The Littlest Cowboy by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Maggie Shayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Western, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780373077168
Amazon: B00M2EP5ZW
Goodreads: 2430753
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 1996-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

Garrett closed the bedroom door, leaned back against it and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead. Dammit, but he’d never felt more like a schoolboy than he did right now. And the scariest part of the entire experiment was that it had worked! He pulled the index cards from his pocket, scanning the lines quickly to be sure he’d covered everything.

Never felt like this before…like the way I feel when I’m with you…more than just a small-town sheriff. Yup, he’d covered everything Jessi had written down. And tossed in some of his own lines to boot. He’d thought Jessi had gone plum out of her mind when she’d set him down to coach him on what to say. But maybe she knew a little something about what made women tick after all. Hell, she was one.

Imagine that. Little Jessi, a woman. All grown up. He’d never thought of her that way before. But she obviously understood this stuff. She’d told him these kinds of words from a man would make her melt inside, then assured him they’d work just as well on Chelsea. And by heaven, she’d been right.

Garrett flipped through the cards to the ones yet to come.

Let’s see. Music. Candles. Wine. And the compliments. Dammit, if they weren’t the most flowery things he’d ever heard, he didn’t know what were. But the other stuff seemed to have been effective.

Besides, he’d taken his own precautions as backup. He’d reserved every single seat on the two flights to New York tomorrow. Just in case.

Chelsea came down the stairs, and Garrett turned when he heard her steps. He was ready to tell her she was “a vision too beautiful to be real.” But when he saw her, he forgot his lines. Everything rushed right out of his head because the sight of her hit him right between the eyes.

She wore a silk sundress that was the same deep green as her eyes. Thin straps held it up, and it fell over her slender curves like a caress. Her vivid red hair was caught up in the back, leaving delicate curls springing free around her face. The high heels made her legs seem like weapons, deadly weapons that could bring even a man his size right to his knees. For just a second, he felt they were aimed at him.

“Damn, you look good.” Garrett bit his lip after the words escaped and tried to recall his lines. “I mean–”

“Thank you.” Her face flushed with pleasure, and she smiled. Well, hell, he hadn’t blown it with that slip after all. She reached the bottom of the steps and gazed past him. “This is nice. You did all this for me?”

He turned to survey the transformed living room. There was a small fire snapping in the grate and a little round table set up by the picture window. Two tall candles glimmered on the table, their light sparkling off the bottle of chilled wine and the dishes set there.

Garrett would have preferred a cold beer, but hell, if it kept the lady alive….

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