To Tease a Texan by Georgina Gentry

Author:Georgina Gentry [Gentry, Georgina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Oklahoma, General, Romance, Western, Historical, Fiction, Texas
ISBN: 9780821777060
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2006-02-28T05:00:00+00:00

Larado was still dusting flour from his shirt when he strode into his office. Paco looked up from his Police Gazette magazine. “Hey, boss, what happened to you? You look like you fell in a flour barrel.” He laughed, but Larado didn’t.

“Marriage,” he snarled. “Now I know why they make so many jokes about it.”

The younger man opened his mouth as if to ask, but Larado cut him off. “Haven’t you got something to do? Go check on the prisoners or something.”

“Boss, we got no prisoners.”

“Then go arrest some, damn it!” Larado flopped down in his chair and put his boots up on his desk. The young Mexican grabbed his hat and fled.

Larado sighed. Things were a mess, all right. Here he’d thought he had a good place to hide out, even a job he really liked, and then she’d showed up. He couldn’t risk that she’d tell what she knew, especially in this town that was giving him both affection and respect. He liked that. As an orphaned saddle tramp, he’d had little of either. Just when he’d thought he had a whole new life, Lark showed up, pretending she didn’t know who he was and pretending she cared about him. He’d had to woo and marry her to keep her from spilling the beans, hadn’t he? Yet after last night, he didn’t know what to think. He’d never had loving like that before. A virgin saloon girl. That really surprised him.

“Lark Witherspoon, you are the fly in my buttermilk—and have been since the first time I met you,” he grumbled to himself. What was he to do? He couldn’t move out of the house—it would cause too much gossip and too many questions from curious townspeople. Yet, living with the fiery Lark would be like sharing quarters with a bobcat. He could drift on, like he’d always done, rootless and alone. He’d taken this job to have a refuge after the bank robbery, but he was growing used to the homely little hamlet, and he liked the respect he got from the townspeople. He didn’t want to leave. Damn Lark, anyhow. What was he going to do with her?

Through his dirty window, he saw someone walking along the wooden sidewalk on the other side. Larado leaned forward and squinted. It was Lark, walking toward her hat shop, followed by that ridiculous donkey with its big pink hat. So she was opening her shop today. Maybe she had cooled off. If not…He shuddered. What a hellhole married life with her was going to be. He smiled when he thought about last night, then he frowned. She’d made it clear there wasn’t going to be any more fun and games in the bedroom. It wasn’t even noon yet. Maybe by dark, she’d be cooled off enough that he could return home without being hit in the head with a coffeepot.

Lark walked down to her shop, followed by Magnolia. She’d almost given up trying to keep the little gray donkey in her pen.

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