Chase: (Contemporary Western Romance) (New Horizon Ranch Mule Hollow Book 3) by Debra Clopton

Author:Debra Clopton [Clopton, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Sweet Contemporary Western Romance, New Horizon Ranch Mule Hollow Book 3
Publisher: Debra Clopton Parks Publishing
Published: 2015-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Did that really just happen?

The question reverberated through Chase as he stared up at Amber from flat on his back on the rough, wooden sidewalk. She stared down at him a stunned horror.

It had happened faster than being tossed from the saddle by an angry horse.

“What’d you go and do that for?” he growled scrambling to a sitting position and rubbing the back of his head and feeling a lump. He had to shake the cobwebs out.

Amber was as pink as the beauty shop. “Are you alright?”

“I’m fine,” he growled again. His pride was bruised as was his backside but he kept his mouth shut about that.

“How did you do that?” Esther Mae gushed.

Amber stood straight. “I am very well trained. Despite what people believe I can take care of myself.” She glared at him. “You shouldn’t have grabbed my arm.”

He pushed up from the ground and stood. “You shouldn’t have overreacted,” he snapped.

“And you shouldn’t have grabbed me. What were you thinking?”

He scowled and could feel heat rising from under his collar. “Woman, you’re flirting with danger and too stubborn to care.” She’d also put him on the ground like a pro but that was because he’d been completely caught off guard. “I was trying to protect you, that’s what I was thinking. Now stop being bullheaded and come back to the ranch.”“I’ll come when I’m ready, Chase, and not a minute before.” She turned and started walking again but glanced over her shoulder. “Don’t touch me.”

“Fine. No problem.” He crossed his arms and watched her go. Then he stepped off the sidewalk and leaned against her car to wait. She was in Mule Hollow. If anyone bothered her he’d know it within minutes.

“Wow, she sure is something,” Esther Mae said. He’d forgotten she was standing there.

“Something else,” he muttered and heard Esther Mae chuckle.

“Well I’ve got to run. But I think you’re doing a great job. I can’t believe someone is stalking her and we certainly don’t want anything happening to her. She might be able to protect herself and then again it’s always good to have someone who’s got your back. Like my Hank…he doesn’t have the muscles like you do now but he sure used to. Hang in there.”

Chase was relieved when Esther Mae decided to head out. No offense but at the moment he wasn’t in any mood to hear about Hank Wilcox’s attributes.

He was watching Amber sashay angrily down the street and her attributes, no matter how aggravating she was, were a whole lot more interesting to him than Hank’s.

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