The Guardian Groom: Texas Titans Romance by McConnell Lucy

Author:McConnell, Lucy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orchard View Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

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“If I’d known you were going to expose me to this torture, I would have insisted you take me home.”

Owen folded his arms across his chest. Bree’s gaze dropped to his biceps and then went back up to his face. She sat on a small bench, several boxes open, exposing the tissue and plastic coatings on the new boots awaiting her approval, and her shoes sat a good three feet away.

He’d almost kissed her in the car. Almost.

“It’s a boot store—not an open-toe shoe store.” In a town this size, they were lucky to have the boot store.

“But I don’t wear cowboy boots.”

He lifted a finger. “Yet.”

She groaned. “You’re impossible.”

“Thank you.” He took a knee and sorted through the options. The red weren’t Bree’s style. She was adventurous but not showy. The black were bad-A, but still not quite her. Although he wouldn’t mind her in those on the back of his bike. Finally, he settled on a brown pair with emerald stitching up the side. “Try these on.”

She glared. “Bossy much?”

“Much.” He pushed the box closer to her.

“I didn’t know my shoes offended you this badly.”

He sniffed at them in disdain. “Shoes say a lot about a person.”

“And what do my shoes say about me—dare I ask?”

He cringed. “Let’s just say that they don’t speak to your true nature.”

She rolled her hands, encouraging him to continue.

He kicked one of her shoes with the toe of his sneaker. “These are boring, uninteresting. You are neither.”

She stared at him. “You think I’m interesting?”

“Excruciatingly.”

“I’m not sure that means what you think it means.”

He caught the quote from The Princess Bride, and it made his heart light. However, he’d picked that word because he meant every syllable. She was so interesting that it was unbearable. A man could lose sleep thinking about her—he’d lost sleep contemplating Bree. Therefore, he didn’t respond.

She lifted her foot and slid it inside the boot. “I feel like my toes are being strangled.”

“It’s a pointed toe.”

She frowned. “It’s a pinching apparatus.”

Owen had to turn away so she wouldn’t see his you’re-cute smile. No one on earth talked like Bree. Pinching apparatus?

She rustled through the tissue and came up with a darker brown leather boot with a black fringe. He hadn’t pointed to that boot when talking to the salesgirl, who now hovered hopefully near the register. She was the same girl who’d helped him and Kyle when they came in for polka-appropriate wear. He hoped she worked on commission, because he would pay lots of money to get rid of Bree’s ugly shoes.

Bree’s eyes danced right along with the fringe on the boots.

“See?” He pointed at her. “That is why shoes are important. They make you happy.”

She giggled. “I can’t believe I’m even trying these on!” She slipped her feet inside both boots and pranced back and forth. “They’re surprisingly comfortable.”

Caught up in her enjoyment, Owen grabbed her around the middle as she pranced by. “But can you polka in them?”

Her eyes sparkled with challenge. “Let’s find out.

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