All Night with the Cowboy by Soraya Lane

Author:Soraya Lane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Chapter 12

LAUREN stood in the bathroom, trying not to double over. She stared at herself in the mirror, knowing that if she didn’t give herself a damn good pep talk soon, she’d end up chickening out of this entire … she didn’t even know what it was. Sex. That’s what it was.

“Sex,” she whispered to herself, looking into her own eyes in the reflection and wishing they looked more confident and less scared little mouse. “You don’t forget how to do it, girl. It’s like riding a horse.”

It hadn’t been that long, had it? She thought back to the last guy she’d been with and shuddered. Oh yeah, it had been that long. It seemed like only recently they’d ended things but … she gulped. But this was Tanner. If she’d needed a boost to her libido, then he’d already done it, but actually walking out that door and into his naked arms? Her pulse started to race again. She should have drunk more at dinner, and then maybe she wouldn’t be having such a panic attack.

Knock, knock. “Everything okay in there?”

Holy shit. She needed a paper bag to breathe into or a big glass of whisky or …

“Lauren?”

She sucked back a breath. “Everything’s fine,” she said, hearing the hesitation in her own voice.

“Can I come in?”

She didn’t answer, just kept staring at herself for as long as she could until Tanner appeared and she turned around.

“Hey,” he said. “You look—”

“Scared?” she whispered, knowing how pathetic it was that she’d talked the talk but was now holed up inside his bathroom. She inhaled the smell of his cologne, still clinging to the bathroom from when he’d showered and gotten ready to go out for dinner. As he stepped closer, she could smell it all over again, only this time it was mixed with the masculine smell that was all Tanner.

“Why are you scared?” he asked, stopping a foot or so in front of her. He held out a hand and she raised her own shaky one to his. “If you’ve changed your mind, it’s okay. All that talk about me being the boss after dark, it was just talk.” His smile was sweet, just like she remembered, and when he opened his mouth to say something else, she rushed the distance between them and pressed her lips to his. Tanner didn’t miss a beat, his arms encircling her, pressed to her lower back as she lost herself in the feel of him kissing her.

Lauren tasted him, her tongue touching his, hands running down his back and exploring the firmness of his body. To hell with doubting herself and feeling scared, she was a single woman and if she wanted to reunite with her ex for a steamy couple of weeks, then why the hell couldn’t she?

“It’s like riding a horse,” she whispered against his mouth.

Tanner pulled back a little. “What?” he murmured.

“Nothing. Just shut up and keep kissing me.”

A noise deep in his throat might have been laughter, but it

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