Hot Summer in Texas by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488078255
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2020-06-26T14:12:43+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

YOU CAN MARRY ME.

Those were the words that’d been going through Marco’s head for the past two days, and they were continuing to repeat as he rode in from the pasture after checking the fences.

Words that he shouldn’t have heard.

But Lana had taken her ex-boyfriend’s call while Marco had been standing right in front of her. Hard not to hear when they were standing only inches apart.

Prior to the call, they’d been well on their way to revving up their bodies to the point that they might have dragged each other off to bed. That wouldn’t have been a good idea. Even though at the time it’d felt as if they’d had no choice.

There was no choice about this attraction he felt for her, either. Or his feelings. Those were the most troublesome. After all, sexual attraction could happen between plenty of people who didn’t even care for each other. It could mean nothing other than just sex.

But feelings meant something.

The trouble was he needed to figure out exactly what that something was while dealing with his worries about Benji and the possibility that Lana would accept the marriage proposal from her clown of an ex.

You can marry me.

Lana hadn’t given the man an answer while she’d been standing there, but she had said she would talk to him later before she’d ended the call. She hadn’t had that talk while she’d been at Benji’s that night, but Marco suspected Lana had contacted the man at some point in the past two days. Maybe she’d even seen him so she could agree to a marriage to fulfill the conditions of Benji’s promise.

Marco had never met Nolan, but he was certain about the guy being a clown. And an idiot. Why else would he have let Lana go? Then again, that also made him an idiot clown since he hadn’t been able to stop her from leaving, either.

Cursing himself, the situation and everything else he could think of to curse, Marco unsaddled his horse, brushed her down and made his way across the backyard to the house for a shower. Maybe if he made the water cold enough, it would cool down both kinds of heat. The one from the ninety-degree summer temps and the one that Lana had ignited inside him.

Of course, the shower didn’t help with the internal heat, but that would have been somewhat of a miracle if it had. Thoughts of Lana stayed with him while the water spewed over him. Pushing into his mind. Taunting him.

Making him ache for her.

That’s why he thought he was seeing a mirage of her when he stepped from the shower and she was standing in the doorway of his bathroom. Her back was to him, but if it was a mirage, then it was a darn good one because that was Lana’s backside.

“I wasn’t gawking at you,” she said.

She wasn’t. She didn’t even turn her head and glance over her shoulder. Though Marco did some glancing of his own once he realized she was the real deal.

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