Brokedown Cowboy by Yates Maisey

Author:Yates, Maisey [Yates, Maisey]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2015-05-27T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

CONNOR FELT...RESOLUTE, if not better.

He had made his decision, and he stood by it. By it, behind it, in front of it. Basically, he had a whole fence around the decision so that it couldn’t escape and flee off into the wilderness, leaving him with no decisiveness and a hard-on that wouldn’t quit.

Because, even though he knew it was the right decision, it wasn’t the one he’d wanted to make.

No, the one his body wanted to make was the one that would see him back in bed with Liss, her legs wrapped around his hips as he sank deep inside her.

But that was the wrong choice. So his body didn’t get a vote.

He straightened, pushing his hat back and looking around. Eli was leaning against a post, drinking a cup of coffee. Kate was down the fence line with Jack, holding a wire straight while he worked something with a pair of pliers.

It was an overcast day, gray clouds rolling over the caps of the mountains, lowering the sky so that everything felt a little bit more closed in. This kind of weather suited Connor just fine when he was doing heavy labor. The cool, damp air refreshing rather than freezing, since they were out there working their asses off.

Normally, a project like this helped him exhaust his body until it was numb. Which he usually only needed to help with the loneliness, the sadness and the general soberness he went about his day in until he was able to reach for a little alcohol at the end of the day to help him out.

But he was trying not to drink. And really, sadness and loneliness weren’t his issues right now.

It was the fact that his libido was suddenly wide-awake. And hungry.

There was a whole hibernating-bear analogy in there, he was sure of it.

Actually, that applied across the board. Something about dealing with the barn, breaking through the barrier of lust and sex, putting down the bottle and just dealing with things was making him feel a lot more awake in general.

Too bad doing things had consequences. That was one point in favor for lying around being a drunk. The only consequence you had to deal with was the hangover. And what he was dealing with now was a lot more complex. Complex, emotion-type things. And he didn’t like that.

But the alternative was essentially sinking into the same kind of pattern his dad had been in. Hell, he’d pretty much been there. And now, with the benefit of it being in hindsight, he could see that. He had been excusing it, since he had been getting the ranch work done. But he hadn’t gotten anything else done, and he imagined a sad drunk was a sad drunk as far as family and friends were concerned, whether he did his ranch work or not.

“Everything going okay down there?” Eli asked.

“Fine,” Connor said, realizing his answer had come out somewhere between a grunt and a growl. He was going to have to work on that, too.

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