Her Texas Lawman by Stella Bagwell

Author:Stella Bagwell
Language: nld
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Harlequin
Publisher: Silhouette Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Ripp was a few minutes away from the Dry Gulch Saloon on the outskirts of Goliad when his cell phone shrilled above the country music playing on the radio.

Expecting that his time off and the beer he’d been planning on having would have to be put on hold, he pulled the instrument from his pocket and quickly flipped it open.

Not bothering to look at the ID, he reached to turn down the radio at the same time as he said, “McCleod here.”

“Ripp. This is Lucita. Have I caught you at a bad time?”

Totally surprised by the sound of Lucita’s voice, he whipped the truck onto the shoulder of the highway. “Lucita. Is anything wrong?”

“No.”

She let out a short laugh that sounded oddly nervous, but before he could ask her what the call was about, she spoke again. “The house is empty. Marti went to a rodeo with Matt and his family. Now I’m wandering through the rooms wondering what I’m going to do for the rest of the evening. I thought I’d call and see if—if you’re not busy maybe you’d like to come over. If you haven’t eaten anything we could grill something. I have wieners and ground chuck in the fridge. I might even be able to scrounge up a beer or two.”

Ripp was fairly stunned by her invitation. Even though she had given him that mind-blowing kiss in the gazebo, he’d left the Sandbur Wednesday night certain that she would never allow anything personal to grow between them. Had he misread her subtle signals, or did she simply want to talk to him about the department’s work on the extortion note?

Hell, it didn’t matter why she was inviting him. He was glad. Damn glad.

“I’ll be there in fifteen minutes,” he said, then ended the call and made a quick U-turn in the middle of the highway.

Thirty minutes later, he was sitting with Lucita beneath the shade of a Mexican palm, drinking a beer and waiting for the charcoal to burn to a nice bed of coals.

Twilight had fallen and Lucita had lit several bamboo torches to ward away the mosquitoes flying around the yard. As Ripp watched the flickering fingers of light dance upon her lovely face, he wondered if he should pinch himself to make sure he was awake.

Maybe he was really at the Dry Gulch and had fallen asleep at the bar, because this was more like a pleasant dream than Ripp’s day-to-day reality.

“I’ve got to admit your call really surprised me, Lucita. But I’m very glad you made it.”

She glanced at him and then quickly turned her gaze away as though she was still a bit embarrassed by the whole thing. Sighing, she said, “I hope you don’t think…well, I’m not in the habit of calling a man…not for any reason. And I wouldn’t have called you tonight but—” She broke off awkwardly as she turned her gaze back to him. “I like being with you, Ripp. And I think you like being with me.

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