Cowboy True by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-07-05T12:56:42+00:00

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HE SAID NOTHING at all, as it turned out. And that made it worse. He only watched her through narrowed black eyes when she mentioned it, oh, so carelessly, as they prepared for bed that night.

“She didn’t tell me what she wanted to discuss with you. She said that it was personal. I told her I’d give you the message. She did say that she’d be in touch.” She peered up at him.

His hard face didn’t soften. He searched her eyes, looking for signs of jealousy, but none were there. She’d given him the bare bones of Leslie’s visit with no emotion at all. Surely if he meant anything to her, it would have mattered that he was carrying on private, personal discussions with another woman. And Leslie’s name had been linked with his in past years. She must have known that, too.

“Was that all?” he asked.

She shrugged. “All that I remember.” She smiled. “She’s a knockout, isn’t she?” she added generously. “Her hair is long and thick and wavy. I’ve never seen a human being with hair like that...it’s almost alive. Does she model?”

“She was a motion picture actress until the death of her husband. She was tired of the pace so when she inherited his fortune, she gave it up.”

“Isn’t it boring for her here, in such a small community?”

“She spends a lot of time chasing Dawson Rutherford.”

That was discouraging, for Barrie, anyway. Antonia wondered if Barrie knew about her stepbrother’s contact with the woman. Then she remembered what her father had said about Dawson.

“Does he like her?” she asked curiously.

“He likes her land,” he replied. “We’re both trying to get her to sell a tract that separates his border from mine. Her property has a river running right through it. If he gets his hands on it, I’ll have an ongoing court battle over water rights, and vice versa.”

“So it really is business,” she blurted out.

He cocked an eyebrow. “I didn’t say that was all it was,” he replied softly, mockingly. “Rutherford is a cold fish with women, and Leslie is, how can I put it, overstimulated.”

Her breath caught in her throat. “How overstimulated is she?” she demanded suddenly. “And by whom?”

He pursed his lips and toyed with his sleeve. “My past is none of your concern.”

She glared at him and sat upright in the bed. “Are you sleeping with her?”

His eyebrows jumped up. “What?”

“You heard me!” she snapped. “I asked if you were so determined to get that land that you’d forsake your marriage vows to accomplish it!”

“Is that what you think?” he asked, and he looked vaguely threatening.

“Why else would she come here to the house to see you?” she asked. “And at a time when she knew you were usually home and Maggie was in school?”

“You’re really unsettled about this, aren’t you? What did she say to you?”

“She said you’d been at her house every evening when you were supposedly working late,” she muttered sharply. “And she acted as if I were the interloper, not her.

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