Sweet Home Montana by Lisa Mondello

Author:Lisa Mondello [Mondello, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: western romance, contemporary romance, clean and wholesome, sweet romance, sweet montana, montana sky, lisa mondello
Publisher: Lisa Mondello
Published: 2018-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Fifteen minutes later, they pulled into the restaurants/honky-tonk that had a parking lot full of trucks. Caleb reasoned that it must have good food or good whiskey if so many people were there. Katie reminded him that it might be the only place that was actually open and so it didn’t matter how good the food was as long as there was whiskey.

She was enjoying the simple back and forth conversation. Caleb had always been easy to get along with. He seemed so genuine, something she wasn’t used to after ten years of living with a man who’d artfully deceived her.

And he wanted to dance with her. He’d practically had to hit her over the head to get her to see that he wanted to hold her on the dance floor. Hold her. Like a real date.

For God’s sake, Katie wasn’t a virgin. She’d been married for nearly ten years, not that it meant much now. For all the years she’d been married, she and Bruce had spent more time living apart than together even though they’d lived under the same roof. Work and school schedules had seen to that. She couldn’t remember a time when they’d ever gone dancing or even had a date.

Katie had never been like some of the girls she knew who’d fawn over men. She wasn’t part of the local hockey bunny team, the girls who’d hang out at all the hockey games the boys in town played. Or like the rodeo bunnies that hung on all the men who would go on a weekend rodeo run and come back bandaged and broken from a fall from a bull or a bronc.

She knew too many girls she’d graduated high school with who’d ended up following a man like that. Those guys had big dreams of winning on the rodeo circuit and then became bitter when injury and lack of earnings forced them to quit. Sure, there were plenty of them who did well and she did like rodeo. She’d even promised to go to a few with Tabby when the rodeo season started again.

And she did love it. But she had dreamed of something more in her life. More than just a Saturday night in a honky-tonk or riding from rodeo to rodeo like a gypsy looking for gold.

Her heart pumped wildly in her chest as they made their way to the door. Music was already pouring out into the night from the jukebox along with the sound of the occasional burst of laughter.

“Whatever they’re cooking in there smells good. It’s making me hungry,” Katie said.

They walked to the front door and immediately saw a chalkboard with the day’s specials.

“Bison burger.”

“Is there any other kind?” the hostess said, overhearing their conversation as she walked back up to the podium that held the chart with seating arrangements for the restaurant.

“Are you here for food or for the band?” the hostess asked.

“Both,” Katie said.

She glanced at Caleb, who had an expression of satisfaction he was trying to hide.

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