What the Cowboy Wants for Christmas by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates [Yates, Maisey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2018-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

When Noah woke up, the room was cold. He’d let the fire die overnight, and he’d clearly forgotten to turn on the space heater in the small room. Mostly because he’d been distracted. By Meg.

Meg, whose bare bottom was nestled up against his hardness. Meg, who was breathing steadily and deeply as she slept up against him. In his bed.

Meg. Finally.

He moved his hand over her curves, down to her hip, and she stirred beneath his touch.

“Noah?” she asked sleepily.

And the fact that it was his name she had said, that she wasn’t confused even for a moment about who she was with, did something to him. Pride was the least of his concerns, really. But even he didn’t want to believe she was thinking about being with Charlie while she was here with him.

Second choice was one thing. The only available guy to use while she fantasized about someone else was another.

“Yeah,” he said, dropping a kiss onto her lips.

“I guess I fell asleep,” she said.

“Yeah,” he responded. “Me too.”

She turned over so that she was facing him, and he could barely make out her glittering eyes in the darkness. “Was I okay?”

He huffed out a laugh. “It’s a miracle the top of my head didn’t blow off.”

“Is that a compliment?”

“Yes, it was a very crass compliment, which unfortunately is all I’m capable of.”

She laughed, then snuggled more deeply against him. “That’s not true.”

“Sure it is. You were supposed to lose your virginity in some high-rise apartment. Not in this place.”

“I’m not sorry,” she said. “I’m not sorry that I’m here. I’m not sorry that it’s you. You talk yourself down, Noah, but you’re the one who brought me cookies.”

He wasn’t even going to pretend he didn’t remember that, even though he probably should. Even though discretion was the better part of making sure you didn’t get your guts ripped out. He didn’t have much discretion with Meg. At least, not anymore. He had spent so many years keeping it all locked up; now that he had set it free, it was all but impossible to put it back in the cage.

“They were just cookies,” he said.

“Noah, I was the little girl that no one paid attention to. And once I was taken from my parents, I was the little girl that bounced from place to place. And even though there were good homes in between those times when I went back to my mom and dad, it was all very temporary. And there didn’t ever seem to be a point in anyone getting to know me, because they were only going to have to give me away. And I know that some of that came from me. Some of it was me holding myself back because I knew I was going to lose the nice people who had taken me in, that I was going to go back to that house where no one looked in my direction, so why should I try? Why should I try to connect with anyone?”

“You never acted hard because of it,” he said.

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