Texas Loving by Leigh Greenwood

Author:Leigh Greenwood [Greenwood, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780843956863
Publisher: Leisure
Published: 2007-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Things happened quickly after that.

The woman emitted a kind of gasp and pushed Edward away. Then a hand gripped his shoulder, spun him around, and he saw a fist coming at his face. Trained in boxing from the time he was eleven, he had no trouble blocking the punch, but before he could ask the guy what was wrong, several hands shoved him off the dance floor so roughly, he nearly lost his footing.

“He must be drunk,” he heard someone say.

“I don’t care. That’s no reason to push himself on Carrie.”

“Who the hell is he?”

“Some English dude trying to pretend he’s a cowboy. We ought to teach him Texas cowboys are real particular about the way people handle their women.”

Edward recovered his balance and turned to find himself facing a group of angry men. He wanted to explain he’d let his jealousy over Eden get the best of him, but he had the feeling they weren’t going to accept that explanation. Besides, he couldn’t admit to jealousy in front of Eden. That would be tantamount to admitting he loved her. He heard a movement behind him and turned.

“Are you crazy?” It was Eden. “Were you trying to start a fight?”

“You kissed that cowboy,” Edward protested, pointing to the handsome man, who appeared to be curious but not angry, “so . . . I guess I just, well . . .” he stammered.

A dead silence came over the people gathered around.

Then someone laughed. A second person laughed, then a third until the whole group was virtually doubled up with laughter.

“That’s her brother, you fool,” someone said. “She’s allowed to kiss him.”

“She’s got so many, you can’t blame the man for missing a few,” someone else said, which brought on another wave of laughter.

“I’m Will Haskins,” the man said, introducing himself to Edward and offering his hand. “I take it you’re the Englishman I’ve heard so much about.”

Nearly paralyzed from embarrassment, Edward managed to take Will’s hand. “Edward Davenport. Sorry to create a disturbance. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’d better go. I’d be grateful if you could see Eden home.”

Edward plunged off the dance floor and into the shadows that surrounded it. He didn’t know where he was going or what he was going to do. It didn’t really matter as long as he could get away from those laughing faces. It seemed he didn’t know any more about how to behave in Texas than he did in England.

“Wait up.”

Edward didn’t stop. Eden was the last person he wanted to face just now.

“I’ll keep following you, so you might as well stop.”

“Why? So you can laugh at me like everybody else?”

“I’d never laugh at you.”

He couldn’t see Eden’s expression, but there was no trace of laughter in her voice. “When I said it was okay to give a woman a friendly kiss, I didn’t mean just any woman,” Eden said.

“How am I supposed to know when it’s okay and when it’s not?”

Eden averted her gaze. “Why did you kiss her?”

Edward felt the heat returning.

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