The Long Ride Home by Kari Lynn Dell

Author:Kari Lynn Dell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sweet romance;no sex;rodeo;cowboy
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-01-10T15:54:46+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Kylan remained stubbornly silent through the rest of the practice session, responding to all attempts at conversation with grunts and shrugs. After a few tries, David left well enough alone.

When Kylan did speak, it was a whole four words. “Shouldn’t we go now?”

David checked the time on his phone. Crap. It was after three. “He’s right. We’d better scat.”

“You sure?” Rusty asked, shooting David a loaded glance that clearly said, “You can still take Muddy and run.”

“I’m sure,” David said. Almost sounded like he meant it too.

They took the direct route, rather than Kylan’s shortcut, and David kept one eye on the clock, tapping his fingers in a nervous beat on the steering wheel. He’d meant to get home before Mary even knew they were gone. No chance of that now. She’d have time to stew before they got back to her place. To think about where they’d been. Didn’t take a fortune teller to predict how she’d feel.

It was four-thirty when they rolled into Browning. As the community college came in sight, Kylan spoke up. “Could you drop me off at Starr’s place? We’re supposed to go to a movie tonight.”

“Oh, sure,” David grumbled. “Let me take all the heat.”

“It was your idea,” Kylan said.

“You aren’t even gonna take care of your horse first?”

“He’s not my horse anymore,” Kylan said flatly.

The kid had a point. He also had some serious attitude. David wasn’t sure how much more of it he could tolerate, so he said, “Fine. I’ll handle it.”

Kylan ignored his snide tone, pointing to a street across from the Town Pump. “Turn up there.”

David followed Kylan’s directions to a white clapboard house with peeling paint and a rickety woven-wire fence. The yard was clean though, the grass mowed, a pot of pink geraniums on the front step.

Kylan bailed out and slammed the door, buried his hands in his pockets and slouched his shoulders as he circled the front of the pickup without a glance in David’s direction. David watched him go, kneading the steering wheel with his hands. What the hell? Everything had seemed fine on the way out to Rusty’s place and while they were saddling up to rope. Kylan had even laughed when David got slam-dunked. What had got up his ass all of the sudden?

David shook his head, baffled, and eased away from the curb. A right at the next street took him down to the main drag. He turned left, toward the fairgrounds, and was deep in contemplation of just how damn good that last run on Muddy had felt when a siren shrieked behind him. He glanced down. Nope. He wasn’t speeding. Maybe they were after someone else. But the cop car stayed right on his bumper when he turned into the casino parking lot to get off the street.

David peered in his rearview mirror and his good mood evaporated when he saw the blocky form behind the wheel. Oh, hell. JoJo.

Then the car stopped, the passenger door flew open and David realized the cop was the least of his problems.

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