Hell, Yeah Outlaw Cowboy by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2016-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Caleb shoved his feet into his boots. He ignored the way Delia stopped on the last stair and simply watched him.

He hated the way she did that. Because unlike Mel or Summer, he wasn’t sure he was fooling her at all. It felt like she could see beyond the bravado, the anger, the intimidating looks, and see all the fear and confusion underneath.

Worse, every once in a while he felt compelled to lay it at her feet, half convinced she’d know what to do with it.

Luckily, he wasn’t a total fool—just half of one—and he kept it to himself.

“Why won’t you tell me who she is to you?”

He was relieved the smallness in her voice was gone. The wavery way she’d spoken to him after he’d… Fuck, he’d threatened her like some kind of monster. Proving yet again what he was. “What does it matter?”

“I don’t know.” She sounded genuinely confused. He shoved his arms into his coat. He was an hour off schedule, and cows waited for no man’s problems. The last time he’d tried that, one had escaped and Mel had stopped speaking to him for days.

He threw the door open and pointed outside. “Go.”

“So…” Her dark, wide eyes stared at him. “I can’t help?”

She made it sound like he was denying her water, when he was providing her shelter and had given her food and money. She was still making him feel like it wasn’t enough. He was risking everything just by having her here—Tyler certainly would consider Delia Rogers a “person he used to associate with”—and she was acting as though he weren’t doing enough.

“What are you trying to do, Delia? What do you want from me?”

She didn’t blink, didn’t move from that bottom stair. Still and wide-eyed, she didn’t respond. He wanted to shake her. Except that was a lie. If he touched her shoulders, the last thing he’d want to do with his hands would be shake her.

“I guess I don’t know.”

“Then go back to the cabin. Figure how to get the hell out of my hair, and leave me alone. Got it?”

She lifted her chin and finally moved off the stair, her expression regal and icy. The too-thin woman in the too-thin coat. Why did he have to notice shit like that?

She sailed past him and out the door, the kind of silent fuming that could never be good. His assessment proved accurate when she turned abruptly, so he had to come to a skidding halt or run right over her.

It was tempting.

“I want to help. I’m going crazy in that place, and I need to think. I need something to do to help me think.”

“Not my problem, sweetheart.” He tried to walk around her, but she grabbed his arm. He glared, and she stared at her hand clutched to his forearm as if she wasn’t quite sure how it got there.

Slowly, her gaze traveled up to meet his, but she took her time. He wasn’t sure what she was doing, or

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