Lucky Chance Cowboy by Teri Anne Stanley

Author:Teri Anne Stanley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2019-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Emma’s phone chimed with an incoming text, but she couldn’t seem to force herself to surface from her dream, where she floated in a sea of warmth and arousal. Her body was cocooned in heat and she never wanted to move, except to shift toward the something that promised to ease the throbbing between her thighs.

She slowly opened her eyes and realized that she was so secure because she was firmly wedged against Marcus’s body, his arm wrapped around her waist and holding her close. Everywhere they touched, her blood thrummed, nerve endings alive and yearning.

How had this happened? The last thing she remembered was eating the final mystery flavor Airhead and watching Sam fight some demon thing that was trying to seduce Dean into giving away… She had no idea.

And now the television screen was black, and the room was dark. Daylight was gone. How had she slept so long? It had only been early afternoon when they started to watch TV.

She was in bed with Marcus. Somehow they’d both fallen asleep and migrated so that they were intimately snuggled up together.

Was this a good thing? Her body certainly seemed to think so. Her brain couldn’t come up with any reasons why not at the moment, and reminded her this had been building from the moment they’d entered the hotel. She knew better than to trust her brain, but it had been so long since she’d relaxed enough to let anyone else hold her close, to make her feel safe, that the tiny little voice telling her to be careful, she’d be sorry about this, got drowned out by the soft sound of Marcus’s deep, steady breaths moving strands of her hair.

She looked down at his hand wrapped around her forearm and wondered at how different he was. This was beyond race and gender. He was different from any man she’d ever known.

She barely remembered her father as a kind but distant man. He’d worked too hard, was always gone from home—until he was gone from the earth, killed in the same accident that took her mother. Her granddad, who’d taken her and Adam in, was also good, but almost…cold, as though he were terrified to let in the softer emotions. He was fair and hardworking, and gave Emma everything he thought she needed, but he didn’t know what to do with her emotional, parentless self. It wasn’t until Granddad began to get confused as dementia set in that he forgot to be a hard-ass and allowed himself to laugh and cry.

Her brother was a worrier. Adam had appointed himself caretaker when they’d moved to Texas and still felt responsible for her, though he’d lightened up considerably since he’d let Lizzie into his heart.

And then there had been Todd. Todd was funny, liked to tease—he had that in common with Marcus, but after Todd came home from Afghanistan, he’d become an angry, lost soul, and Emma had been unable to reach him. Marcus, for all that he’d suffered and experienced, seemed to really enjoy life.

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