Most Obnoxious Cowboy by J. S. Cooper

Author:J. S. Cooper [Cooper, J. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Sixteen

Arya

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I frowned at her. “I’m not asking you to be my fake girlfriend. I’m asking you to be my fake fiancée.”

“That’s even worse. How can you even suggest such a thing?”

“Why is it worse?”

“Because that’s lying to your parents.”

“Look, I’m not going to marry you. I’m not going to have children with you. I’m not going to completely lead my mother on. However, I do want…” He paused and looked at me for a few seconds, and I looked back at him. His lips twitched slightly, and my eyes narrowed.

“What is it?”

“You don’t want to know.”

“I do want to know. That’s why I asked.”

“Well, are you even considering my suggestion?”

“No,” I said and then paused. “Well, maybe.”

“Really?” His eyes lit up.

“Why do you sound so surprised? If you thought I wouldn’t be interested, then why even suggest it in the first place?”

“Because I was hopeful. I wasn’t sure if I had reason to hope, though.”

“You don’t have reason to hope. I’m just saying—”

“No, no. You can’t take it back now, Arya. You’re interested.”

“So maybe I am. So what were you going to say?”

“I was going to say that I think that we could both enjoy…” He paused again and his lips twitched.

“Okay, you know what? I don’t think I want you to finish that sentence.” I knew exactly what he was thinking. I mean it wasn’t hard to figure out, seeing as we were lying in his bed and I was already mostly naked.

“What? You’re the one…”

“I think I know how that’s going to end.”

“How do you think it’s going to end?”

“I think that you’re going to ask me…” I shook my head. “Anyway, I should go back to my bedroom now.”

“Wait.” He grabbed my hand. “Are you sure that’s what you want to do?”

“I don’t know anything anymore.” I shook my head. “I feel like ever since I’ve been on Horseshoe Ranch that people are just…”

“They’re just what?”

“People are just confusing me.”

“What people are confusing you, Arya?”

“You. You’re confusing me, okay?”

“Oh, really? In what way am I confusing you?”

“You know in what way you’re confusing me. You flirt with me. You’re angry with me. You try to control me.”

“I’m not trying to control you.”

“Well, it feels like you’re trying to control what sort of job I have.”

“I’m not trying to control what sort of job you have. I just don’t think it’s a good idea for you to live on top of a bar. Who’s going to look after Eloise when you’re working?”

“I already told you that your mom said she would help me. And Olivia and Sadie and—”

“Come on now, Arya. So they’re going to drive to your place in the middle of the night to go and look after Eloise and then go back home? Is that safe?”

I pressed my lips together. He had a point. It was something that I’d thought about as well, but I hadn’t wanted to dwell on it because I knew that that arrangement couldn’t last forever. But I

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