One Night With a Cowboy by Sorcha Mowbray

Author:Sorcha Mowbray [Sorcha Mowbray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amour Press
Published: 2020-12-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

With her heart in her throat, Mel watched Ford leave. Damn him. Damn him for walking into her bar. Damn him for reminding her what she had missed for ten years. And damn him for making it so hard for her to stick to her plan. She hadn’t expected him to say those things. To want to try again.

She threw down the bar rag, crossed her arms on the bar, and dropped her head in defeat. A single tear trickled down her cheek. Any other time of year and she would have been strong enough to walk away and never look back. But he had to come back at Christmas. Had to apologize with such sincerity that she wanted to forgive him and fly into his arms. But she couldn’t do it. Couldn’t trust him with her heart again.

Tears rolled down her cheeks and a sob tore from her throat. She ached for the chance to find love again, to maybe fill that gaping void in her life. Instead she let the tears fall until her throat ached and her head pounded. Then she straightened up, finished closing the bar, and went home.

In her apartment with the little Christmas tree on the table, she tried to watch TV, but couldn’t get through It’s A Wonderful Life. Instead she picked up her laptop and looked at her email. She hadn’t checked it in days since she mostly got newsletters and spam mail. The first email that caught her eye made her swallow around a lump in her throat. After everything that had happened that day, of course the dating service Carla had convinced her to sign up for sent her an email.

Needing a little fortification, she got up, grabbed a beer, and headed back to her couch. She clicked on the email and waited for the message to pop up. She skimmed through it.

Dear Ms. Adams,

I am delighted to tell you that your date has been arranged for two days from now. You will arrive at The White Rose promptly at seven in the evening where a man in a black Stetson will await you. We would appreciate it if you would wear a red dress so that he may know you are the woman he is looking for. Please allow twenty-four hours’ notice if you feel you cannot meet this gentleman. Enjoy, and remember to make the most of this chance.

Selena Markam

President and CEO

Soul Mates Dating

Mel sipped her beer. Ill-prepared to deal with everything floating in her head, she shut the computer down. Thoughts of Ford were all tangled up in her negative feelings about her mother, and then there was her pain from his own actions. It sucked that together they had managed to ruin Christmas for her. It had always been her favorite holiday. Now it was simply a reminder that the man she loved didn’t love her, and the mother who should have loved her died at the bottom of a bottle long before her body ever left the earth.

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