Cowboy Dreaming by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

OVER THE PAST WEEK, two words kept going through Josh’s head. Doodle and diddle. He still wasn’t sure what a doodle was, perhaps an ingredient in those cookies the Applewoods made. But the diddle had come across loud and clear in Roger’s text.

It didn’t matter that Josh hadn’t actually diddled Hope—though he had come close to doing just that in the truck. All that mattered was Roger had believed that sex was going on, and it’d been enough for him to pull out of the deal. Which, in turn, had sent Hope and Josh into moping mode.

Losing the horses was a low blow, and that, along with his concerns about losing the ranch hands’ respect, had been enough for Josh to rethink everything. He’d kept his zipper up and his hands off Hope. Not easy, but it was easier to do when he didn’t have to see her. Josh had managed that by fastening his butt in his office chair and working on plan B, which was trying to get the palomino stock from another seller. That had failed. So had the next ones.

He was now mulling over plan G.

Hope must have been in the rethink and mull mode as well because she hadn’t sent him any of those smoldering looks, and he was pretty sure she hadn’t skipped wearing panties. Of course, it was best if he didn’t think of Hope’s underwear choices. Or the dream he’d had about the two of them acting out page sixteen of the sex book.

“You gonna go in there, boss man?” Josh heard Termite ask. “Or are you figuring the boss lady’s still sleeping?”

Josh had been so deep in thought that he hadn’t heard the hand come up behind him. Termite came to stand beside Josh, put his hands on his bony hips and stared at Hope’s house—the very thing Josh had been staring at for a couple of minutes while he mulled over their situation.

“She’ll be awake,” Josh assured Termite. Like him, Hope was an early riser, and since it was already eight, she would have been up for a couple of hours. “I’m just trying to figure out how to word this proposal I’m working on,” Josh said. But when he heard his own words, he quickly added, “Business proposal.” He even lifted the printout he was holding in case Termite doubted that.

“Ah.” Over the past week Josh had learned it was one of Termite’s favorite “words.” Along with uh and huh. “This is about buying those blondie horses y’all both like so much.”

Josh nodded and wondered how Hope was going to take the news that plan G was going to cost her double or more than buying them from Roger. Maybe she would take it better than Josh had because he was plenty pissed off at himself for ruining this deal for her.

“There’s a lot of talk about you and the boss lady,” Termite went on. “Talk of y’all kissing and such.”

The such—what had gone on in his truck—would have caused a lot more talk if folks had actually known about it.

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