Love With a Long Tall Texan by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Short Stories (single author), Love stories; American, Cowboys, Texas
ISBN: 9780373483792
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1999-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

She laughed. "Not today."

"Okay." He pushed back a stray strand of her hair, admiring its softness. "I'l see you in the morning, then."

"I'll look forward to it."

He sobered. "So will I." There was an odd little glitter in his eyes. It grew as he looked at her. It was almost as if he had to jerk his eyes away from hers and force himself to move away. In fact, that's exactly how it was. He liked women, and from time to time he was attracted to them. It hadn't been like this. He wanted this woman in ways he'd never wanted any other.

He hesitated as he reached the truck. "I meant it about the doctor," he said with genuine concern.

"If mat cough doesn't stop, see someone."

"All right." She smiled, waved, and closed the door.

He drove away, but not without misgivings. He didn't like the way she looked when that cough racked her. She was fragile, but she didn't realize it or just plain ignored it. She needed someone to take care of her. He smiled at the random thought. That was certainly an outdated notion. Women didn't like being taken care of. They wanted to be independent and strong. But he wondered if they didn't secretly like the idea of being nurtured by someone—not control ed, dominated, or smothered, but just...

nurtured.

He thought of her as an orchid that needed just the right amount of attention—a growth mixture of bark, a little careful watering now and then—to make it grow. Orchids needed lots of humidity and cool nights. He smiled at the thought of Candy letting him put her in a pot and pour water over her. But it was the sort of thing he wanted, to take care of her and never let her be hurt again. He scowled, because the things he was thinking were very much against his nature. He was a loner. He'd never thought much about nurturing anything,

much less a woman. He couldn't think of Candy any other way, and he'd known her only a matter of days.

It was too soon to be thinking of anything permanent, he assured himself. Al the same, it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on her. He had a feeling that she was going to form a very large part of his future happiness.

Back in the motel, Candy had final y gotten the best of the raging cough by stifling it with a large pot of strong black coffee. She hadn't expected results, despite Guy's assurances about coffee being good for asthma, but apparently he was right. She frowned. If she did have asthma, it was going to complicate her life. Working around ranches and wheat straw dust and grain dust was going to constitute a major challenge, even if mere was a reliable treatment for it.

She sipped her coffee and thought about Guy's concern, about the way he took care of her. She was a modern woman, of course she was. But it felt nice, having somebody care what happened to her.

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