Catching the Cowgirl by Lacy Williams

Author:Lacy Williams [Williams, Lacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lacy Williams Books LLC

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Adam followed Breanna down the deserted small-town street as they made a beeline toward the leather goods store. They passed the telegraph office where he'd pressed a dollar bill on the ten-year-old son of the operator before dawn this morning.

They were the only riders left.

He didn't know what she planned to do with the saddle. Trade it in for a different one? Surely it would take too long for the stirrups to be repaired. Did she even have the funds for that?

The storefront was dark and the door locked when they neared.

You should take Domino. The offer stuck in his throat. He couldn't send her to complete the race alone, not knowing that she'd been threatened by two men. She hadn't even told him the details of what had happened. Had they advanced on her? Put their hands on her? Or just wielded words as their weapons? The thought of it opened a black emptiness inside him.

Breanna banged on the door several times, but no one came to answer.

I trust you. She'd hurled the words at him, made the outlandish claim just after she'd told him she wouldn't allow the men close enough to get the jump on her, but as far as he was concerned, if it was two against one, she was in danger. Even with a knife, or her revolver. She was petite. And a woman. It wouldn't take much to overpower her, even if she was a crack shot.

And there was a part of him that had been devastated to realize she was still holding herself aloof, even after days together. Even after they’d worked together to save that kid.

He'd thought they were building something. Even just in snatches of conversation throughout the day. Learning each other as they cared for their horses.

She didn't trust him at all. He hadn't won her heart. The race master had asked if she would forfeit.

Maybe he should.

He waited for her to give up on rattling the door, to say she had no choice but to wait for the store's proprietor. Would she be able to make the check-in tonight if there was a delay?

He should have known better than to think she’d give in. She glanced up and down the street and then reached into her pocket to remove two... hairpins? She began to pick the lock.

"Breanna!"

She didn't even glance at him. "Stop worrying so much."

In a matter of seconds, the tumblers on the lock gave way with a thunk, and she'd slowly opened the door.

"Hello?" Apparently satisfied that the place was empty, she stepped inside. "C'mon. This won't take but a second."

"I'm sure this is against the law," he muttered, barely stepping inside the doorway. He couldn't find humor or even more than a vague unease in that fact that they were trespassing.

She gave him a cheeky grin as she moved behind the counter quickly, opening drawers and rifling around until she pulled a sheet of leather and then a pair of shears and set them on top of the counter.

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