Dance With Me by B.J. Daniels

Author:B.J. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, short stories, short story, romance short story, montana, romance short stories, bj daniels
Publisher: B.J. Daniels

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Betty Lou Garrett. Tanner closed his eyes and opened them again, expecting her to be gone. Nope.

Still he knew he must be dreaming. Betty Lou? Here with him? Driving his truck down the road as if she was being chased out of hell?

Her hair was wet and hung in curls around her face. Her Montana sky blue eyes snapped when she looked at him.

Betty Lou looked so real.

He reached out to touch her. She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. She had that same kind of look the mountain lion had had the instant before it struck so he pulled his hand back.

“Talk to me, Tanner. Tell me why I should have danced with last night. Tell me why you think you’re God’s gift to women. Tell me anything, but try to stay awake.”

“Am I dead?” he mumbled.

“Not quite. I found you under a tree, freezing and disoriented,” she said, her gaze on the logging road she was racing down.

The pickup bounced around a curve. The pain in his thigh brought back the memory of the mountain lion but little else.

He glanced down to find that he was nearly naked under the sleeping bag. “So you took advantage of me?” he asked with a grin.

She shot him a warning look. “Don’t make me wish I’d left you under that tree.”

He noticed that she seemed to be trying to keep one eye on the road and the other on him. He laughed. “Betty Lou, if I didn’t know you better, I’d think you were afraid of a wounded, half-froze-to-death cowboy. Or is it that you’re afraid because you can’t trust yourself around me?”

She shook her head but she was smiling.

Tanner moaned beside her and started to snuggle down deeper into the sleeping bag.

“Why do you think it is that women seem to fall for a guy like you?” Betty Lou asked him.

He opened his eyes again and smiled. “It’s my charm,” he whispered. “It’s killer.”

She snorted and they both laughed, though Tanner’s was weak.

“You know I’ve always thought there was something about me you didn’t like,” he said.

“Where you’d get an idea like that?”

He grinned. “I knew I had to be wrong about that. I figured you were just trying to hide the fact that you’re crazy about me.”

“I think you’re delirious again.”

He chuckled. Their gazes met for an instant, and in his eyes she saw something that made her ache inside.

She looked away. Up ahead the lights of the ambulance flashed in the snowy darkness.

The ambulance took Tanner to the hospital. Betty Lou went back to the ranch to take care of her horse. She had a deputy come out and take Tanner’s pickup back to his place so he’d have it when he got out of the hospital.

Betty Lou called the hospital next. Tanner was in stable condition, the nurse said. She hung up and tried to put him out of her mind. But even when she closed her eyes to sleep that night, Tanner’s handsome face grinned down at her.

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