A Very Cowboy Christmas by Kim Redford

Author:Kim Redford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2017-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Dune could hardly believe his luck, or maybe it was sheer persistence, or maybe it was Christmas when dreams sometimes did come true with a little help from this magical time of the year. And yet beyond all the warmth of Sydney and the specialness of the holiday, he felt a persistent cold deep inside because he wondered if he truly deserved happiness.

He took a breath, grasped her outstretched hands, and rose to his feet. He looked down at her expectant face. He suspected it’d been a long time since she’d taken a man to her bed. She honored him with her trust and desire, so he didn’t want to disappoint her. He’d been a rolling stone, meaning he’d been no saint with women, and he’d failed Vonda when she’d needed him most. Above all else, he wanted to get it right this time.

Yet he wasn’t sure he knew how to please anybody anymore, particularly himself. But right now, he didn’t matter. Sydney mattered. Christmas mattered. Happiness mattered. If he could make even one person—Sydney Steele—happy this season, then maybe he’d have set foot on his personal path to redemption.

He leaned down and kissed the tip of her nose, noting the splatter of small freckles across her sun-kissed cheeks. She looked vulnerable and adorable and so ready to be loved by him. He hesitated, wondering if he was up to fulfilling all her desires, or even a few of them. He’d never had a problem in a bedroom before, but now he was feeling an intense pressure to perform well. Still, if he let his mind keep up the worry, he’d disappoint them both.

Truth of the matter, all he really needed to do was let the passion that’d driven him for so long take over. She wanted him. He wanted her. All they had to do was unwrap each other to make Christmas perfect.

“Dune,” she said, squeezing his hands. “I’m feeling a little anxious. It’s so not me, but you—you’re almost overwhelming here in my bedroom.”

“If we think too much, this isn’t going to work, is it?”

“I don’t know, but—”

“It’s been a long time for me, too.”

“That’s a relief. I’m glad I’m not the only one.”

He turned to look at the bed, squatting like a big, black bull in front of the only gate that led out of the pasture. He might as well go ahead and admit they were never escaping out the gate into the wildflower meadow if they had to get past the bull, or in this case, the former marriage bed.

He raised Sydney’s hands, placed a soft kiss on each palm, and let them go. He quickly turned, grabbed the colorful quilt off the bed, put a hand around her waist, and ushered her into the shadowy living room where the only light came from the glowing embers in the fireplace.

“What’s going on?” she asked as she walked ahead of him.

He tossed the quilt on top of the carpet in front of the fireplace, and then turned to smile at her.

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