His Defender by Stella Bagwell

Author:Stella Bagwell [Bagwell, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2003-01-15T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

For the next two days Isabella threw herself into the job of gathering as much information about the T Bar K employees as she could without being openly invasive about it. To accomplish this, she lingered around the work pens, the cattle barns and the horse stalls, catching bits of conversation here and there and simply observing their daily work routine.

Today the men were all working close by, so Ross had invited her to lunch with him and the hands at the bunkhouse. The outing had given her an even closer look at the men, who in Ross’s way of putting it, rode for the T Bar K brand.

So far she’d not gleaned any suspicious activity by any of the cowboys. For the most part they were quiet, polite and hard-working. Only three—Steve, Tim and Jamie—had caught her attention. Mainly because they were the youngest of the lot and appeared to be cocky and a tad on the shiftless side. But she hadn’t sensed any hostility toward Ross from any of them.

If she was making any headway into solving the case of Jess’s shooting, she didn’t know it yet. What was becoming evident to Isabella were her growing feelings toward Ross.

True to his promise, he’d left the boundaries of their relationship up to her. Other than a few casual touches of her arm and hand, he’d not attempted to kiss her or embrace her in any way. The fact that he’d stuck to his word both impressed and surprised Isabella. But on the other hand, she had to admit to herself that she was a bit disappointed that he hadn’t tried something with her.

That day at the meadow, she would have sworn she’d felt a real need in his kiss and the touch of his hands. But she’d obviously been wrong about that. Even his desire for her must have waned, or else it had never been as hot as she’d first imagined and his behavior only proved how easy it was for a woman to misjudge a man.

Still, she couldn’t deny it was a joy to have his company, and she had come to look forward to the evenings when his work was through and he would join her in the kitchen for the evening meal.

But that didn’t mean she was falling in love with the man, she mentally argued, as she stood beneath the spray of the shower. It only meant that he’d become a close friend and there was nothing wrong with that. Except that it wasn’t right to want to touch, kiss and make love to a friend.

With that degrading thought, she stepped from the shower and hurriedly blotted the water from her dripping hair with a thick towel.

Outside the sliding glass doors in her bedroom, sundown was painting the mesa with vivid hues of purples, pinks and magentas. Ross was probably in the house by now or perhaps he was already in the kitchen visiting with Marina while he waited for Isabella to join him.

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