Texas Wishes by Kristina Knight

Author:Kristina Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, contemporary
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Mat stretched, coming slowly awake as brilliant morning sunlight filled his bedroom. His arm hung over one side of the bed with his hand resting atop the pillow displaced to the floor. His neck hurt when he turned away from the bright morning sun. Served him right for sleeping like a co-ed after a bender. He rose to his elbows, looking out at the rolling Texas countryside and rolled his neck left and right.

He was on the wrong side of the bed. He never slept on this side.

Vanessa. It all came back to him in a rush: driving her to the dance, feeling protective of her, wanting to dance with her. Barely speaking once they arrived at his home. No pillow talk before or after. Just sex.

Mind-blowing, unsurprisingly satisfying sex.

Twice. Once in this bed. Once in his shower.

He reached across the bed but his hand met only mattress. Mat flipped over.

Alone. No sound coming from the bathroom. No shoes or dress on the floor. He glanced at the clock. Just after seven on a Sunday morning.

Alone. Damn it, was this deflated, empty feeling the reason Vanessa had such a hard time letting go of their night in the hayloft? He’d been the one to leave early that time, to put a little space between them. And he’d still wound up right back in bed with her because he couldn’t forget that night, either.

Mat got up, grabbed jeans and a tee from his dresser and slammed his hat down on his head. Tit for tat was fine, but he would not still be thinking of Vanessa in four months’ time. He’d exorcise her memory one way or another. That way was work. Saddle a horse and get lost on the Double Diamond for a day or two. There were fences that needed fixing, a salt lick to check. He needn’t hang around waiting for another of Vanessa’s we-should-just-be-friends talks. Not this time.

• • •

Vanessa made it to her room without seeing anyone in her family. Not surprising since it was barely six in the morning. Kathleen and Jackson would still be sleeping after the dance last night. Grandfather and Nathaniel, however — maybe it was dumb luck that led her back to the house and to her room without anyone noticing she hadn’t spent the night there.

Why the thought bothered her at the age of twenty-six she had no idea. It wasn’t as if she had a curfew. Even when she had a curfew, breaking it was the norm not the anomaly.

She slipped into the en suite bath, shucked her clothes and turned the water as hot as she could stand it. What had she been thinking? Spending an evening talking to Mat was one thing, sleeping with him again — and without telling him about the baby — was a whole different ball game. One she didn’t want to play in. It was deceitful.

The kind of thing she’d have thought nothing of just a few short weeks ago.

Maybe she wasn’t so different after all.

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