Christmas in Cowboy Country by Janet Dailey

Author:Janet Dailey [Dailey, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

Stone took Rowdy out as soon as he got back to the cabin, craving fresh air even though the temperature had dropped at least ten degrees by nightfall.

The dog had tree trunks to sniff and snow hills to plunge into. Stone didn’t pay much attention to the tugs on the leash as Rowdy investigated this and that fascinating thing.

Stone was thinking.

About Annie Bennett, of course. At the saloon, his heart had just about stopped when he’d thought she was about to fall from on high. Seeing her teetering on the edge made him feel sick inside. He’d gone straight to her, so fast he didn’t remember doing it, and he would’ve caught her with ease.

But she hadn’t needed a hero. Well, hell. It’d be nice if he ever got the chance, but she was as self-reliant and smart as a woman could be.

And so damn beautiful it was making him crazy.

That embroidered white shirt had fit her as closely as he wanted to hold her himself. She didn’t seem to have noticed that a couple of pearl snaps had come open after the mishap. He had, for a fraction of a second—and then kept his gaze firmly on hers for the entire rest of the time they’d spent together. With the brim of the fine new Stetson framing her beautiful face, her shining dark hair spilling over her shoulders, and that high color in her cheeks, Annie had looked like a cowgirl angel with a white halo.

If only Nell hadn’t been there. But Stone supposed that the older woman’s well-meaning chatter might have made Annie feel a little safer around him. It wasn’t just her near fall that had made her so nervous.

He knew Annie Bennett didn’t think too highly of him. He still couldn’t tell her exactly what it was he was doing in Velde, although his side of the investigation was progressing reasonably well.

But the interminable wait for Shep Connally to zero in on a mark was getting to him. And Stone had almost blown the new agent’s cover by giving her a stupid fake name. Kerry Cox was going to give him serious hell when she found out he’d referred to her as Bunny. If she found out, he corrected himself. She was supposed to hang out with other girls, pretend to be passing through just like them and blend in, until the right moment. Shep Connally was a boozer and boaster. A pretty young thing on a bar stool next to him was likely to hear more than any male agent.

Marshall knew he would have to bide his time to catch the con man and anyone else in Velde who might be in on his schemes. But that was the least of his problems. He couldn’t rest tonight for a whole other reason. Annie Bennett troubled his sleep. His wildest and sweetest dreams were all about her—and they never lasted long enough.

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