True Blue Cowboy by Debra Holt

Author:Debra Holt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781951190934
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2019-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The bed was huge and seemed to have grown since the first time she saw it. Josie changed quickly into a soft pink flannel gown and swiftly slid under the covers, pulling them up under her chin, turning onto her side, facing away from the empty pillows beside her. The lights were off, and she was profoundly glad for the darkness.

Her cheeks felt on fire still as she tried to block the scene from the dining room from her thoughts. What had come over her? She responded so eagerly when Chance kissed her. She had participated in it from beginning to the abrupt end. It would be ridiculous to believe otherwise. She was already in a precarious spot where Chance was concerned. Because her heart was fully involved, it made her vulnerable, and that was a feeling that frightened her. Her ears were tuned in to every sound, real and imagined, in the darkened room and the hall beyond.

A half hour later, there was a roll of thunder in the distance beyond the windows. In a few minutes, light raindrops could be heard on the metal roof overhead. The sound worked to soothe her nerves, until her eyelids became too heavy to remain open. Josie slept soundly, and she was not aware when Chance entered the room an hour later, moving silently across the bedroom, stopping to adjust the covers over her shoulder, before he turned and stepped away.

*

It was a while later that Chance entered the bedroom. Part of him hoped to find an eager bride waiting in their bed for him. What he found was an exhausted Josie fast asleep, curled on her side, her breathing slow and deep. He approached the bed with soft footsteps and bent to adjust the covers higher on her shoulder. With the softest of touches, he placed a light kiss on her forehead and then left the room.

The night air was needed to clear his mind and took a deep breath of it as he stepped outside. Not for the first time in the last couple of weeks, Chance knew what it was to second-guess himself. He had it planned out…or so he thought. It wasn’t going to be easy, he realized that. But he might have underestimated his self-control and patience level in some recent situations.

He was a married man. Josie was his wife. And it was their wedding day. He had tried his best to make it memorable for her. Now, he was sitting on the front porch, a full moon rising in the east after the storm clouds had dissipated. A romantic setting and he was alone. His bride was upstairs in their new big bed, having fallen asleep…upset with him. He tried not to move too fast…lose the ground they had gained in their relationship. Such as it was.

If his brother hadn’t shown up when he did, things might have been a lot better. But then, maybe it had worked out in his favor. He had taken a gamble with allowing Dev to take Josie out to dinner.

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