The Rodeo Cowboy's Baby by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781949068658
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2018-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

“Honey, I just read your column.” Janice Wakowski’s gaze lasered on Evie from across her desk. She did not look happy.

Evie drew in a deep breath. The column had been tough to write. How to encapsulate all the excitement of the rodeo and the enlightenment she’d gotten from her fling with Flynn without including any details. She’d made a conscious decision not to mention him. Or their three-day affair.

Their time together had been precious, sweet and sexy and so life-affirming. The man was a ride and no mistake. But she couldn’t afford to read too much into it, to cling to something that wasn’t real, because her heart seemed to be doing that already.

Not going into too much detail had been the obvious solution.

But still she thought she’d nailed everything else in the piece, in fact she’d actually had fun—albeit, desperately bittersweet fun—writing about the local color, the feeling of small-town camaraderie. Her attitude to small towns had certainly changed over this monumental weekend. Marietta had a magic about it. Yes, people got involved in other people’s business—the Twitter storm surrounding one of the bull riders and a single mum, which had been started by the town gossip according to Charlie, being a case in point. But the nosiness felt more friendly than frosty, more encouraging than judgmental. And she’d tried to put that feeling of small-town unity into the column, too.

So why was Janice all squinty-eyed? And could she even be bothered to care?

All she wanted to do now was go home and sleep for a week. The problem with having a wild fling with a cowboy which you got way too invested in was that it was exhausting. She hadn’t had a full night’s sleep in three days. Even her first night in Montana had been disturbed by dreams of Flynn O’Connell. And the reality had turned out to be even more tiring. The man had been insatiable. But then so had she.

As she’d banged out the column on her laptop on the flight home, Evie had already felt drained. The fun Evie, the carefree Evie, the reckless Evie she’d discovered over the weekend, and who had started to fade as soon as she’d said her final goodbye to Flynn the night before, had disappeared completely by the time she’d walked through the arrival gates at LaGuardia and grabbed a cab for the twenty-minute journey to The Brooklyn Voice’s offices in Red Hook.

Unfortunately, as soon as fun Evie had disappeared, the old Evie had returned.

That would be sad, vulnerable, uptight, pathetic Evie.

Had some of that Evie seeped back into her writing without her realizing it? She was already feeling fragile as the memory of Flynn—standing in the yard frowning at her as she waved goodbye—kept repeating over and over in her head.

It was now four o’clock and the paper was due to be put to bed in less than an hour. She’d hoped to slip off home, drink a whole bottle of wine, have a hot bath

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