Corralling a Cowboy: An Older Man Younger BBW Romance (Real Good Men of Oklahoma Book 6) by Daisy Gold

Author:Daisy Gold [Gold, Daisy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

Five

Maggie

All week long, Gus and I have been fighting over the three hundred dollars I slipped back into his coat pocket while we were kissing on Monday afternoon. It turns out kissing him is a potent distraction, though a risky one. I don’t know that I could have brought myself to stop if the kitchen timer hadn’t gone off.

Every moment we’re together is another string that ties my heart to him and this place.

When we’re not eating or playing hide the cash, Gus and I talk, especially in the evenings after dinner. He makes a fire in the fireplace, and we sit on the sofa and whisper back and forth to each other. I don’t climb into his lap, even though I want to, and he doesn’t hold me close, even though he wants to. We both know these are stolen hours.

Gus and I butt heads on a lot of things. He thinks I’m too dreamy, and I think he’s too severe, but I love being with him regardless, and I think he feels the same. I love that we push each other and disagree. It’s a comforting fallacy that everything will fall into place when you meet your soulmate—that your interests and likes will be in perfect alignment—but it’s a fallacy, nonetheless.

We’ve talked about politics once, and the conversation ended in a yelling match followed by the hottest make out session ever, and the only one we’ve had since the start of the Great Money War.

It’s a silent war, mostly. We don’t talk about it. Instead, we take turns being sneaky. Augustus hides the three hundred dollars somewhere he thinks I won’t find it, and then I find it and do the same.

When I wake up to the smell of frying bacon on Saturday morning, the barest edges of three hundred-dollar bills peek out from under the wood box on my nightstand.

On the one hand, I love playing with him this way, but there’s a dark side to our game because something bad happened to Gus.

It’s a secret we haven’t discussed—some old wound he’s been privately nursing.

I have secrets, too. But mine are a little more open. Gus knows Mom was sick; he just doesn’t know the rest, and he doesn’t ask. And that right there should’ve been my first clue. Augustus respects my privacy in a way that makes it seem he understands why it’s so necessary on a personal level.

I only know about Gus’s secret because I found a letter when I was going through his papers. Well, not a letter, but a birthday card. I didn’t think much of it at first. The front was simple enough—a photograph of two cowboys riding in a valley against snow-capped mountains. But the longing expressed in the note inside bruised my soul a bit:

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