Cowboy Charming by Lacy Williams

Author:Lacy Williams [Williams, Lacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lacy Williams Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

"Do you like how this looks?"

Alessandra's question drew Mia's head up from her phone. She'd been trying to decide whether she should text Ethan or not.

She gazed at her sister in the triplicate mirrors of the trendy, upscale Dallas boutique. Alessandra wore a floor-length, pale pink gown with a ruched skirt and an off-the-shoulders design.

They were the only ones in the dressing room this afternoon. At Gideon's insistence, they'd paid well for privacy, and the shop had closed to other customers for a few hours. Several smaller doors led off the mirrored main area, where multiple women could dress at the same time and then come out to admire themselves. Mia sat on one of the two small sofas that bracketed the wood floor and made it more welcoming.

"It's beautiful," Mia told her sister.

"That's a cop-out answer." Alessandra twirled to stare at her hips in the mirror. "It makes me look huge here." She motioned with both hands to her derrière.

"It's the way the skirt fits, it's not you. Anyone can see that." This was the sixth gown Alessandra had rejected.

And maybe Mia was a little distracted. It had been two days since she'd practically run out of Ethan's arms, and she was still spooked.

She'd almost kissed the man. Completely forgotten about her promise until the very last second.

She'd wanted his kiss. Desperately. Ardently.

"What is with you?" Alessandra complained as she slipped out of the dress. The stylist quickly and quietly took it from her, leaving Mia's sister in her slip and underwear as she waited for the next in line.

Mia blinked back the hot feeling in her eyes. "Nothing."

Alessandra crossed her arms. "Now you're lying to me. If you don't want to talk about your farmer-boy, fine, but you don't have to lie."

Mia's chin went up. "I don't want to talk about Ethan."

She didn't want to keep remembering the hurt that had pierced his eyes just before he'd shuttered his entire expression. Or how quick he'd been to say, I'm sorry.

The whole thing had been her fault.

She couldn't face the swirling thoughts. She stood up abruptly. "And if you want to talk about lying, why don't you let me in on the big secret that you've been holding onto since Glorvaird?"

Color leached out of Alessandra's face. "What?"

Mia was shaking now, but she couldn't stop the words from spewing forth. "You and Gideon keep having conversations that stop when I walk in the room. You haven't looked me in the eye since we left the palace."

Alessandra's gaze skittered away. The stylist started to come back into the room, her arms full of tulle, but Alessandra waved her off. She ducked away.

Alessandra pressed her hands together in front of her waist, a sign of tension that Mia knew and recognized. She waited her sister out.

After a long exhale, Alessandra looked her in the eye. "Father told Eloise about an—an affair. From when we were small. We have a half-sister somewhere in the states. Eloise asked me to find her. She dropped off the grid years ago.

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