The Trouble With Texas Cowboys by Brown Carolyn

Author:Brown, Carolyn [Brown, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781402296086
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: 2015-01-06T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Jill and Sawyer walked hand in hand toward the setting sun. The sand was warm on their bare feet. Sea oats waved in the gentle night breezes on one side, and the ocean’s waves gently slapped the sandbar on the other. Sandpipers darted back and forth with the surf, searching for supper, and gulls circled lazily above them. Everything was in its place, doing what it was supposed to do at the end of the day, and Jill’s heart was at peace.

She didn’t want to wake up, so she refused to open her eyes. It didn’t work. The beach was gone, and the only sounds she could pick up were Sawyer’s soft snores and the crackle of the stove wood as it burned. He was sleeping on his back with one hand up under his neck and the other arm around her shoulders.

Easing out of his embrace slowly so he wouldn’t wake, she propped up on an elbow and studied him without fear of getting caught: dark hair, those thick lashes spread out on his cheekbones, that full mouth that could kiss so damn well, and a broad, muscular chest. But there was more to Sawyer than his quick wit and his outer good looks; he was a hardworking, protective cowboy and had a kind heart.

His eyes fluttered open, and he smiled. “I thought I felt someone or something looking at me. I’m glad it wasn’t a man in a ski mask.”

“Think Tilly made it home okay?” she asked.

“I’m sure he and Bessie were home a while ago. It’s dusk out there,” he said.

“Are you my friend?” she asked, bluntly.

“I hope I’m not sleeping with the enemy.” He smiled. “What is this all about, Jill?”

“I was involved with a man for two years,” she said.

“And it ended badly and you need to talk about it? Why now?”

She sat up and crossed her legs. Indian style, her grandmother called it. “I don’t know. It seems like I should, so that the things that are supposed to end will and the sun will finally go down on it all, and…”

Sawyer pulled himself up to a sitting position, adjusted the blanket over their feet, and laid his hand over hers. “Okay, let’s talk. You go first, and then I’ll tell you about my heartbreak.”

She paused. “This is a bad idea.”

“How long since you broke up?” he asked.

“More than a year ago.”

“Have you talked it out of your system with a girlfriend, your mama, or your aunt Gladys?” he asked. “Don’t look at me like that. I have a sister, and I know how females need to talk everything to death.”

She giggled like a little girl. “That’s why we talk about it so long. We want it to be dead and done with when we finish talking.”

“Then talk, and let’s get it in the grave. I’m a damn fine listener,” he said.

“In the beginning, I thought he was perfect. He was thoughtful and kind, and his daddy had a ranch, so we had lots in common.

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