His Heart by Laney Powell

Author:Laney Powell [Powell, Laney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Jensen

I couldn’t make out what was up with Carissa when I’d seen her at her grandmother’s sale. She’d been shy, and if I’d seen correctly, doing a lot of blushing.

But she wouldn’t look at me. I’d managed to make eye contact with her before I left—to what end, I wasn’t sure. It was hard to talk with her with Freeze not missing a thing. Pris was pretty observant, too. I didn’t need them knowing I’d nearly slept with the granddaughter of their friend. Well, maybe it wouldn’t have gone there, but somewhere close.

For the next two days, I did my chores in relative silence. I couldn’t get Carissa out of my mind, and I couldn’t stop thinking that I needed to stop thinking about her. I was older, and no good for her.

After lunch on Tuesday, I heard a car coming down the drive toward the house. I walked to the door of the barn to look out, and saw Carissa getting out. Quickly, before she saw me, I ducked back into the barn. I hadn’t come to any solution to the ‘I want her, I shouldn’t want her’ argument going on in my head.

However, I didn’t move fast enough to miss the sight of her hair blowing in the wind, or her ass walking away from me in jeans, and I cursed my traitorous anatomy that didn’t give a single fuck about my circular argument.

It struck me then that this sort of shit was why I was happy to be part of a SEAL team. Focus on the mission and spend a lot of time not worrying about emotions. It was all about get the job done. I stopped, pitchfork in hand, struck by a thought. Maybe Pammy had known that, too. That I was better away from home for long periods of time, and there was no way I could be landlocked, and in a regular relationship.

Holy shit. While I shook my head to clear it, the thought remained. What if that’s what she meant by not wanting to be with an ex-SEAL? Was I more fucked than even I realized?

How long I stood there with my mouth hanging open, I didn’t know. But I nearly jumped a foot high when Axel came in. “You all right, man?”

“What?”

Axel smiled. “You okay?”

“Yeah, sorry. I am. Just lost in thought for a minute.”

“Clearly. You want to head out with me for a bit?” He gestured to the horses.

“Sure, yeah.”

We saddled the horses and headed south along the river. The herd had moved in the last few days, and Axel liked to check on them. He was like a mother hen, but I understood. This was a fairly new venture, only a year or two old, from all the conversation I heard.

“The numbers looking okay?” I asked after we’d been riding for a bit.

He nodded, his eyes meeting mine from under his hat. “Yeah, they are. But Carissa was giving Granddad hell this morning because she said that he’s a new business, and he needs to be more precise with his accounting.

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