Call of the West by Myrna Temte

Author:Myrna Temte
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2003-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Hope waited until she heard the shower running upstairs, then sagged against the counter, covering her face with her hands. The big jerk. She should’ve drowned him in that stock tank. What was she going to do about him?

To her, those moments in the barn when they’d been laughing uproariously together had felt absolutely, delightfully perfect. And that kiss had been so special. No, it had been much more than special. It had been…stupendous. Magic. Sheer heaven. There were no words to adequately describe its effect on her.

Had it meant anything to Jake? Anything at all? No, she didn’t think so. When she’d pulled back, he hadn’t looked any happier than he had after the first time he’d kissed her at the wedding reception.

How could he kiss her senseless one second and regret it the next? It seemed so unreasonable for him to react that way. But then, she kept forgetting he thought she was a flaky California floozy. For pity’s sake, he’d been surprised when she’d tried to help a suffering animal. She wanted to hit him for that. Really hard.

She took an onion from the wire basket in the pantry and hacked it to pieces. Realizing she’d cut way more than she needed for the omelet she intended to cook for herself, she banged down the knife, washed her hands and smacked the omelet pan onto the burner.

Honestly, she didn’t know which of them was dumber. Jake for not loving her. Or herself for loving him anyway. And still secretly hoping he might learn to love her someday.

Where the hell was her pride?

And what kind of a fairyland was she living in? Yes, Blair and Emma had found love with McBride men. But, as Jake had so succinctly put it, he wasn’t Dillon, and she wasn’t Blair. She wasn’t Emma, either.

No, she was Hope DuMaine, eccentric writer. Hell-raiser. Darling of the tabloid press. The kind of woman mothers warned their sons to stay away from.

She’d waited her whole life for someone to love her. Someone who would look behind the image she projected to the woman she really was inside. No one but Blair, Emma and Marsh had ever come close. Not even Hope’s own parents.

So what if she’d foolishly fallen in love with Jake? Why had she thought he might be different? Simply because she wanted him to be? Life didn’t work that way. Even she had figured out that much.

Grabbing a green pepper, Hope diced it into perfect cubes. She scraped the vegetables into the skillet with her knife, wishing she could clear her unproductive thoughts as easily as she’d just cleared the cutting board.

“There is no Mr. Right.” She slammed the board onto the counter. “Get over it and move on.”

Discouragement crashed on top of her like a dump-truck-load of rocks. Maybe Jake was right and she really didn’t belong here. Living so close to him would be difficult at best. After the way George had abandoned her, she certainly didn’t owe him a thing. Should she simply pack her things and go back to L.

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