Smooth-Talking Cowboy by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates [Yates, Maisey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2017-12-20T13:25:03+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

LUKE HADN’T TEXTED Olivia or called her that day, and he was starting to feel a little bit like an ass. But, he hadn’t wanted her to come spend the night at his place after that conversation about his mother. He had never told anyone about that. Had never talked about the money, the complex blame that he felt. The complex anger.

The way that he blamed his mother and himself for everything that had happened.

The way the money felt like more of a curse than a blessing, but a curse that he had to use to try and fashion it into something of a blessing, because if he didn’t, it would just be another failure as a son.

Then that encounter in the barn, which had been explosive as hell, Olivia dropping to her knees in front of him and taking him in her mouth.

Beautiful Olivia Logan, on her knees for him. Yeah, that was an image that was going to live in his mind until he was dead.

Maybe even after.

If you got to watch a reel of your greatest hits in the afterlife, he was pretty sure that one was going to be on his.

And then he slid inside of her and the whole world fell away. It had just been the two of them, and it had been so raw and focused that he hadn’t been able to handle the idea of going to sleep with her, too.

He had never thought of himself as a coward. But he was beginning to question that.

“You interested in going out drinking tonight?” Wyatt asked.

They had just wrapped up a long day out in the field, and it was only four o’clock. Still, Luke could barely walk after a whole day spent riding, and then fixing the fence, which was worse than a day of squats in the gym. He assumed. He’d never had a need to go to the gym, since he spent all day, every day, doing hard labor.

“Not particularly.”

“I talked Grant into going out,” Wyatt said.

Damn. Luke could hardly turn his friend down in that case. And he ignored the part of himself that whispered in his ear that he was rationalizing, that he was trying to get out of doing the right thing, which was making contact with Olivia, by pretending that he needed to be there to hold Grant’s hand.

But, in fairness to him, Grant hadn’t gotten out there and done a night out in a while. And the guy needed to get out.

Having known Grant for the past eight years, he knew that he wasn’t as mired in his grief as he had been back in the beginning. But it was bad enough.

“How did you do that?”

“He just said that he wanted to. So, far be it from me not to oblige him.”

“Hell, no,” Luke agreed.

“You might have to play designated driver,” Wyatt said.

“Oh, come on,” Luke said. “You’re gonna do that designated driver crap on me?”

“We can draw straws, but I think we have to let Grant drink.

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