LOVE OF A RODEO MAN (MODERN DAY COWBOYS) by hutchinson bobby

Author:hutchinson, bobby [Hutchinson, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sunflower Publishing
Published: 2014-04-03T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

By eight o’clock that evening, Sara was slumped in a battered deck chair beside the pool at Bitterroot, letting the water drip from her body and her skin dry in the warm evening air.

She’d forged up and down the pool until she was exhausted. The saloon was quieter tonight than usual, which was why she’d chanced putting on her bathing suit and taking a swim. With any luck, no eager cowboy would wander out and notice her and decide she really needed company.

As a precaution, she’d positioned herself so that her chair back shielded her from the doorway that led to the saloon across the courtyard.

She shook her sopping hair out of her eyes and wondered if any trace of the careful makeup she’d applied that afternoon still lingered after forty minutes spent churning up and down the swimming pool.

Probably not. Wasted effort, getting all dressed up and fixing her hair that way. Mitch had been conspicuously absent all afternoon.

Ruth had finally mentioned that Wilson and Mitch were miles away, helping a neighbor with haying. So much for putting on a dress, Sara thought with a wry grin. At least her mother and grandmother had been pleased for once with the way she looked, although Gram hadn’t been fooled for a second as to the real reason for Sara’s finery.

But all she’d said was, “You clean up real pretty, child.” And then she’d winked knowingly.

Sara heard the sharp clip of boots on the cedar decking behind her, and her heart sank.

Damn.

She was going to have to deal with one of the cowboys from the saloon after all, which would probably mean getting up and retreating to her cabin fairly quickly, depending on how much the guy had had to drink.

The footsteps came right up behind her chair and stopped.

“I hear the visit with Mom went really well,” Mitch said. “I thought about you the whole damn time I was slaving on the tractor out in those fields today, Doc.”

He came around and sat down in the other deck chair, looking freshly showered, wearing clean denims and an open-necked light green shirt that matched his eyes... and, of course, his Stetson was tilted jauntily over his forehead.

Sara sat straighter in the chair, wishing she’d at least worn her newer bikini. The old red one she had on was faded to a tired, streaked pink, and the elastic was none too good in the bottoms.

“We had a super visit,” she assured him, with just the slightest trace of a catch in her voice. “I think it did your mom a world of good.”

It felt absolutely wonderful to have him sitting there, grinning his crooked grin at her while his eyes quietly made a sweep up and down her almost naked body and then narrowed.

“Hey, beautiful,” he said, in quite a different tone than before, deep and meaningful. “I wish I’d brought my swimsuit, the water looks great.”

But it wasn’t the water he was looking at, and his gaze made Sara much warmer than she’d felt moments before.

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