Tempting in Texas by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2020-11-25T16:56:41+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

HAYES SAT AT the kitchen table and waited. His sisters had called a 9:00 a.m. family meeting, but it would be another fifteen minutes or so before they showed up. Maybe, just maybe, he’d be awake by then.

He was pretty sure he was now immune to the caffeine in his coffee because it sure as hell wasn’t working. Even after two huge mugs of it, he was still fuzzy-headed, still feeling a couple of steps off.

It was too bad that he couldn’t have a sleep transfusion, since apparently he wasn’t going to get a good night’s rest without something like that. There were just too many things on his mind. Sunshine’s deadline, which was today. The possible cancellation of Outlaw Rebels. His still-healing ribs.

And Cait.

Yeah, she was definitely on his mind.

Their make-out session the night before had had an abrupt ending because of his pain, and while he’d gotten his fill of the chicken dinner, the rest of the evening had left him with an edgy need that felt like a throbbing pulse all over his body. Not pain. Nope. But an itch in desperate need of scratching.

Cait was probably feeling some of that throbbing, too. She’d gotten off, but a hand job was no substitute for the real thing, and he was betting that he was on her mind, as well. At least he hoped he was. Because it would suck if he was the only one of them who was dealing with raging hormones and doubt. That doubt was so strong that Hayes knew he should reconsider seeing her again.

If I’m not careful, I could fall in love with you.

Yeah, those weren’t good words for her to say, or for him to hear. She’d tried to cover them, of course, but Hayes thought she’d blurted out the truth when she had said them. He also wasn’t sure that Cait could be careful enough to guard her feelings. Not that she would automatically fall in love with him. Nope. But they were getting closer, no denying it, and with closeness came sex. Sex could lead to...well, all sorts of things other than just climaxes.

He had just about convinced himself to put some emotional distance between them when he heard the sound of jingling bells.

Cait.

She was here at the ranch and wearing the accessories to feed the duck. That brought Hayes to his feet. It cleared out some of the cobwebs, too, and gave him a full kick of heat. Heat that quickly cooled when Tony, not Cait, came jingling into the kitchen.

As usual, Em’s fiancé was smiling, and he was moving as many parts of himself as a man his age could manage to move, no doubt to heighten the noise from the bells. Some of the bracelets obviously hadn’t fit around his wrists and ankles, so he had them dangling from the belt and his fingers.

“You’re feeding Slackers this morning?” Hayes asked him.

“I am. Cait and Em swear the bells keep him at bay.”

Hayes figured that assortment of jangles would keep almost anything at bay.

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