A Cowboy's Woman by Cathy Gillen Thacker

Author:Cathy Gillen Thacker
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-05-26T04:00:00+00:00

“I DON’T THINK I’m going to be able to do this,” Greta said an hour and a half later as they parked in front of Jackson and Lacey McCabe’s home in downtown Laramie. After doing the dishes together, both of them had showered and dressed for an evening out. Shane was wearing a clean pair of jeans, dress boots and a nicely pressed fancy blue-and-black Western shirt. Greta was wearing delicate white sandals and a long white-and-yellow floral print sundress that showed off her shoulders and back. They looked like a very respectable young couple. Too respectable, in fact, for what they were planning.

“Sure you can.” Never one to dwell on the negatives of any situation, Shane reached over and gave her knee a friendly pat through the smooth cotton fabric of her dress. “Just be your usual sweet, sassy self. And I’ll be the bad guy. I’ve had plenty of experience doing that.”

He wasn’t giving himself nearly enough credit. “But I’m no good at lying,” Greta protested.

“Then you’ll just have to trust me to get you genuinely ticked off, won’t you?”

Prophetic words, Greta decided short minutes later, as she smiled at her husband like some bright, overeager kindergarten teacher.

No sooner had they walked in the door, than Shane began his merciless assault, swaggering around as if he were heaven’s gift to women in general and her in particular and tweaking her about anything and everything that came to mind.

“We all hear you got some help setting up house,” Jackson said. His arm around his new bride, Lacey, Jackson looked supremely happy.

“Good thing, too,” Shane drawled. He smiled at her guilelessly in a way clearly meant to provoke. “‘Cause Greta here—good as she is at kicking up her heels on the dance floor—probably never would have gotten around to it.”

“Shane McCabe!” Lilah admonished in shock, astonished at the merciless way her youngest son was egging his new bride on.

“It’s true,” Shane said. “I didn’t realize how undomestic Greta was till we got home tonight and had that delicious dinner waiting for us. She didn’t even know she had to have a pot holder to get the dish out of the oven. If I hadn’t been there to stop her, she would’ve burned her hand.”

Guffaws abounded as Greta gave Shane a look. “So I don’t know much about cooking,” Greta admitted with an indifferent shrug that had Shane’s three brothers chuckling all the more. “I think the man should pitch in around the kitchen, anyway.”

“Not in our marriage,” Shane said.

Greta gave him a fiesty smile. “Want to bet?”

“Now, now,” Tillie said, waving her hands nervously. “Of course Greta will cook, once she gets her business up and running and the two of you get settled in, won’t you, dear?”

“Why should I?” Greta returned, still holding Shane’s gaze. She let out an aggravated sigh and continued a great deal more petulantly than she felt, “He’s likely to make fun of anything I serve him, anyway.”

“No, honey, he won’t,” Lilah McCabe said hastily, attempting to smooth things over.

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