Love Tangle: Riding Bareback by S. E. Margaux

Author:S. E. Margaux [Margaux, S. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

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“Anita. Hey! Anita!”

But Anita was already past the orchard and running up to the guest house. It still hadn’t quite sunk in, and she wondered if perhaps Jo had lied to her. It was preferable, she thought, for her friend to have told her a painful lie like that, than for Tristan to have been... She slowed down her pace, and shook her head, as if she could fling the thought, the image, right out of it. If it was true, she decided, she wouldn't cry. She would definitely not cry. After all, Tristan wasn't hers, he was just a man who was passing through.

She laughed bitterly to herself at her inability to lie to her own heart. Tristan wasn't just a man. There was no one she had ever felt so comfortable and at ease around. Of course, the others probably thought she was awkward and clumsy, but that didn't matter. She felt like she could be herself around Tristan. She liked that she could show him things, and that he listened to her, and that he enjoyed listening to her. Not that the others never listened, but sometimes it felt like they were just doing it to do her a favor. Tristan wanted to know what she had to say. He actually went out of his way to discover more about her. That was special, more special to her than he probably realized.

They could always just be friends, she thought bitterly. They didn't have to be... anything else. Whatever they had begun being.

Right?

No. Even as she entered the guest house she knew she could never just be friends with him. There was just too much there, and it would hurt, it would hurt too much. She realized as she opened the door that she wasn't prepared. She didn't know what she was going to do if she found Tristan there with any of her friends. What could she do? Laugh and leave? Blow it off as if she had just been passing through, looking for some eggs? No, that wouldn't be believable. She'd just have to be upfront.

Even if he had been just a guy passing through, she thought, she would not have expected this from her friend. How could her own friend do this to her? Surely she had made her feelings for Tristan clear to them. They knew. They all knew. The horses probably knew. Or at least that was what she had thought until now. But now... had she been misinterpreting Tristan's signs? Had he not been interested this whole time, after all? Perhaps he really was just using her, using them all, to get free board and food, and a vacation in the countryside. Free riding lessons, swimming in the lake, picnics, and five beautiful women between whom he could choose at will — well, sort of, at least. That sounded a lot more like most men Anita had known. And if Tristan had not felt like all other men, maybe that had just been her imagination.

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