A Cowgirl's Christmas by C. J. Carmichael

Author:C. J. Carmichael [Carmichael, C. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: holiday, christmas, small town, American romance, Series, Montana, cowboy, Family
Goodreads: 23433923
Publisher: Audible Studios
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

The food smelled wonderful and Callan had been starving thirty minutes ago. As she washed her hands in the sink off the mud-room, however, she found she’d lost her appetite.

Was Court playing some kind of game with her?

Plenty of times she’d noticed him watching her today in a very non-business-like way. And what was all that talk about being attracted to her?

Did he think she was insane enough to believe that crap?

He must be desperate to get her to stay on the Circle C. Worse, he must think she was desperate, to even consider getting involved with the man who had wormed his way into Hawksley’s will.

Okay. That last bit wasn’t fair. She didn’t believe Court had done anything to undermine her claim to the Circle C. The will had been a typical Hawksley sexist maneuver. He’d wanted to leave his land to someone with Carrigan blood, and so he’d done it. To hell with the daughters he’d adopted and raised since birth.

Callan slammed the bathroom door behind her then headed to the kitchen. A buffet had been set up on the island, loaded with an amazing assortment of food from roast beef and creamed horseradish to roasted potatoes and onions and vegetarian lasagne.

Emma Flanagan gave her a smile. “You’re the last one in, honey. Just like your father used to be. Load up, there’s still plenty of food left over.”

“I will. Thanks Emma. It smells heavenly in here.”

Emma gave her a wink. She knew Callan’s little secret. Despite being a rancher’s daughter and a rancher herself, Callan was a vegetarian. Shortly after her mother’s death, she’d decided she didn’t want to eat animals anymore. And so she’d stopped.

Her father would have considered such an eating preference to be the height of insanity, so she’d never told him and she was sure he never noticed. The two of them had never been in the habit of sitting down at the same time to share a meal. Either he’d take a tray and sit in front of the TV or she’d eat standing up by the sink.

During larger family gatherings there was too much commotion for anyone to pay too much attention to who ate what.

Today, Callan was certain, no one but Emma would notice all she’d taken from the buffet was the lasagne, a fresh-made roll and a big scoop of cranberry coleslaw.

Only she hadn’t counted on Court and his prying eyes.

“Don’t tell me you’re a vegetarian?” He asked her quietly, after settling in the chair right next to her. “I noticed you avoided the bacon at breakfast. And now, no roast beef?”

She inched away from him as far as she could. “Don’t be ridiculous. This is just for starters.”

“Right,” he said, sounding like he meant the exact opposite.

“Did you have to take the seat next to mine?”

“Afraid you won’t be strong enough to resist me?”

She rolled her eyes and tried to focus on someone else’s conversation. Dawson was sitting to her right, across from him were Sage and Savannah.

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