Mail Order Cowboy by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates [Yates, Maisey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2018-04-30T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

JACKSON WASN’T SURE what woke him up. He had been sleeping better than he could remember sleeping in months, and suddenly he wasn’t. His bed felt empty, and for a moment he couldn’t figure out why that was notable. Not when it had been empty since Lily had come into his life. And then he remembered.

Savannah.

He had taken Savannah to bed last night.

Thoroughly.

And while part of him wanted to give himself a pat on the back for rocking her world the way that he had, because damn, she’d been shaking and crying in his arms, she’d come so hard, another part of him knew that he didn’t deserve to feel proud of what he’d done.

But then, he didn’t feel proud of much. He wasn’t sure why suddenly that was a requirement. She hadn’t stayed in bed, and that did concern him. It made him wonder if maybe she was feeling...regretful, or something.

It wasn’t like he hadn’t had his share of sexual encounters that had some regrets in the end. Tipsy hookups ended that way a lot. On both sides, frankly. But...he cared. Because hookups that ended in regret weren’t something Savannah normally did. And he didn’t want her to feel any regret over what they’d done. Mostly because he wanted her to be able to enjoy the fact that it had felt good.

Is that why?

What other reason could there be?

He got out of bed and put his jeans on with nothing underneath, zipping them and walking out into the main part of the house. It was quiet, and then he noticed that there was a small shaft of light coming from under Lily’s bedroom door. He walked that way, and pushed it open.

Savannah was there, dressed in a simple pair of gray thermal pajamas, cradling Lily to her chest, rocking in the chair and rubbing his daughter’s back as she hummed.

Her voice was sweet sounding, soothing.

It reached down inside of him and made him feel like she had grabbed hold of his heart. Like she was cupping it in her palm, and could decide whether or not she was going to squeeze it, twist it or destroy it completely. On her whim.

At the same time, she was holding his daughter in her arms, an extension of that feeling. That she had his heart in her hands. But she was gentle, the look on her face serene.

“Hi,” he said, his voice rough.

She looked up, her green eyes wide. “Did she wake you?”

“No,” he said. “The fact that you weren’t in bed did.”

“Lily started crying, and I realized we forgot to bring the monitor in. I could hear her through the walls.”

He shook his head. “I didn’t hear her at all.”

“I wasn’t... I wasn’t sleeping,” she admitted.

“Are you all right?”

Her smile turned dreamy. “I’m fine.”

It was hard to breathe all of a sudden. “I was worried that you were upset,” he said heavily.

“No,” she said. “I was just... It’s silly.”

He walked farther into the room and stood in front of her, leaning back against Lily’s crib.

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