Their Ex's Redrock Dawn (Texas Alpha Biker) by Shirl Anders

Author:Shirl Anders [Shirl Anders]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary western romance, second chance, contemporary romance
Publisher: Shirl Anders
Published: 2014-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

FOURTEEN] You’re So Bossy

Zeb’s head turned. “You have a tennis court, babe. Do you play tennis?”

Carly blushed, then shook her head.

She watched Zeb’s light blues, outlined by dark lashes that made his eyes pop in an intense way, looking over her resort spread. It was a multi-level sprawl of over five thousand square feet, with six bedrooms, five baths, four outdoor decks, ten acres, and a quarter of a block walk down to the lakeshore. She could have gotten closer on the ten acres, but she’d wanted that wide, grassy yard before you hit the beach-like shore, then the lake.

Most people would twist their heads back and forth looking it all over, but Zeb just swept his gaze with an immobile jaw that had her not knowing what he thought. Like, did he think it was too much? It was really embarrassing, but she’d built the house, lakeside dock, and patio, with sheltered boulder grotto, and lighted water features—had a blast doing it, and she’d especially loved decorating it once it was done, but then after the builder was gone and every throw pillow was placed to perfection, she’d looked around and realized she’d built a freaking estate. But for whom? She was on her own then.

Then she’d decided it was for a husband and children someday. But any man she’d dated she’d been hesitant to bring out to the lake house. It had just seemed so over the top—well, it really was over the top, and what did that say about her? All kinds of things she felt uncomfortable with, the first being “I’m loaded and have way more money than you.” The second was “I’m loaded and therefore you could either be very uncomfortable about that fact or you could instantly become gold -digger guy.”

Then there was the other thing she could feel, the thing she felt with Zeb looking over her place: did he think all that luxury defined her, making her arrogant and frivolous? Because the damn place really took a lot of work to keep up, and she’d bought another house in town so Rick had never known about the lake house. She rarely got to come out to it.

It was all twisted with something to do with her childhood, and not having a mom growing up or a permanent home because her dad, while wonderful, moved a lot, following business, which he did a lot.

“The best damn house I’ve ever seen,” Zeb said.

Carly sucked in a breath, startled at the feelings rushing through her. She wanted to lean forward and ask him, “Really?” She couldn’t believe he thought that. Did he really think that?

“Thanks,” she muttered, not sure what to think, but the accompanying embarrassment vanished.

“You do this all yourself, sweetness?” Zeb asked, pulling the truck around the circular drive. He glanced at her as she bit her bottom lip and nodded. “You have a hell of an imagination, baby,” he said, stopping the truck. “And style.”

She would have smiled, but she was still mad at him, so she reminded him of something she’d been reminding him of since they’d met.

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