Christmas Cowboy Duet by Marie Ferrarella
Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-11-11T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter Ten
“Would you like another?” Brett asked, his amusement plainly audible.
He addressed the words to the back of Whitney’s head. She was on the bar stool, sitting absolutely ramrod straight. Every fiber in her body was focused on the band. More specifically, on Liam.
“I’ll let you know,” she finally told Brett after a beat, the words all but dribbling from her lips in slow motion.
“All right,” Brett answered.
Even those words were too many, interfering with her concentration. Whitney waved him into silence, wishing she could do that with the rest of the people who were in the saloon. She was doing her best to try to hear the song the band was playing, really hear it. She wanted to be sure she wasn’t mistaken, or talking herself into something.
But even the surrounding chatter couldn’t diminish or detract from what she knew she was hearing: one rather professional-sounding band playing background for one extremely excellent-singing guitarist.
She became even more impressed when Liam indulged in some entertaining, albeit exceedingly difficult, guitar fingering.
Sliding off the bar stool she’d only been partially perched on, Whitney abandoned her place by the bar and came closer to the music, drawn there more or less like one of the hypnotized children mesmerized by the Pied Piper’s flute.
She stopped herself just a little short of the perimeter that surrounded the band.
As she absorbed the quality of the music, she began to notice other equally as important things, as well. Such as the fact that the inner circle that surrounded the band was comprised predominately of young women. Young women who appeared to be absolutely spellbound, hanging on every syllable Liam sang, on every note he played.
There were men in the outer circle that went around the band, but the band appealed in no small way predominately to the female of the species. Whitney wasn’t sure how she felt about this, but for the moment, she was excited by what she saw.
* * *
WHENEVER HE PLAYED, whether to an audience or just in rehearsal, where only the other band members were present, Liam always gave 150 percent of himself to the performance.
But tonight, he’d kept just a fraction of himself back in order to aim a covert glance or two in Whitney’s direction. He wanted to impress her. To literally wow her.
He told himself it was because of who she was and ultimately who she represented. After all, she was a talent scout for a major recording label.
But while that was all very true, it wasn’t the only reason he wanted to blow Whitney away with his dexterity and with his musical prowess.
At bottom lay the reason that all men flexed whatever muscles they had available—be it physical or mental—to impress the ladies in their lives.
When he finally got himself to glance up, he saw her. Saw Whitney. Saw her swaying to the beat of the song they were playing.
That she was standing closer rather than lingering by the bar gave him a very positive feeling, not to mention what it did for his confidence.
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