Cowboy Heat by Delilah Devlin

Author:Delilah Devlin [Devlin, Delilah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781627780506
Publisher: Cleis Press

COWBOY ADONIS

Michael Bracken

Nude, he rose from the stock pond like a cowboy Adonis, his thick, uncut phallus not perceptibly affected by the cold water. With my high-end digital camera, I snapped off half a dozen photographs of the cowboy’s wet, muscular body before he realized I was watching. He made no effort to turn away or cover himself but pushed dripping, shoulder-length black hair away from his face and said, “I thought I was alone out here.”

“So did I.”

I couldn’t look away. The few men in my life had been pudgy, sun-deprived city boys exuding pretentiousness but not masculinity, nothing at all like the naked cowboy before me.

He took a T-shirt from the pile of clothes he’d stripped off before diving into the stock pond and pulled it on. The white cotton clung to his broad shoulders, thick chest and six-pack abdomen like a second skin. Then he settled a white Shantung straw Stetson on his head before reaching for his boxer-briefs. He pulled them on, pulled a tight-fitting pair of well-worn Wranglers on over them, and then sat on the ground to put on his socks and Justin ropers.

After he pushed himself to his feet and brushed Texas from the seat of his Wranglers, he gave me a once-over, taking in finger-length blonde hair plastered to my head with sweat, a slender figure disguised by a loose-fitting University of Texas sweatshirt that masked my braless state, jeans so new I might have forgotten to take off all the tags, and hiking boots I wore to keep from twisting my ankles as I hiked across the rough, uneven pasture.

“What are you doing on my property?”

I’d entered the Bar-B-Dahl Ranch by hopping a gate a mile or so south from where we stood. “You’re Mr. Dahl?”

“Mr. Dahl is my father,” he said. “I’m Jason.”

“I talked to your father, then,” I explained. I introduced myself and told Jason about the magazine assignment I had, a rare opportunity to leave my Austin studio to take photographs of how the landscape had changed with the end of the drought. “Your father said it was okay as long as I didn’t scare the cattle.”

“You should have come up to the house and checked in,” he said. “Someone needs to know you’re here in case something happens.”

“I’m okay,” I said. “I have a cell phone.”

He smirked. “Try it, Andrea.”

I pulled out my iPhone and quickly realized I couldn’t get a signal. As I returned it to my pocket, I asked, “So what could happen to me out here?”

“Rattlesnakes, scorpions and wild hogs,” he said, listing just a few of the dangerous creatures I might encounter. Then he smiled and added, “And naked cowboys.”

“I think I can handle the naked cowboys,” I said, and the thought of doing just that made my heat rise.

I must have blushed because Jason said, “You look like you’re about to have a heatstroke. We should get you up to the house where you can cool off.”

I glanced around. “How?”

A slight rise

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