Reunited with Her Cowboy by Genevieve Turner

Author:Genevieve Turner [Turner, Genevieve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penny Bright Publishing, LLC

Chapter 11

The alarm went off too damn early, but Josh forced himself awake anyway.

As he reached across Leonora to shut it off, she made a noise thick with sleep and shifted under his arm. Once he hit the snooze button, he kept his arm around her. She was warm and soft and smelled like a contented night’s sleep.

After a time she blinked awake, her gaze focusing on him. “How long do we have?”

“Are you asking for just five more minutes?”

A corner of her mouth tipped up. “I’m not late for stuff anymore.”

“Me neither. How’s your farmers’ market project going?”

“I hit a snag with the insurance yesterday—there’s a company that will manage the stall rental and all the other details, but their insurance won’t cover everything. So I’ve got to see how much the supplemental insurance will cost us. And try to get the management company to include that as part of what they’re paying us to use the parking lot.”

He ran his fingers down her arm as she went through all that. She was damn sexy when she went into planner mode. “You’ll sort it all out, I’m sure.”

“Oh, I will.” She gave him a grin that was half-smug, half-saucy. “That’s what they’re paying me for.”

“Do you like it?”

She bit her lip. “I do. I really do. You know… when we were planning to go back to school? Before? I think it would have stuck that time. I think we might have been ready for it.”

His skin flushed icy, then hot. “You remember that?”

“Yeah. And I remember we didn’t tell anyone. We wanted it to be a surprise.”

There was no censure in her voice, but the moment lay heavy between them. If only…

But what had happened, happened. They couldn’t change the past; they could only face the future.

“What do we do now?” he asked.

“We can’t keep hiding. So we probably can’t keep meeting.”

That was the last thing he wanted to hear. He pushed himself onto one elbow. “So we wait? I don’t want to wait for you. Not any longer.”

He knew he sounded like his old self—impulsive, selfish—but he meant it. She was the one person who didn’t expect him to fail and didn’t expect him to be perfect. Letting go of her—again—wasn’t something he was prepared to do.

She remained calm in the face of his temper. “We could tell them.”

Suddenly he craved a cigarette. Tell them—when had that ever worked? “It’ll never work.”

Her calmness shattered then, tears filling her eyes. “You’re right. I tell them things all the time, and they never listen. Never.”

Fuck. He should have known better instead of wallowing in his own bitterness. He gathered her in his arms. “Hey. Just because you need help sometimes doesn’t mean you can’t be independent. Hell, you already are independent.”

Although tears brimmed in them, her eyes were clear as they held his. “And just because you screwed up before—spectacularly, yes—doesn’t mean you’re always going to be a failure.”

He couldn’t speak for long moments. And when his breath came back under his control, when he found the words again… the alarm went off.

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