Lucas: The Loner by Cindy Gerard

Author:Cindy Gerard [Cindy Gerard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459278547
Publisher: Harlequin

Six

Kelsey was ready and waiting when Lucas stepped into the living room, showing her yet another physical side of his appearance. A side that, like the others, threw her offbalance again.

No working rancher met her this time. No faded jeans. No blue chambray shirt. No soft worn moccasins. Instead, a Wyoming cattleman joined her in a white shirt, dark tie, black suit pants and dress boots. This was a businessman successful at what he did and comfortable in his element. A man who could hold his own in a corporate boardroom or seduce the most sophisticated socialite into a bedroom.

As they silently shared the meal Naomi had left for them, Kelsey wasn’t entirely sure she was comfortable with this side of Lucas Caldwell. Not that she was comfortable with any of the sides she’d seen to date. She was just more familiar with them.

Thanks to Bax. Once she’d made up her mind to stay, she’d locked on to Bax like a burr in a mare’s tail. She smiled softly, recalling his words with affection and thought of their day together.

After a number of heroic standoffs, Bax had finally frowned, scratched his head and pinned her with a look. “He’ll have my hide-worthless as it is-if he finds out I’ve been yapping my jaws to you.”

“Just tell me about it, Bax,” she’d coaxed softly and before she could stop herself, made him a promise. “I promise you I’m not out to hurt Lucas.”

Liar, her conscious had taunted, reminding her that she had a history of using extreme methods to get her story. It was at that point that she’d discovered she didn’t much like the way she’d been seeing herself lately. Wasn’t too sure she even liked the woman she’d become-a woman who would charm information out of a well-intended old cowhand who had a weak spot for a young woman and a soft spot for a hard man.

She’d like to blame her father for the driven, succeed-atall-costs overachiever she’d become. And she’d like to blame Caldwell for this brutal self-assessment. He’d bruised her with his hostile accusations. Stripped her bare with his searing looks and blistering kisses that made her think like a woman instead of a professional.

She’d had to force herself to remember that she had a job to do. In the end, she hadn’t gotten much else out of Bax, though. She hadn’t really tried. She’d told herself it wasn’t because she felt guilty. It was just that she didn’t need to be a mathematician to add two and two together and come up with a bad marriage and a manipulative woman-a city woman-who’d thought she could civilize a cowboy who liked his life just fine the way it was.

No wonder Caldwell wanted to hate her. No wonder he was so angry with himself that he’d let her get under his skin. And she had gotten under his skin. If that kiss he’d given her last night didn’t prove it, she didn’t know what did. The man had a need.

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