Second Chance Cowboy by A.J. Pine

Author:A.J. Pine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Ava shifted in the passenger seat, trying to admire the beauty that was San Luis Obispo wine country. The rolling green of the vineyards—endless rows of grape plants leading straight to hilltops shadowed in the setting sun. Today she sat in Jack’s truck, and she should have been grateful for the freedom to appreciate the view. Instead she was restless.

Jack settled a palm on her bouncing knee and she sucked in a breath.

“What’s going on?” he asked, his hand flexing at her reaction before he quickly pulled it away.

Um, we’ve been working together for five days now, and this is the first time you’ve touched me since Monday’s bee sting incident. But that was their deal, right? One time only. But instead of scratching an itch she’d opened the floodgates of need. Not that she could tell him that.

“Nothing,” she lied. “And you really didn’t have to be my chauffeur to and from the ranch today. That’s a lot of time in the car, and I don’t mind the drive.”

He shrugged, both hands back on the wheel. “You’ve been working your ass off this week pruning those vines. Least I could do is save you some mileage on the Jeep. Plus, it’s not exactly a punishment to spend a little extra time with you.”

She let out a breath and tried to force her gaze out the window instead of to her left where he sat in that fitted gray tank and jeans, his work uniform for the warmest weather they’d had this week. And she definitely wasn’t noticing how his blond hair curled above the tops of his ears—or how a few days without shaving had lined his jaw and mouth with a sexy scruff he’d never had as a teen.

Nope. She wasn’t noticing any of that. And she certainly wasn’t squirming in her seat because of it.

“Something’s up,” he said, calling her bluff.

She crossed her arms and groaned as he slowed to turn into her long driveway.

“It’s nothing. Thanks for the ride,” she said as he rolled to a stop. Then she hopped out of the vehicle before she said anything stupid.

She was almost inside the house when she heard his car door slam, effectively stopping her in her tracks.

“Ava.”

Damn him for that insistence in his tone, for that deep voice that spoke her name like no one else ever had and—she was beginning to realize—like no one could. That voice could make her core tighten and her heart ache, and it was succeeding at both right now.

She turned to find him leaning against the truck’s hood, all six-foot-who-knows-how-much-more feet of him, his hands in his pockets and his biceps flexing as if to say, You know what’s up, Red. And the longer you look at me, the more powerless you are against me.

She dropped her bag at her feet and pointed at him. He wanted answers? Fine. He’d get them.

“This,” she said. “You standing twenty feet away from me. It’s been like that all week. Every day out in the vineyard you’ve made sure there are at least two rows between us.

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