Her Cowboy Prince Charming by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2022-08-04T14:49:45+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

SHE STILL COULDN’T BREATHE. They had been so close up there and...the attraction really burned between them. But it was even worse. The conversation. Feeling like she...understood him.

She had felt close to him before he left. Close enough that that wild summer night when they’d been the only two left at the bonfire that they’d been having in honor of them all being in one place, had seemed intimate.

And it had seemed...like it was theirs. Like there was no reason she shouldn’t try for the things she wanted most. The thing she had wanted most when she was fifteen years old and had noticed that his muscles might just be the most perfect creation on the earth.

Yeah. That.

And as if on cue, he walked through the front door just then, holding the tree up on his shoulder, his forearms shifting as he moved, and she couldn’t help but stare at the way his biceps curled, bold.

She’d touched all those muscles. But not enough to satisfy her. And she hadn’t known it was him.

Did you not, though?

Well. She hadn’t. And maybe there had been some thoughts of Damien. Maybe deep down she had known...something. But she hadn’t been able to openly, consciously enjoy his body.

And you still don’t get to.

Why not? The barrier to what happened two years ago was that he didn’t want Levi to be upset at him. And she’d been roaming around being hurt by him not wanting her all this time. But he had wanted her last night.

Maybe he didn’t want her now. Maybe now that he knew, it didn’t matter that he’d seen her naked and wanted her then.

Maybe just being her was enough to turn him off forever.

She watched him set the tree down. She knew she was staring.

“Help me with the lights,” he said.

She did, and he took the end of it, beginning to wrap it around the large evergreen.

“So. Do you still want me?”

He froze. He arched one brow, looking at her with frosty eyes. “Why the hell would you ask that?”

“Because I’m trying to get a gauge on this. Are you just... Is it me? Is it me? Am I fundamentally a turnoff? Is it because I’m in a baggy shirt? Is it just the me of it all? Because you only see me as a child, and only when I was a disembodied pair of tits could you get excited about me.”

“Please don’t say anything like that to me ever again.”

“It’s a valid question.”

“We are in your living room. And Levi could walk in at any moment.”

“So what? I don’t care what Levi thinks.”

“Because Levi is your brother no matter what,” he said. “And Levi could go from being my friend to my enemy pretty damn quick. If you don’t think your brother would absolutely kick my ass for this, you don’t know him very well.”

“He doesn’t own me,” she said.

“No. He doesn’t.”

“I bet if you quizzed him, he would think that I’d probably had sex already.”

“Oh, I don’t doubt that.

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