Cowboy Take Me Away by Jane Graves

Author:Jane Graves [Graves, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781455515196
Google: iPfiRMUMDf0C
Amazon: B009NKST88
Barnesnoble: B009NKST88
Goodreads: 15789072
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2013-04-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

As Shannon scrambled to sit up, Luke sat back with a sigh. Thanks a bunch, Loucinda. Your timing is just perfect.

Shannon reached beneath her shirt to refasten her bra. She yanked her shirt down and ran her hands through her hair.

“What are you doing?” Luke asked.

“She can’t see me like this.”

“You’re answering the door?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“Because she knows I’m here. My truck is out front.”

“Sooner or later she’ll have to go away.”

“You don’t know my mother. She never just goes away.”

Shannon rose from the bed. On her way to the living room, she stopped at her bedroom door for a few seconds and looked back, her eyes telegraphing a nervous command Luke read instantly. Don’t you dare let my mother see you here!

As she hurried to the living room, he felt a stab of anger. He’d been in a situation a whole lot like this before. He hadn’t liked it then, and he sure as hell didn’t like it now. And he’d be damned if he’d sit in this bedroom and be Shannon’s dirty little secret all over again.

He rose from the bed and walked to the doorway leading to the living room, his steps slow and deliberate. He folded his arms and leaned against the door frame, watching as Shannon faced her front door, running her hand through her hair one last time. Then she opened it.

“Hi, Mom,” she said. “What are you doing here?”

“I was beginning to think you weren’t home,” Loucinda said as she swept into Shannon’s apartment, a fluffy little Pomeranian pattering along at her feet. “But I saw your truck out front. What took you so long to answer the door?”

Luke felt an instantaneous sense of loathing. Loucinda North was representative of everybody in this town he’d hated as a kid, full of entitlement and overflowing with disdain for those she deemed less worthy than herself. And it was clear nothing had changed in that regard. Her holier-than-thou attitude still emanated from her like radiation from a nuclear blast.

“I was…unloading my dishwasher.”

“Didn’t you hear the door?”

“Yes, but I had my hands full.”

Just then the dog caught sight of Luke. She let out a little yap. Loucinda turned, her gaze falling on Luke, and the temperature in the room instantly dropped ten degrees.

“Hello, Mrs. North,” he said.

Shannon whipped around, her eyes dropping closed with dismay when she realized he was standing there.

Loucinda stared at Luke for the count of three, with an expression that could have frozen a sun-baked Texas prairie. Then she looked at Shannon, whose cheeks were flushed with a just-kissed look even the most oblivious person could have read at twenty paces.

“I don’t understand,” Loucinda said.

Shannon opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out.

“Why in the world is that man…?”

Loucinda stopped short, drawing herself up into a tall, upright pillar of judgmental attitude.

“We’ll talk another time,” she told Shannon.

With that, she opened the door, walked out of the apartment, and closed the door behind her.

Then, silence.

Shannon spun on Luke, speaking in a harsh whisper.

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