For Ruby's Love by Starla Kaye

Author:Starla Kaye [Kaye, Starla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Published: 2015-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

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Calhoun stood in front of the great room’s windows overlooking the ranch yard, straining to see through the heavily falling snow. Ruby’s pink rig could barely be seen. He and Daniel both convinced her she needed help getting the trailer hooked up once more to the truck. That troublesome task finished, he’d realized his friend had been right, they couldn’t let her leave. He wouldn’t have sent his worst enemy out into the storm. Ruby McMurtry might have been a bothersome woman, but she wasn’t an enemy. She just didn’t belong here.

He sucked in a deep breath of frustration and blew it out, not feeling much better. They’d both argued with the cowgirl to persuade her to stay until the snow stopped and the road was safe enough to get out on. She’d been bristly as a porcupine about the matter. Daniel believed he was stubborn!

He heaved a disgruntled sigh as he studied the thick clouds that didn’t appear anywhere near done dumping snow. The night would be frigidly cold. He hoped the power stayed on, but at least there were back-up generators to keep the barn, the bunkhouse, and the house warm.

Darn obstinate woman refused to stay in one of his guest rooms. At least she’d let him get the electricity connected to her trailer again. Crazy female would have stayed in there without it. But if the power did go out, her trailer would turn into an icebox. He bellyached a string of uncomplimentary curses under his breath.

Daniel walked over and put a hand on his shoulder, pulling him from his musings. “Worried about her, aren’t you?”

“No,” he denied, lying. He didn’t want to be, but he sure as hell was.

“You could go out there and get her,” Daniel suggested, concern in his voice, dropping his hand away. “Carry her back here if necessary.”

He snorted and moved toward his favorite chair in front of the fireplace. “Like she’d let me in the door.” He’d been considering the idea since returning to the house an hour ago, furious at her decision.

“She’d let me inside.” Daniel turned to face him. “I’d have no problems with toting her in here.”

He studied the man who’d become his closest friend and bed partner. As far as he knew, Daniel had never made love to a woman. Yet he’d seen the way he looked at Ruby, sensed his attraction to her, and that it worried him. He wasn’t sure how he felt about his lover being drawn to her, maybe thinking about…. Shit! He didn’t want to be thinking along those lines at all.

It was bad enough he’d considered taking the blonde to bed. Worse, he’d gone so far as to kiss her…and blame her for his losing all good sense.

“McMurtry hasn’t been here a full two days and she’s causing problems.” He slumped down into the thick cushions, enjoying the heat of the nearby fire. God, he’d nearly frozen to death changing her tires and hitching up the rig. He wondered if she was warm enough in her trailer, and that made him angry all over again.

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