Red-Hot Texas Nights by Kimberly Raye

Author:Kimberly Raye
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466868960
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

CHAPTER 19

It was the longest morning of Brandy’s life. Not because the bakery was slow, though that in itself was torture to watch. But because she had three possible addresses for Ryder Jax and she couldn’t wait to do a little recon and narrow down his whereabouts.

Once she knew the location and she’d checked it out to make sure she wasn’t liable to get her head blown off, then she would approach him and talk to him about running her shine.

She thought about ducking away at lunch and leaving Ellie in charge of the minimal stream of customers, but the woman seemed more quiet than usual.

Depressed even.

“Don’t tell me things went sour with the new cowboy?”

“No. Yes.” Ellie shook her head. “I mean, I guess it’s how you look at it. I think he likes me more than I like him and so I had to break it off because, you know, the last thing I want is to get involved with anyone. I like my freedom.”

“You’re preaching to the choir.”

“I mean, he really is cute and there’s just something about the way he looks at me that’s kind of cool. But not that cool. It would never work anyway. He’s not even from here. He’s just here until he heads up to Cheyenne. Which is why I hooked up with him in the first place, you know? He was new. Exciting. But most of all, no strings.”

Yep, she was preaching to the choir, all right.

“If I want some guy blubbering how much he loves me, I could just stick it out with Bart, you know?” She shook her head. “No, thank you.”

She said the words, but there was something about the distant look in her eyes that told Brandy she wasn’t nearly as sure as she wanted to be.

And so Brandy dug in her heels for the rest of the day and did her best to distract her baking assistant. She went over a new recipe for s’mores cupcakes and showed Ellie how to whip up a rich frosting using fresh whipped cream and mascarpone cheese, and she helped her look for Miss Betty’s purse.

It seemed the old woman had left it in the restroom on Sunday.

“Thanks ever so much, dearie,” Betty told her when Brandy handed over the giant white patent-leather bag that had been sitting in the corner of the employee bathroom. “Why, I thought I’d lost it for good.”

“I’m sorry I didn’t find it sooner. I usually notice things like that.” But then she hadn’t been thinking straight the past few days since Tyler had rolled back into town. It made sense that she would have missed the giant purse when she closed up on Sunday night.

“You’ve got your hands busy what with all these great muffins.” Betty held up the blueberry that Brandy had handed her after finding the missing purse. “Take care now, sugar. And thanks again.”

Brandy watched as the woman walked out of the bakery and climbed into a small blue pickup truck driven by a young man in his twenties.

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