How To Catch A Cowboy: A Small Town Montana Romance by Joanna Bell

Author:Joanna Bell [Bell, Joanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-05T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Jack

I woke up before Blaze. She was still asleep next to me, her mouth open slightly and her body curled tightly into mine. I studied her face. Her lips were full and her eyelashes so long they grazed her cheeks. She had a freckle, too, just to the right of her nose. And even as she slept, there was an expression that looked like very mild skepticism on her face – a certain tightness of forehead. I wondered where that came from. Had she always worn that expression as she slept? Or was it something that came with adulthood, or with the type of work she did – or maybe even with me? Maybe she was dreaming of something dubious?

I grinned at my own adolescent reverie and slipped, very carefully, out of bed. I was hard again, and I knew that if she woke up and so much as said my name in that sweet, slightly rough-edged voice of hers, we were both done for.

"Jack?" She murmured, waking slightly in spite of my carefulness.

"Shhh," I said quietly. "Go back to sleep, baby. I'll be back in twenty minutes."

I grabbed another blanket from the linen closet in the hall and lay it over her before I left. It was freezing in the truck, so cold I could see my breath. I wasn't feeling the cold, though. Not like usual. There was a warmth in my chest and my belly, a contentment that neither the winter nor, for the time being, my worries could get to.

Blaze. I smiled at the mere thought of her. She was the one responsible for that warmth, the gift of herself. I wondered if she knew how much it meant to have her there with me, during those last few days at Sweetgrass Ranch. I didn't imagine she did.

At the drugstore, Krista Jones served me. Krista Jones was Lisa Halloran's best friend, and Lisa Halloran was Brandon Schneider's girlfriend. I reckoned it wouldn't take much longer than twenty, maybe thirty seconds for Krista to call her friend after I left and report that Jack McMurtry had just bought three packs of condoms.

Normally, that would have irritated me. Knowing that I would be one of the subjects of the usual gossip at the Little Falls Saloon that night. That day, though, it didn't even mildly annoy me. I felt oddly untouchable.

When I got back to the Ranch, Blaze was awake and in the kitchen, opening cupboards. When she heard me she turned and smiled, her whole face brightening at the sight of me.

"Don't do that," I said, putting my keys and the bag from the drugstore on the table.

"Don't do what?"

"Don't do that thing – that adorable, smiling thing."

"Why?" She asked, coming to me and resting her cheek against my chest.

"Because I might get used to it," I whispered, kissing the top of her head.

Blaze looked up at me, smiling at first and then more serious. "Yeah. Me too."

I was about to say something when my phone rang.

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