Dylan by C. H. Admirand

Author:C. H. Admirand
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2011-11-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“You gonna tell me what’s eatin’ you?”

Dylan ignored Jesse, grabbed another bale of hay, and tossed it down off the truck. He hurt, inside and out, like he’d had the ever lovin’ shit kicked out of him and then rolled over so the black-haired filly could stomp all over him.

“Never even got to the good part,” he mumbled. He sunk the hayforks into another bale, yanked up the bale, and tossed it down at his brother. Jesse swore as the bale hit him in the chest, but his brother’s anger didn’t faze Dylan. Not much would until he could figure out just what he’d done wrong last night. He hadn’t made any promises that he’d broken… hadn’t cheated on anyone, yet she’d all but accused him of it.

Hell, he felt worse than the night he’d walked in from putting in a full day riding and mending fences and bumped into Sandy on her way out the back door, bags packed, one in each hand. Shock had held him immobile while the woman he’d been planning on marrying carefully placed her bags into her trunk and slammed the lid and turned back to him. She’d had tears in her eyes, but she blinked them away and reached for him, hugged him tight promising to write once she reached her destination in Egypt, and asked him to remember to listen to the next woman who was lucky enough to have him in her life.

That was nearly two years ago and counting. She’d written letters and sent a couple of postcards, but he’d never written back. He didn’t know what to say.

“Never told her I loved her.”

Jesse paused and looked up at his brother. “Did you?”

“I just told you I didn’t.”

Jesse snickered. “No, Romeo, did you love Sandy?”

Dylan kept working, the movement kept his brain from short-circuiting over the green-eyed siren who’d pulled the rug out from beneath him last night. “I thought I did. We grew up together, spent so much time together, and made plans—well, that is, I made plans. She had other ones that I guess I didn’t believe. I never thought she’d actually want to leave Pleasure. Life’s close to perfect out here. Why would she go?”

Jesse shrugged. “Texas isn’t for everyone, Bro.” Wiping his sleeve across his eyes, his brother asked, “So what’s eating you?”

“Siren-green eyes.”

“Ahh.” Jesse took off his gloves and slapped them against his jean-clad leg. “That makes sense.”

Dylan snorted. Didn’t to him. Hell, he still couldn’t believe he’d been accused and convicted without ever having the chance to prove himself. “Women.”

“Can’t live with ’em,” Jesse said cheerfully, walking over to the jug of sweet tea he’d left by the corral. Taking a swig, he wiped his mouth on his sleeve and lifted the jug and shook it.

“Not yet,” Dylan said, declining the offer of a cool drink. “Why do women do what they do?”

Jesse shrugged, pulling his gloves back on. “Why do men keep fallin’ for ’em?”

They looked at one another and grinned. “’Cause they think with their johnsons,” they said simultaneously.

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