Marrying a Cowboy by Anne-Marie Meyer

Author:Anne-Marie Meyer [Meyer, Anne-Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-11T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Emma

Emma stood on the dance floor, watching Austin walk away. She wasn’t quite sure what just happened. All she tried to do was get closer to him, but he didn’t want her to. Apparently, she’d been the only one feeling anything. She shook her head as she headed over to the bar and ordered a Coke.

How could she be such a fool? He didn’t want to be married to her. He didn’t want kids. All he wanted was to stay at his ranch. Alone.

She sighed. Fine. She’d let him do that. When his grandmother got here, she’d be the doting wife—fake it like the best of them—and then leave. She wouldn’t even make him come back to prove things to her mother. She’d release him from the contract and never think of him or Montana again.

Pulling out her phone, she turned it on. Scrolling through the contacts, she found Vincent’s text. Would it be so bad? After all, he was her ex. And he seemed genuine. What could it hurt?

Pressing her finger on the text bar, she wrote a message.

Thanks for contacting me. Things with Austin aren’t so good.

A guilty feeling settled in her gut. Why was she telling him this? Then she took a deep breath and hit the send button. She needed to start thinking about her future. One that didn’t include Austin.

“You okay?” Jasmine’s voice broke through her thoughts.

Emma clicked her phone off and her text faded to black. Turning around, she plastered on a fake smile. Jasmine was watching her with her eyebrows raised.

“Just messaging a friend back home,” Emma said, trying to keep her voice steady. How much had she seen? Why did she care? Austin pretty much told her he wasn’t interested in her. What did it matter who she moved on with?

“It looked like trouble in paradise,” she said, slipping onto the bar stool next to Emma. She motioned to the bar tender who set a wine cooler down in front of her.

“What?” Emma scoffed. “No. Definitely not. Austin thinks he had some bad fish earlier. He needed to use the restroom.” She was married to him. She could lie like that. Right?

Jasmine’s drawn-on eyebrows rose higher. “Oh. Not good.”

Emma turned to her Coke and took a sip. “Yeah.”

Silence fell around them. Thankfully the band started their next song, surrounding them in the upbeat dance that had half the bar moving around on the dance floor.

“How long have you known Austin?” Jasmine asked. Just as Emma parted her lips to respond, Jasmine spoke up again. “I’ve known him since high school. He’s never mentioned you.” She narrowed her eyes as she took a sip from the bottle.

“We met at a retreat a few years back.” Emma’s memories returned to the Austin she’d been introduced to back then. There was something different about him now. He wasn’t the arrogant guy he portrayed.

“When he was dating Georgia?” Jasmine reached out and took a few pretzels from the bowl in front of her.

“Yeah. She was there.

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