Cowboys Don't Buy Their Bride at Auction by Jessie Gussman

Author:Jessie Gussman [Gussman, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessie Gussman
Published: 2019-10-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Boone’s face scrunched up.

It was adorable, and Roxie knew she was letting her guard down. She shouldn’t. He insisted he wasn’t after the ranch, and she knew she should believe him. All his actions had backed up the words he’d just uttered. But it was so hard to believe that someone could be as...nice as Boone seemed to be.

“I guess this is what we missed at the getting to know you stage.” He reached in the bag and pulled out two containers, setting one in front of her and opening the other for himself. “I haven’t been around women much. My two sisters are a good bit younger. Things people learn on TV or whatever, we never watched it. Didn’t have time. No dad and a lot of mouths to feed.” He grinned. “Some of us ate more than others.” He nodded at her soup. “You done with that?”

She gave him an uncertain look. “Yes?” He was looking at it like he was planning on eating it.

Sure enough, he took it from in front of her and started to spoon it into his mouth. Okay, yeah, so they were married, but only for a few hours, and seriously, he was eating after an almost perfect stranger?

“Basically,” he said, “if you’re expecting me to know a bunch of stuff about women, I’m gonna disappoint you. Unless it’s bovine related.”

That really wasn’t disappointing to her. Not much.

“So you need me to explain morning sickness?”

“Nooo.” He drew his answer out. “I think I have it figured out. You’re gonna be sick in the morning and act like you hate me because you’re pregnant.”

“I did not act like I hated you.”

“So, obviously, you don’t know much about men.” He picked up his burger. “Let me clue you in. When you cry at the sight of me, it makes me think you hate me. I think that’s a universal trait.”

“I had a headache, and I was throwing up. I didn’t cry at the sight of you.” She picked up a fry.

He stood, walking to the refrigerator and returning with ketchup. He held it up with a questioning look.

“Please.”

He squirted it on the lid of her container. “So you’re not sick now?”

“No. I was last night. But that might have been nerves.”

“You were nervous?” he asked incredulously.

“Yes. Absolutely. Wouldn’t you have been?”

“I’d have walked. No way I’d agree to get married to a stranger unless I chose to.”

“I told Ryder I would. It was the only way he’d let go and marry Nell.”

As she figured he would, he nodded. He’d have done the same for any of his family; she was sure of it.

She allowed a little smile to touch her lips, still not ready to bare all of her feelings for him. “Plus, I’m not unhappy with the way it worked out. I’ve been learning, sometimes, when you let things go, rather than try to control everything, things work out better than you think they would.”

There was humor in the crinkle of his eyes as he chewed on his hamburger and met her gaze.

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