At the Rancher's Pleasure--An older woman younger man Western romance by Joss Wood

Author:Joss Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-11-25T15:50:27+00:00

Nine

The next evening, Sarabeth sat in her SUV on Main Street, her fingers gripping the steering wheel as she stared into space, thinking about her conversation with Brett the previous evening.

His revelations about his mother startled her. She’d not expected him to share something so incredibly personal and his frankness, and those hints of vulnerability that he’d allowed her to see, touched her deeply. Too deeply.

It also, despite her blithe talk about just being his “transition girl,” made her acknowledge that she didn’t want to let him go. That she might, foolishly, want more...

She wanted the next woman he fell for to be her.

Oh, Lord, she was in a world of trouble. And it was all of her own making...

How could so much have changed in just a few weeks? For years and years, Sarabeth considered herself to be so damn savvy about relationships, thinking she had it all figured out. She’d convinced herself that princes didn’t exist, that there were only frogs to be kissed and fairy tales were a lie all little, and big, girls were fed. And after over a decade of treating dating like she was on the pageant stage, giving the judges what they seemed to want with scant regard as to whether she was happy or not, she’d given up men altogether to focus all her energy on Sarabeths!

She had plans to travel, to see the world, and she was prepared for those cities, their people and their culture, to mold and change her, to help her grow. But of all the places in the world she intended to visit, she never expected her views about life, and love, to be challenged in Royal, Texas.

She’d thought herself so smart, so cool to be having an affair with a younger, sexy guy, convinced she had this all under control. But she’d never, not for a second, planned on feeling this much for Brett, of teetering on the sharp edge of falling in love.

Sarabeth rested her forehead on her hands and told herself she was getting swept up in the moment, that she was giving a deep and intense conversation more power than it deserved.

They were friends and friends confided in each other...

Sarabeth felt a spurt of annoyance at her rationalization, acknowledging that she was looking for an excuse to justify the way she was feeling. She’d studied enough psychology to know that people tended to lead with their emotions first and make up reasons for why they were acting the way they did afterward.

So what was she feeling? Way down deep where only truth resided?

Sarabeth placed her hand on her sternum and forced herself to get real. She was, she reluctantly admitted, scared of what she was already beginning to feel for Brett.

And, because of her fears, she’d sprouted that nonsense about being his “transition girl,” the woman who could bridge the gap between his waifs and strays and someone who didn’t require rescuing.

The problem was that a part of her, the hopeless romantic she

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