Wild West Fortune by Allison Leigh

Author:Allison Leigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Special Edition
Published: 2017-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

She didn’t intend to oversleep. But once again, when Ariana opened her eyes, she was dismayed to see that it was already the middle of the morning.

Maybe it had something to do with the total lack of sunlight coming into the bedroom since plywood was still secured over the window. When she was sleeping, it was fine. But now that she was awake, it made the otherwise comfortable room feel more like a cell. And a warm one, at that.

She rolled off the bed, scrubbing her face, trying to remember how late it had been before she’d stopped working and turned off the light. But she couldn’t.

She picked up her notepad, feeling a little bleary-eyed as she read a few lines of her notes from the Ybarras.

Then she tossed it down on the nightstand and stuck her head out into the hallway.

She couldn’t hear a sound, so she ventured into the kitchen. The blue-and-white coffeepot was sitting on the unlit stove. It was half-full and barely warm, but she filled a mug from it anyway, then nearly choked on the first sip and hastily leaned over the sink, spitting it back out.

“Good grief.”

She rinsed out her mug with water, then did the same with her mouth. When Jayden had said Nathan’s coffee was the worst, he hadn’t been exaggerating. And obviously, the reason couldn’t be attributed to the cleanliness of the coffeepot, because she’d cleaned it to spotless herself only two days ago. And it had been just as clean when she’d made a pot the day before.

She dumped the coffee into the sink and was refilling it with clean water when she spotted Jayden and Nathan through the window, unloading bales from the same trailer they’d used to haul her car. They were both dressed in jeans and short-sleeved T-shirts, with heavy gloves on their hands. The sheen of sweat on their roped arms was visible. But even from her distance and despite the straw cowboy hats on their heads, she could tell them apart.

She’d been born and bred in Texas. Had been around men in cowboy hats and jeans all of her life. Some wore them as a fashion statement. Some wore them simply because it was who they were.

These two men—whether they’d spent years in military service or not—were definitely in the latter camp.

The shrill ringing of the telephone nearly made her jump out of her skin.

She looked at it and wondered if she ought to answer it. But given Jayden’s attitude the night before, she decided it probably wouldn’t be appreciated.

She left the coffeepot in the sink and turned away from the window. At the moment, the men were entirely occupied. She went down the hall and grabbed up her clean clothes, the toothbrush and comb, then dashed up the stairs. She was going to take a real shower while the taking was good, because she had no idea when the next opportunity would come.

Ten minutes later, after the fastest shower in her personal record, she was once more in the kitchen.

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