Cowboy Heartbreaker by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2017-12-21T14:24:43+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

ALLIE PACED ACROSS her living room and wondered if Ryder had been kidnapped. Of course, the chances of something like that happening in Wrangler’s Creek were slim to none. And she certainly didn’t wish for that to happen. Still, it would be one explanation for why he hadn’t knocked on her door.

One hour and forty-five minutes.

That was how long it’d been since Ryder had thrown down the sexual gauntlet. Then, Allie had hurried home, showered and gotten ready for what she’d hoped would be one unforgettable evening. She’d even lined up an argument or two in case Ryder was having doubts and showed up to call things off. Even though Ryder had been the one to throw that gauntlet, it was possible—highly possible, even—that he not only had doubts, but that he also wouldn’t show.

With that thought clamping around her heart like a gorilla’s fist, Allie sank down onto the sofa, put her face in her hands and willed herself not to cry. Tears never helped anything, and besides, she’d known it’d been a huge risk letting Ryder know just how attracted she was to him.

A risk that could ruin their friendship.

When she was with him, and the lust was zinging back and forth, it was much easier to convince herself that sex wouldn’t ruin anything. That it would make it better. Yes, better. She had to admit now that lust could talk her into just about anything when it came to Ryder, and the ankle hickey was proof of that.

The hickey had faded, and the heat generated from the flirting and kissing in the tack room was just a memory. A very vivid memory, but still it wasn’t happening now, and it might never happen again.

The gorilla fist squeezed even harder.

Allie blinked back those blasted tears that kept threatening, waited several more minutes, and then she got to feet, ready to throw in the towel. There were four pints of rocky-road ice cream in the freezer, but she’d start with the spray can of cheese. It wouldn’t taste especially good, but before the Crab Posse had been of legal age to drown their sorrows at the Longhorn Bar, it had become their go-to vice.

Easy Cheesy cures all.

Sometimes, the cure had gotten really messy when it had become an all-out spray-cheese war with Curt, Bree, Ryder and her. That had often resulted in better moods but the necessity for showers and shampoo.

She popped the top of the bacon-and-cheddar-cheese goo and squirted a gob in her mouth—just as there was a knock on her door.

“Ryder,” she said on a gasp of breath. Well, she said it as well as she could say anything, considering the massive cheese-product obstacle that was now in her mouth.

With the can still in her hand, Allie ran through the living room, forcing herself to slow down just so she wouldn’t look overly eager. But she had to ditch the hope of looking less eager because she couldn’t hold back from throwing open the door.

It was Ryder, all right.

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