One Night With a Cowboy by Cat Johnson

Author:Cat Johnson [Johnson, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2013-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

Becca picked up her cell phone, then put it back down on the table. Staring at it wasn’t going to magically resolve the situation with Tucker. Though calling him might not do that, either. He’d seemed pretty angry with her at the party.

She let out a huff, wishing Emma were here to dial the phone, then hand it to her once he’d answered and it was too late to hang up, like she’d done when Becca was too chicken to call and invite Billy Beckley to the junior prom. That had worked out pretty well back then. Billy had said yes, but unlike her prom date, Tucker wasn’t seventeen. He hadn’t spent the entire eleventh grade sitting next to her in English class asking her to help him with his essays.

Then again, she’d shared much more of herself with Tucker than she ever had with Billy.

Her laptop was out on the table, the staff directory on screen and scrolled to the page listing the staff members with the last name beginning with J.

J for Jenkins. J for jerk, too, at least today. Maybe she was to blame for not telling him about the interview at OSU. Probably more than he was for not telling her he was only a part-time bull rider but a full-time soldier and teacher, also, as coincidence would have it, at OSU.

Neither of them was at fault, really. There had been a lot of sex that night, but not all that much discussion. Though there had been enough talking for her to know she really did like him. Enough to regret they had nothing in common—or so she’d thought. A bull-riding cowboy surrounded by sexy young girls all the time, and a recently scorned and still insecure English professor from New York—of course she’d thought they had no future together. Who could blame her?

But he wasn’t only a bull-riding cowboy. He was faculty, like she was. And now she lived in Oklahoma, like he did.

Damn, it was a hell of a coincidence. If there was such a thing as fate, what was it trying to tell them? That they should be friends? They should be together? They should have more casual sex?

Who the hell knew? Fate should learn to be more specific. Then again, God helped those who helped themselves. She grabbed the phone, punched in the number, and didn’t let herself think or she might second-guess the decision.

“Hello.” The deep tenor of his voice, funneled directly into her ear from the cell phone’s earpiece, sent a shiver down her spine.

Memories of that night cascaded over her. “Hi. It’s Becca.”

The dead air on the line during his agonizingly long pause didn’t bode well for the success of this call. “Oh. That’s why I didn’t recognize the area code.”

Small talk. Okay, that was fine.

“It’s a New York area code. Dutchess County, actually. That’s about seventy miles north of Manhattan.” And now she was babbling, and that wasn’t going to get her what she wanted. “Um, have you eaten dinner yet?”

There was another long pause.

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