All the King's Horses by Lauren Gallagher

Author:Lauren Gallagher [Gallagher, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Western, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9781619213227
Google: HXqgHkGkrR4C
Amazon: B009H6W5VU
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2012-12-24T22:00:00+00:00

In front of our shared duplex, Amy parked beside my truck, and we both went into the barn to finish feeding and locking up for the night. Once the horses were taken care of, we walked in silence up the steps leading to our shared porch, brushing a few hay crumbs off our clothes if only for something to do.

On the porch, we stopped.

“Thank you,” she said. “I’m glad we got a chance to talk.”

“Me too,” I said.

We looked at each other as if we each wanted the other to say something, but hell if I could think of anything that wouldn’t make me sound like an ass or tip my hand and… make me sound like an ass. I was afraid to even open my mouth because all I wanted to say was something to the effect of “come inside” or “I’m not ready for this night to be over.”

Amy finally broke the silence. “Anyway. I should…” She bit her lip. “Good night, Dustin.”

“Good night,” I said.

She put a hand on my arm, stood up on her toes and kissed my cheek. Then, probably oblivious to the goose bumps her touch had sent prickling down my spine, she turned to go.

She’d only made it a few steps when I managed to choke out, “Amy, wait.”

She stopped and faced me again.

Ignoring my rapidly beating heart, I closed some of the distance she’d created. Not enough. Probably way too much. God, what was wrong with me?

We held each other’s gazes again, and Amy didn’t speak. Neither did I.

But I was the one who’d stopped her, so that meant I needed to break the silence, and how the fuck was I supposed to do that when every time I looked at her, I thought about that moment when I’d almost, almost, almost kissed her?

“Do you want to come in?” I finally blurted out and gestured over my shoulder at my front door. “For…I don’t know, a drink?”

“I think I’ve had enough to drink recently,” she said with a shy smile. Just before my heart could drop into my feet, she added, “But I’m not sure I’m quite ready to call it a night.”

If my heart beat any faster, I was a dead man.

I swallowed. “Good. I…um… Neither am I.”

Her brow furrowed, and she cocked her head a little. “Something on your mind?”

You know exactly what’s on my mind, Amy.

I chewed the inside of my cheek and forced myself to keep looking her in the eye. “Just…what happened back there, I guess.”

Some color rushed into Amy’s face, and she dropped her gaze.

“You came here because you hadn’t felt anything for the horses in a long time,” I said softly.

Amy nodded. “Because I hadn’t felt anything in a long time.”

“Right,” I said. “Let’s just say you’re not the only one who’s finally feeling something they haven’t in a long time.”

Her posture straightened. “Really?”

“Yeah,” I whispered. “Really.”

Her eyes flicked toward my lips. “So what is it you’re feeling that you haven’t felt in a long time?”

I gulped.

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