Lakota Legacy: Wolf Dreamer\Cowboy Days and Indian Nights\Seven Days by Madeline Baker

Author:Madeline Baker
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2012-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Her behavior had been horribly childish, but Meredith had nevertheless made her desires fairly clear, she thought. She hoped. She thought she hoped.

Seduction wasn’t her best talent. She wanted to be wooed. She certainly wasn’t going to throw herself at the man. Maybe he wasn’t as attracted to her as she was to him. Maybe all he really wanted was room and board. He wouldn’t want to hurt her feelings. She liked that. There was so much about him that she liked. He was a little shy about some things—wanting her to think of him as a cowboy rather than a clown.

Maybe he was shy about sex.

Right. Say the word, he’d said. Smart clown. You asked for it, he could say later, and he’d be able to quote the verbal contract, chapter and verse.

Wrong. He wanted her to be as clear with him as he’d been with her. Crazy-laugh-out-loud clear. Free and clear. He would come for her soon.

Ha-ha! He would come for her. Wasn’t she naughty, though?

Maybe she was setting herself up for a huge disappointment, but she was going to be ready, just in case.

The dim pink glow of the seashell nightlight in the bathroom was all the light she needed for her bedtime ritual, even though she was changing it somewhat. She’d passed over the usual pajamas in favor of her only diaphanous garment, the long white nightgown that shared the back of a drawer with a couple of pairs of satin bikini panties and several bundles of lavender sachet. What the heck, she’d told herself when she’d gone back for a pair of the bikinis, might as well go all the way. She was amazed they still fit. It had been a long time since anyone had seen her underwear.

That’s what I figured.

What else had he figured? She leaned close to the bathroom mirror as she patted miracle age-defying anti-wrinkle cream around her eyes. It seemed to be working, especially in this light. She’d admitted to being older than he was, but she didn’t think she looked it. His face was pretty craggy for a forty-year-old. In a nice weather-beaten, sun-drenched way, of course. She, on the other hand, had been happily grazing in the over-the-hill pasture for almost eight years.

Happily.

The familiar patter of canine paws drew her from the mirror into the bedroom. She almost expected Lydia to wander through the doorway and hop up on her bed, but she greeted Raven by the correct name.

“Did he kick you out of his bed?” Her gown puddled around her as she knelt to exchange pets for licks. “You haven’t been drinking from the big white bowl, have you, Raven? Does he leave the lid up for you?”

“Did you leave your door open for me?”

Her gaze traveled from boots to jeans to belt buckle, bare chest, to the hat brim dipping close to the dark eyes of the man standing in her bedroom doorway.

“I haven’t gone to bed yet,” she said, her mouth suddenly gone dry.

“Good, because I just finished the tiling, and I could use a shower.

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