The Curvy Astronomer and the Cowboy (He Wanted Me Pregnant!) by Victoria Wessex

Author:Victoria Wessex [Wessex, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: comedy, romance, western, alpha male, cowboy, bbw
Publisher: Scorching Press
Published: 2014-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Ten O’ clock.

I’d spent all day going over it and over it in my mind. First, I’d been unsure if he liked me. Then, after the bath, I’d been pretty sure he had, but I’d been worried he’d just use me and leave me. Now, I knew he was serious...and it was his very seriousness that was scaring me off. Babies? Why would he want me for that? Shouldn’t he want some local woman with aprons and recipe books and a sensible haircut? I was independent and restless and--

I hesitated. Was I independent? Or was I just lonely? Was I restless, or just running?

A week ago, the idea of falling for someone like this would have seemed crazy. When we’d met, we’d seemed like opposites. Maybe we were opposites. But he was so big and solid and real, next to my flightiness and my tendency to live inside my own head, that maybe that was a good thing. No one had ever made me feel like he had. Just being around him, even without us ever kissing, I felt safe and warm...and permanently hot as hell.

And yet the thought of admitting all that, of trusting a man again, filled me with a dread that made my stomach lurch. Rick had wanted me to settle down with him as well. And, once I was good and relaxed, once I’d made a cosy little nest--

I was seeing it all over again. His car, pulling into her driveway. My slow walk up the stairs to her bedroom….

What if Troy turned out to be like that? What if, once the novelty wore off--

So the whole day, I brooded. When night finally fell and I started working, I was no closer to a decision. And now it was ten O’clock, an hour past when I’d said I’d be finished.

I was huddled over the telescope, trying to adjust knobs through two pairs of gloves. Troy was alternating between watching me through the window and coming out to pace around.

“You’re not helping,” I said quietly when he came out to stand over me.

“Have you looked behind you? Have you seen the size of those clouds?”

“No,” I said levelly. “Because I’m trying to get the right exposure for the nebula right now. Why don’t you tell me?”

“Those clouds are going to dump a whole state’s worth of snow on our little corner of Wyoming any minute,” he said. “They’re right overhead.”

I glanced up sarcastically at the clear sky...only to find it wasn’t clear anymore. The area ahead of me, where the telescope was pointing, was still beautifully clear--one of the clearest nights I’d ever seen, in fact. But he was right: the clouds had swept in right overhead while I’d been gazing at the stars.

“A little snow won’t hurt us,” I said. “It’ll take time to build up on the roads. We’ve got hours before they’re blocked.”

Troy let out a groan of frustration. “Is that what you thought? That it doesn’t matter until it’s deep? Emily, this is the country.

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