into the inky blackness of the farmyard. One of the horses whinnied, and she could hear hoofbeats trot across the corral.

“Don’t shoot,” a voice called from the dark. “It’s just me.”

“Zane?”

She let out a shaky breath as Zane stepped into the circle of light. He eyed the baseball bat in her hands. “Is that thing loaded?”

She lowered the bat. “No, but this can of bear spray is. And it will deploy a twenty-five-foot hot cloud of pepper spray if I press the nozzle.”

“I’d rather you not press the nozzle then.” He shielded his eyes with his hand. “Can you hit the light? The moths are going crazy.”

She narrowed her eyes, studying him as she set down the bat and the can of bear spray. He was dressed in running clothes again, shorts, sneakers, and another T-shirt with the sleeves ripped off. What did this guy have against sleeves? The front of the shirt was dark with sweat. She swatted at a moth, then reached inside the door and turned off the front porch light. “What are you doing out here?”

He shrugged. “Couldn’t sleep. Sometimes when my brain won’t shut down, it helps to go for a run.”

“And you ran all the way out here?” She leaned a hip against the side of the porch railing as her eyes adjusted to the dark.

He furrowed his brow. “It’s not that far. It’s only a few miles out of town. We ran farther than that in basic.” He moved his head and scanned the corral, as if the horses somehow held the answers he was looking for. “I didn’t know I was headed here until my feet turned in to your driveway. They have a way of doing that.”

“What? Taking you where you don’t want to go?”

He shrugged, then turned his gaze to meet hers. “I don’t know. Maybe they take me where I do want to go but I’m too stubborn to travel there on my own.”

Oh.

She swallowed, suddenly unsure of what to say and trying to look at anything other than the array of skin and hard muscle on display.

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