Want Me, Cowboy by Sinclair Jayne

Author:Sinclair Jayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2016-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“Well?” Tanner demanded later that afternoon, her attention completely focused on Luke.

He took a bite into the dark chocolate, salted caramel, and lavender square and let it work its magic in his mouth. He wasn’t that much of a candy or chocolate fan, but he was enjoying to Tanner’s undivided focus a little too much.

“Good,” he finally said, when he could talk.

“Good? That’s the best you got?” She scoffed. “Sage Carrigan’s chocolates are the best! She’s a local and one of the first business owners to really wake up Marietta to the possibility of being a tourist destination. Her chocolates are destination chocolates, and I bet they could beat chocolates in France, Switzerland, and any other European country famous for chocolate. They are the best.”

He found himself smiling inside. She held out the rest of the chocolate he’d taken a nibble from, silently daring him to finish it so he could praise it properly. He loved the way her skin gleamed and her pale freckles played across her skin like a star map. Her greenish, hazel eyes were free of the earlier shadows he’d seen when he and his brother had joined her to look at the stock she’d brought to supply the rodeo. He’d suggested they attend the town’s barbeque and street fair after he and Kane had looked at the ten Triple T bulls, and they had watched as four more had been delivered.

Kane had inspired awe among everyone there. Luke didn’t begrudge him the attention. He would have hated it. He loved riding. But it was a job. And he didn’t want the other aspects of it. The social. The adoration. The demands of management and sponsors. The scrutiny. All he wanted he thought as he watched Kane turn it on was to get away with Tanner.

He leaned forward. “This chocolate can’t begin to compare with how sweet you taste,” he said softly, and then took the rest of it from her hand with his teeth and then leaned in close enough for her to take a bite.

He should tell her he knew Tucker. Had known her a long time ago. He’d been trying to carve out a time to tell her, make it casual, not a big deal, but he had a sinking feeling it would matter a lot to her so he wasn’t thrilled to open the topic. He needed to, but between Tanner bumping into many friends—she seemed to know the entire town and Kane improbably tagging along, he hadn’t had the chance.

And the more time they spent together, the more he wanted to put it off, but then it would get awkward to tell her later. And he really wanted there to be a later, which he was trying to not examine too closely, but “hey, Tanner, I think you’re great and would love to try to see you again after this weekend, by the way I slept with your twin a few times, but that was over years ago,” didn’t exactly fit in with natural conversation.

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