Ride Me Cowboy #2 (The Cowboy Romance Series - Book #2) Read Online Free PDF

so…Bob was right, it wasn’t my
father’s decision to make.

 
    CHAPTER
SEVEN
    LEXI
    I watched Mom mix the powder with the water and I
heard her talking, but I wasn’t really processing what she was saying. The
little calves were cute, but I would have preferred seeing them on the
screensaver on my computer over real life. This barn
smelled like wet hay and sweaty horses and to make matters worse, it reminded
me of the barn where Mark and I had spent the night. No matter what I did, I
couldn’t stop thinking about him.
    Just about the time I had that thought, he came into
the barn. I tried not to look at him, but God it was hard. If I wasn’t supposed
to be so attracted to him, he shouldn’t be so damned good looking. Those blue
eyes, the way the black hair curls up around the edges of that old hat he wears,
the way his hard muscle ripples underneath his shirt…Damn, I salivate just thinking about it and here he is again, in the flesh. I acted like what
Mom was telling me was the most interesting thing in the world until she
noticed him. Still, when they had their little friendly exchange, I tried to
act removed from it, but I saw the look on Mom’s face. She was getting the
feeling something was going on. Mark must have noticed it, too. We exchanged
“Good mornings” and I focused back on Mom and he went to get his horse. I kept
him in my peripheral vision until he finally left the barn. It just didn’t seem
fair. It was like sitting a steak down in front of a lion and telling him not
to eat it. The more I looked at Mark, the hungrier I got.
    Mark didn’t come back to the house at lunch time and
Rob was gone into town, so Mom and I fixed a sandwich and we ate out on the
back patio. It looked out over the rolling hills where the cattle grazed and
the pens of wild horses were. Mom told me how Mark went every year to a “round
up” in Montana where you were allowed to buy a certain number of wild Mustangs.
She went on about how he loved them and how good he was at taking care of them.
I listened, but I didn’t say anything until she finally said, “ Lexi, did something happen between you and Mark?”
    I tried to look innocent as I said, “No, what do you
mean?”
    “I’ve just noticed that the two of you barely speak
and when you’re in the same room it seems like there’s a lot of tension.” Mom’s
not stupid. I should have known she would pick up on it. Now, what to tell her
about it…
    “No. Nothing happened. I just don’t really know him,
Mom. We don’t have a lot in common.”
    “Hmm, well honey, you might be surprised. I mean
could you have imagined me in a barn feeding calves a year ago?”
    “Not in a million years,” I told her with a smile.
“I’ll try and get to know him better.” I was lying. I already knew him much
better than I should. But it made her feel better and she dropped it.
    “You’re not seeing anyone these days?”
    Nope, that’s why I’m free to have sex in the barn
with my stepbrother. “No, not since Peter.”
    “Was he the accountant?”
    “No, that was Michael. Peter was the cosmetics
company executive.”
    “Oh that’s right. You didn’t like him?”
    I smiled. “I liked him fine, but it was just going
nowhere and we both agreed we were holding each other back.”
    “I bet you’ll miss those make-up deals he used to
get for you. I remember those.”
    I laughed. “Yes, I will miss that. I got to try a
lot of the products before they even came out on the market.”
    The rest of our day went like that, just catching
up. It was nice. I’d missed her and talking to her about what was going on in
my life. I wished that I could talk to her about Mark. I’m sure that she would
have some wise words for me…if it was about anyone
other than her stepson.
    I made it through another day somehow, following Mom
around and when the duties got too smelly or dirty for me, finding something to
do in the house. I spent a lot of time on Facebook and Instagram…I