Wild Wyoming Nights by Joanne Rock

Author:Joanne Rock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-05-08T20:27:33+00:00

Nine

Alone in her suite, Emma stepped out of the steamy shower and toweled off with one of the Turkish terry cloth bath sheets. She should be exhausted from the long day and the stress leading up to the stunt, all the wondering if she would be able to pull it off.

But her evening with Carson had left her wound up. Exhilarated. She was unable to settle down even though it was well after midnight. Their time together had been surreal, so special it almost felt like it had happened to another person.

But now she wasn’t sure how to face the days ahead with him when she knew that what seemed life-changing for her was just a passing pleasure for someone like Carson McNeill. That had been the point of her mother’s urgent texts earlier today. A warning to Emma not to fall for a McNeill the way Jane Layton had once fallen for her employer, Emilio Ventura, father of the man now directing Winning the West. The affair had destroyed Jane’s marriage, probably playing a role in Emma’s father’s suicide, although Jane had never admitted as much. Hurt stabbed through Emma at the thought of her dad, her memories of him painfully scant.

She combed the tangles from her damp hair, wishing she could sort through her muddled thoughts as easily.

She recognized how she might be following in her mother’s unwise footsteps. Because while neither Carson nor Emma was married to other people, there was still the same kind of imbalance between them. Carson moved in a world of privilege and wealth that allowed him to jet around the country at a moment’s notice. Emma was a maid’s daughter still trying to duck a jailbird ex. What was more, she wasn’t sure she’d come to terms with the fact that she’d stayed in a relationship with Austin after he’d hit her the first time. She wanted to think she would have kicked him to the curb on her own without the intervention of people at her gym the day he’d been arrested. But that decision had been taken out of her hands by the courts, so she’d never had the satisfaction of making it herself.

All this time—training harder, becoming a stuntwoman, getting physically stronger—and she still had no idea if she was tougher where it counted. Emotionally.

That fear was what had sent her running from the best night of her life. The best man she’d ever met.

Yet she had his T-shirt to remember what had transpired between them. Slipping it back on now over her naked body still warm from the shower, Emma padded to the bed and slid between the covers. Everything about her room was luxurious, from the high thread count sheets and white goose down duvet to the thick pile rugs and custom furnishings with rustic touches. Yet the thing she liked most about it was wearing Carson’s shirt. The soft gray cotton held the clean scent of detergent, but underneath that, just barely, she could catch the scent of him.

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