Lucky In Love by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown [Brown, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Source Books
Published: 2010-12-19T03:39:02.849683+00:00

THIRTEEN

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MILLI WORRIED WITH HER HAIR FOR TEN MINUTES while Katy played on the floor at her feet. Finally, in exasperation she twisted the back up and held it with a clasp. She checked her makeup again and reapplied a tawny lipstick. It had literally been years since she’d been out on a date. Not since Matthew. Not since the night before she had found him in the motel room and swore that she’d never trust another man. If he could look deeply into her eyes and tell her how much he loved her without blinking, and go straight into the arms of another woman, then how could she trust anyone else not to do the same thing?

She adjusted her bra strap so it didn’t show under the sleeveless dress she’d chosen to wear. It was just a simple, bright floral rayon, flowing in soft gathers from a fitted waistline to the edge of her anklebone. She slipped her feet into a pair of red leather sandals, the same color as the predominant flower in the fabric. “Do I look like someone set me down in the bougainvillea?”

She picked up the newest perfume she’d bought at the mall the previous week - something called Green Tea - then, with a mischievous grin, she set it back down and picked up a half-used bottle of Taboo and dabbed a little behind her ears. She seldom ever used that fragrance anymore, not since the wedding in Texarkana. Matthew hated it and in defiance she’d picked it up and taken it with her when she went to east Texas. After she’d found out she was pregnant, she put the perfume aside as a bad luck omen and hadn’t worn it since.

“We’ll see how good his memory really is, or how drunk he really was,” she said nervously.

Just like always, Beau shook the legs of his jeans down over his boot tops when he got out of the truck. It hadn’t been so very long since he’d dated Amanda and called her every night during the week, so why did he feel like a fifteen-year-old out on his first date? If he hadn’t sworn completely off liquor when he awoke in the back room of that trailer almost two years ago, he would have poured himself a healthy shot of Jack Daniels just to get rid of the jitters.

“Hello,” Jim said from the shadows in the corner of the porch. “See you’re right on time, son. Have a seat here and talk to me. How’d the cattle sale go?”

“Fine. Bought a bull and two calves. One of the boys over at the Bar M left this morning with the trailer to go bring them home. Saw some fine white-faced cattle and missed you being there with me. Might have bought a cow, but I wasn’t quite sure. Remembered you saying once something about when in doubt, back out. Maybe you can go with me next year?”

“I damn sure hope so,” Jim said. “I could’ve gone this year, but I’d have had to fight Mary and it wasn’t worth the trouble.

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