Blinding Rain, Season 2, Episode 7 (Rising Storm) by Elisabeth Naughton

Author:Elisabeth Naughton [Naughton, Elisabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: small town, Rising Storm, Elisabeth Naughton, Romance, drama, Texas
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2016-09-26T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Tate wasn’t sure how he’d been talked into this.

Now that the buzz from his two drinks had worn off, he suspected he could blame the alcohol. One glance across the front seat of his car though, told him he was wrong. He was on his way to talk to his good-for-nothing brother all because one very pretty strawberry blonde had looked at him as if she saw something in him no one else did.

He forced his gaze back to the road. Forced his hands to stay curled around the wheel so he wouldn’t reach for Mary Louise again. He’d liked touching her in the bar. He’d liked holding her hand. He’d liked it a hell of a lot more than he’d thought he would and he wanted to do it all again. He’d always thought Mary Louise was pretty, he just hadn’t realized they had a lot more in common than he’d known. Or that underneath all that sweetness she was a take-charge kind of woman.

He really liked that about her. Hannah had never looked at him the way Mary Louise had. She’d never told him he was being an idiot or tried to talk any kind of sense into him. In fact, thinking back, Hannah hadn’t ever taken any kind of initiative in their relationship. He’d been the one to do all the courting. He’d been the one to always check in on her, not the other way around. He’d been the one pushing for more in their relationship, right from the start, and she’d just sat back and let it happen.

He rested his elbow on the open window and brushed his fingers over his mouth as he thought back to Mary Louise’s questions in the bar. Had he ever really loved Hannah? He’d thought they made the perfect couple. On paper she was everything he’d always wanted. But he couldn’t deny that he’d felt more of a spark sitting with Mary Louise for an hour at Murphy’s than he’d felt with Hannah in all the time they’d been together. He glanced her way and couldn’t help but feel an increase in his pulse as he took in the soft curve of her jaw and the gentle slope of her nose. If he’d had someone like Mary Louise by his side these last few years, how different would his life be now?

“Um, Tate?” Mary Louise braced a hand on the door at her side. “You’re drifting.”

“Huh?”

“The road. You’re drifting!”

Tate glanced back at the road and quickly corrected the wheel to keep from driving onto the gravel shoulder. “Sorry.”

Mary Louise breathed easier and pressed her hand against her chest. “It’s okay. You’re nervous. I get that.”

He was nervous. But not about talking to his brother. He was nervous about her. He hadn’t expected her to say yes when he’d asked her to go out to the ranch with him so he could talk to Tucker, but he really liked that she was here now. Everything just seemed easier with her.

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