Lady Luck's Cowboy: A Contemporary Western Romance by Gina Cole & Ginny Sterling

Author:Gina Cole & Ginny Sterling [Cole, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

10

It was a fairly easy game. They played all afternoon in the customer lounge area of her small garage. Honestly, the game went as Charlie would have expected it to go. A lot of smiles, a lot of laughs and a significant amount of cheating between Beth and her roommate. The first time she saw a card slid underneath the table they sat at, Charlie was outraged at the obvious cheat. Beth just grinned at her, stuck out her tongue and moved on winning the hand. They shuffled and played again. As they got towards the end of the game that she and Jack were winning, this time, Jodie (the roommate) slid a card blatantly across the table to Beth in front of them all, smiling like the Cheshire Cat.

“What the heck, Beth?” Charlie asked, laughing and met Jack’s eyes. He shrugged and looked pointedly at their hands. She knew he was right at that moment. Beth would do anything to get by and succeed, including cheating. So instead of focusing on the cheating the duo was doing, she focused on Jack and how he played.

There were subtle movements that he did, and she began to pick up that they were clues to her. For instance, if he had the next few hands, he would tap the card on the table absently and look at her. It was a casual look, not a “hey, I’ve got this” look. Learning his signs was giving them the advantage. The cheating was even more rampant now and, yet, they were still winning.

At five o’clock, Charlie flipped off the open sign and locked the garage doors before returning to the table for the last few hands. They had whittled away the afternoon quite nicely. In fact, she realized that she had not had such a peaceful afternoon in a long time. It was wonderful. As she and Jack cleaned up the last few rounds, Beth got her purse.

“I think it’s time we head out. Jodie said she was buying dinner tonight and I’m not letting her get out of it. I bought the last three times.” Beth saluted. “Bye, lovebirds!”

Shaking her head at the exit, Charlie smiled at Jack. “She’s quite the cheater, isn’t she?”

“I didn’t want to say it, but yes,” he admitted, sitting back in his chair with a smile. “Did you see them giving each other high fives and exchanging cards?”

“No! They did?”

“Why do you think they did it two times in a row? One gave a card, then they slapped hands and the other gave a card. They are really bad cheaters, but really good people.”

“Yeah, they are,” she admitted. “I had fun today.”

“And it’s not over yet.”

“I’m glad.”

“Me, too.” Jack grabbed the basket and pulled out a bottle of wine. He then reached in and grabbed two small votives, as well as a lighter. “I thought we’d have a candlelight dinner, just you and I?”

“That’s so sweet, but I didn’t cook anything.”

“I didn’t ask you to.” His hand dove in the basket again and brought up a cheese tray as well as a box of crackers.

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