Riding the Line

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Author: Kate Pearce
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licked her lips and considered him. How far could she push him? How far before he lost his temper and revealed his true colors?
    ‘So it doesn’t bother you then, having a girl’s name?’
    A muscle twitched in his cheek. ‘Nope, not at all.’
    ‘Are you sure about that?’
    She resumed walking, deliberately brushed against him as she sashayed past. His hand fastened around her elbow and drew her close into his side.
    ‘Robyn’s not exactly a girl’s name either, is it?’
    She sniffed. ‘It is so, especially when spelled with a “y”. You’re just saying that because you’re mad.’
    ‘I’m not mad. I never get mad. Life’s too short.’
    She squinted up at him, wished she’d remembered to put on her sunglasses. ‘You are so full of crap.’
    ‘Because I try to be positive?’
    ‘Because you say all this stupid stuffas if it’s true, as if life really doesn’t suck and that people really can love you for what you are.’ Horrified, she jammed her lips shut before she said anything else.
    He gazed down at her, his mouth a hard line. ‘So just because you’re a negative person, I’m not allowed to be happy, right?’
    She gritted her teeth. ‘You can be as happy as you like, just keep it to yourself, OK?’
    He released her arm and stepped back; his annoying smile reappeared. ‘Man, you’re crabby in the mornings.’
    ‘I’m crabby, period. Now show me where the food is or I’ll scream.’
    He pointed down Main Street to a small shopfront with tables set outside. ‘Olly’s Diner, ma’am, be my guest.’
    She stomped across the road inhaling the heavenly scent of fresh-roasted coffee, pancakes and maple syrup. For the first time in weeks, she actually felt hungry. She’d spent so many years trying different combinations of diets and pills to keep her thin and relaxed and energetic and sexy and . . . somewhere along the way, she’d lost her appetite for real food.
    She squeezed into the cracked red leatherette seat and slid along until she reached the window. Dakota sat opposite her and reached for the menu, obscuring his face from view. She studied the lines of text but she already knew what she was going to have.
    ‘How’re you folks doing today?’
    The plump middle-aged waitress wore a pink nylon check dress and lace apron. Her grey hair was pulled back into an untidy bun at the base of her neck.
    ‘Just fine, ma’am. How about yourself?’
    Robyn smirked behind her menu. Trust the cowboy to come up with the correct response. She wasn’t used to talking to wait staff. In her more bratty days she’d had it written into her contract that no one apart from her family and the director was allowed to speak to her, let alone make eye contact.
    ‘I’m doing just fine. Now what can I get you?’
    Dakota turned to Robyn and she hastily concealed her amusement. Somehow she sensed that he wouldn’t take kindly to her laughing at the older woman. She cleared her throat.
    ‘I’ll have decaf coffee and pancakes with maple syrup.’ Dakota raised his eyebrows and she found herself muttering, ‘Please.’
    ‘And I’ll have coffee and the big breakfast, please, ma’am.’
    The waitress scribbled the order down on her pad and beamed at Dakota. ‘And how do you like your eggs, honey?’
    ‘Over easy, please.’
    ‘Not like your women, then,’ Robyn said as the waitress turned away.
    Dakota studied her intently. ‘You sure know how to hold a grudge, don’t you?’
    ‘You turned me down. You deserve everything you get.’ She looked out of the window to avoid his gaze.
    ‘I lost my taste for over easy on the rodeo circuit.’
    His flat tone roused her interest but she refused to turn around and look at him. Instead she traced patterns with her fingertip in the condensation on the glass.
    ‘Women were all over you? You poor, poor man.’ Her sarcasm earned her nothing more than a quiet chuckle.
    ‘Actually, you’re right. It did become a pain in the ass. They didn’t really want
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