Once Upon a Cowboy: contemporary fairy tale romance (Cowboy Fairytales Book 1) by Lacy Williams

Author:Lacy Williams [Williams, Lacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Lacy Williams Books LLC
Published: 2016-05-31T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Around lunchtime, Gideon got a call from Cash that there was some chatter about continuing plots against the Glorvaird royalty.

Which was exactly what he didn't want to hear.

According to Cash, there were no whispers of the princess's location, but after finding the cigarette butt that shouldn't have been there, he spent the afternoon scouting for any other signs that a stranger had been on the ranch.

Hours of riding and tracking didn't turn up anything else, but he couldn't get rid of the sense that someone with an agenda had been here. He'd learned to trust his gut, and his gut was hardly ever wrong.

He spent the next hour in the barn, making calls to locals, asking if they'd seen any suspicious activity. Probably they all thought he was nuts, but he couldn't help that.

The sun was setting and his stomach was growling when he headed across the yard for the house. He hated the feeling of blindness. Hated thinking someone could be watching the place, and he wouldn't know until it was too late.

As he crossed the yard, the back door opened, and the princess appeared, stepping out onto the back porch. Out in the open.

The hair on the back of his neck rose all at once, and he took the porch steps at a run. "Get back," he ordered, but either she didn't share his sense of urgency or she didn't realize anything was wrong, because instead of moving, she froze.

Which meant that he collided with her, full body, knocking her off her feet. He heard her gasp as he swept her along with him, quickly thumping her back against the clapboard siding. It wasn't enough to keep her out of sight, so he tucked her head into his shoulder, too.

"I told you to stay inside," he said harshly, breath sawing in and out of his chest. Adrenaline pulsed through his veins with every throb of his heart.

She said something, but it was muffled against his chest, and he couldn't make it out.

He shuffled the both of them two feet to the left and yanked open the screen door before he pushed her inside, careful to keep himself between her and any possible threat.

Only when he had slammed the interior door shut and bodily pushed her several feet into the mudroom did he take a deep breath.

"What's the matter? Gideon?" That was Carrie's voice, coming from the kitchen.

Alessandra watched him with eyes wide and dark with fear. All the color had leached from her face.

"Gideon, let go of her."

He still held both of the princess's shoulders, though now she was at arms' length and not pressed close to him. Her flowery scent was burned into his nostrils, into his brain.

"Gideon," Carrie said again.

He shook himself out of the moment, dropped his hands to his sides, realizing for the first time with some clarity that Alessandra was dressed up. Oh, not dressed up, per se, but differently than she had been yesterday. She wore some kind of fuzzy sweater over a pale yellow dress that flared around her knees.

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