Her First Christmas Cowboy by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2021-08-12T15:27:59+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

SHE HAD CUT out a big square of plastic for him, and he taped it right over the stitches. All the better to get that shower done, since apparently he smelled, or she wouldn’t have said anything earlier when she’d walked past him.

She didn’t smell. Not like anything other than sweet soap and skin.

And he wanted to inhale her.

And he knew that he couldn’t. Knew that he shouldn’t.

She’d gone off to fetch some clothes for him, and he hadn’t asked where. He hadn’t wanted to prolong the moment being half-naked around her, frankly.

He was doing his damnedest not to take any of the open invitations that he sensed coming from her. Because he knew that she was inexperienced. Because he knew that he was the one who had brought potential danger to her door. Because he had interrupted her life.

Because he had nothing to offer her no matter what.

But that didn’t stop him feeling things all the same. And he’d very nearly blown it when he felt her checking him out on his way up the stairs. He’d almost said something.

She was beautiful. So damned pretty, and the way that she openly appraised him made his blood run hot. But he couldn’t afford to let his blood run hot with her. No, he sure as hell couldn’t.

He got into the shower and stood beneath the hot spray, feeling a hell of a lot more fatigued than he would’ve liked to admit. Chopping that wood and making dinner had taken a lot more out of him than it would have under any other circumstances. He was used to hard work.

Used to it, enjoyed it. He hadn’t been working much, particularly the past year, because he’d been deciding where he was going to settle, where he was going to buy a ranch. But he got out and rode his horses every day.

He worried about his horses. He knew that his neighbor would make sure that any of his livestock was taken care of at the property that he rented, but he just hoped that his brother wasn’t vindictive enough to come back and do something to his animals.

There was a moment where he felt light-headed, and he stumbled slightly in the shower, slamming against the wall and knocking a passel of bottles onto the tile floor with a big crash.

He was fine. And he was still on his feet. But this injury was a damned humiliation. He felt like an infirm toddler.

And then the door swung open. “Are you okay?” And her eyes went wide. He hadn’t shut the door on the shower, so she could see inside. He knew that. The same as he could see her expression, all shocked and red as her eyes roamed over his body.

He gritted his teeth, willing his body not to visibly respond to the provocation of her gaze.

“I’m fine,” he said.

She shut the door quickly, and he let the water run over him for another couple of minutes before he got out.

He’d scared her.

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