Taking a Chance by Maggie McGinnis

Author:Maggie McGinnis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2017-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“So? What do you think?” A couple of hours later, Jasper reined in his horse at the top of a rise, and Emma pulled up beside him. “Is this view enough to make you forget about the cowboys?”

Emma shaded her eyes and looked toward the western horizon, where the Crazies jutted toward a sky that was a color she hadn’t seen since her first box of crayons. Below her, a valley filled with golden-tipped grasses made for a rippling seascape in the soft breeze. Beyond that, dark firs dotted a hillside, drawing her eye upward toward the purple-gray mountains in the distance.

“It doesn’t look real.”

“Blink and look again.”

“I tried that. Didn’t work.” She pointed at the mountains. “They look like they’re a million miles away, but also like they’re right at the top of that hill. It’s surreal.”

“Isn’t it amazing?”

“I don’t have words.” She sat in the saddle, just looking at the view, feeling like she’d been transported to an alternate universe where the only sounds were birds and leaves, and the only smells were the firs and the late-summer flowers, and the delicious horsey scent of Honeydrop, who’d been carrying her for miles now.

“Are you going to take pics?”

She shook her head. “It’d be impossible to capture this. I just need to memorize it.” She took a deep breath. “All of it.”

He smiled at her, and she couldn’t help but see the satisfaction in his eyes as he did so.

Fine. He’d been right. She did need to get her head—and her body—out of the office more, proverbially or otherwise.

“What’s your favorite thing you’ve seen so far?”

“Still the cowboys. Sorry.”

Yeah, she’d go with that. Because otherwise, she’d say something about the sight of his butt in those Wranglers, or how when he tipped his Stetson just right and smiled back at her, it kicked off just about every cowboy fantasy she’d ever had.

She honestly had never realized how many she could come up with, on short notice.

He laughed. “Clearly I have more work to do here, then. Did you not see the mountains over there? How the sunlight’s hitting those leaves above you? The deer we saw in that meadow an hour ago?”

“Yup. I saw them. They were awesome.”

“Just not as good—”

“Not as good as the cowboys. Sorry. It’s really a shame so many of them are married, though they sort of gloss over that fact on the website, don’t they?”

“Oh, for God’s sake.”

Emma laughed. “I’m kidding.” She swept her arm toward the valley. “I haven’t thought about the cowboys in—like—fifteen minutes. This view is beyond anything I’ve ever seen in my life, and I’ve got ocean views to compare it to. It’s not like I’m from Arkansas.”

“True.”

“Thank you for dragging me out here. I had no idea what I was missing.”

“You still don’t.” He slid down from his horse and pulled the reins over its head. “Come on. There’s something over here that I think you’ll love. We can give the horses a little break.”

Emma kicked her leg over, sliding down with far less grace than he just had.

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