In the Stars_The Friessens by Lorhainne Eckhart

Author:Lorhainne Eckhart
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781928085676
Publisher: www.LorhainneEckhart.com

Chapter 8

Danny and Evie had the quietest ride back to the ranch. For the first time in his life, he’d followed behind her, seeing how she sat in the saddle, stiff and straight—seeing her as a woman. Why had he never seen her this way? He must have, on some level, he realized as he remembered kissing her as he had, taking her to the ground, where he’d had to fight against his intense desire to strip her naked and bury himself in her in the tall grass, where he could taste every inch of her, his friend, whom he’d known since they were kids. How he’d been able to pull back, he’d never know, and he was embarrassed still at how he’d behaved, like a caveman. She had every right to be furious with him. It wasn’t lost on him how she’d responded to each kiss, though, as he’d tasted her deeply. She’d pulled him closer and yanked at his shirt as if she couldn’t get close enough.

After unsaddling the horses and brushing them down, he noted her unwillingness to burden him with her problems, but then, he wasn’t about to share what he was feeling about Charlie, either. Charlie was sexy and hot and fun, but she didn’t drive him to the madness he was feeling now.

“Later, Danny,” Evie called out, the first thing she’d said since that kiss. She was walking toward her truck, and the door squealed as she opened it and climbed in.

He was already moving her way and was at her truck when she closed the door, his hand on the open window. She was looking straight ahead, not at him, and he didn’t know how to break the tension that rippled between them.

“We should talk about what happened,” he said, not that he wanted to. He was about as good at sharing as she was, which meant their communication totally sucked.

She looked his way and leaned back in the bench seat. “About what, exactly?”

Was she kidding? He leveled a heavy gaze her way and noticed her blush, not something he’d ever seen her do. “About what happened up in that field. I kissed you, you kissed me.”

She squeezed her eyes shut and covered her face. He didn’t reach out to touch her even though that was all he wanted to do. “We’re seriously going to have this conversation? I thought you’d ignore it and let me just drive away with at least my dignity intact—or partially.” She still wasn’t looking his way, and he didn’t have a clue what she was thinking. Maybe she regretted the whole thing.

“Evie, look at me. We’ve been friends for too long to let this happen. What kind of guy do you think I am?”

She slapped the steering wheel, and he took in the flash in her eyes, the fire spitting his way. “I don’t know, Danny. Maybe not even twenty-four hours ago, you were kissing another girl, and you seemed to love having her hanging off your

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