C is for Cowboy (ABCs of Love Sweet Romance Book 3) by Brenna Jacobs

Author:Brenna Jacobs [Jacobs, Brenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Four Petal Press
Published: 2019-07-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Madi had a lot of time to think about what Lyla had told her as they followed the well-worn trail from the ranch house to the hills behind it. Once Brownie had her spot at the head of the line right behind Cowboy Owen, she had no interest in running off. Madi could sit back and relax, taking in the scenery while mulling over what she’d learned about Cash.

He was a virgin? Not that there was anything wrong with that. In fact, it shouldn’t have been as much of a surprise as it was. Lots of people were, she supposed. Just not very many that she knew. At least not anyone over the age of twenty-five.

Madi would have asked Lyla all the questions swirling around in her head, but Lyla had to bring up the rear of the pack. So Madi had to come to some conclusions on her own.

The news was both good and bad. Good, because Cash hadn’t really rejected her. He didn’t want to go to bed with her or anyone else. At least not yet.

The bad news was she felt even worse for coming on so strong. She’d given him the worst impression possible about herself. Madi had never slept with anyone on the first date, let alone on the first stuck-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-hang-out. In fact, when she was young, she’d also planned on waiting until she got married. Her granddad had always told her to wait for the person who loved her enough to wait for her too.

Then college had happened, along with her granddad’s Parkinson’s. She’d met her first really serious boyfriend who turned out to be the first of many regrets during those years when Granddad slowly slipped away from her.

Madi didn’t buy into that whole “damaged goods” idea she’d heard some of her more religious friends talk about, but she did wonder how things would be different if she’d stuck to what her granddad had taught her. Maybe if he hadn’t gotten sick, she could have gone to him for advice like she’d always done. Or maybe if her dad had ever been around, she could have talked to him too. Her mom had had a steady stream of boyfriends for as long as Madi could remember, so she wasn’t the best person to turn to when it came to long-term relationship advice.

Years of therapy had helped Madi realize her capacity to love people was her greatest strength, but also her greatest weakness. She had a bad habit of giving too much of herself in her effort to feel loved. At least, that’s what her therapist said. And Madi might finally be ready to agree with her. The way she’d acted with Cash was pretty damning evidence.

The problem was now she liked Cash even more. A lot of her friends would have seen him as some kind of conquest to go after, but Madi admired him for sticking to something he believed in. That’s the kind of man her granddad had been, and she’d loved her granddad more than anyone.

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