Texas Two-Step: Cowboy Shuffle Read Online Free PDF

is too short to do anything else. I’ve been known to have a few too many at a party when I kick back, but I’m never irresponsible about it. I’ve quit the chewing tobacco habit but I’ll admit I fall off the wagon once or twice a year—usually when I’m hunting with my best friend.
    There are certain skills I’ve been told by the ladies that I possess which I will leave to your imagination because this is way too soon in our online correspondence to be talking about THAT. Just be assured, there have never been any complaints.
    Anyway, it would be nice to talk to you by email, if you'd like. I don’t love being on the computer and I usually don’t turn it on too often, but I will now because I do hope to hear back from you soon.
    By the way, I agree. I think you should definitely NOT date any doctors or any strange cowboys, for that matter.
    Buddy
    Ellen read the message twice through before sitting back. Her coffee sat cooling and untouched next to the computer. Could it be this Buddy was a genuine, honest, nice guy?
    He didn’t try to make himself sound perfect. He admitted his faults and he did seem both smart and funny.
    For the first time since joining this site, Ellen felt a flutter. She clicked over to his profile. No picture. Dammit. That must be it. He was a troll. Nice. Sweet. Honest. Funny…and too hideous to post a picture.
    She sighed. She was being a shallow bitch. Looks didn’t matter all that much. Right? She should get to know him. Then, if they seemed to hit it off, maybe she could ask him for a picture. No, that would look bad, like she didn’t want to meet him unless he met her approval.
    This online stuff sucked. Then again, live dating wasn’t so great either. How often had men she dated screwed her over? Or turned out to be assholes once you got to know them better?
    That decided it. She’d respond to Buddy and see if there was any cyber chemistry between them. Might as well. What did she have to lose?
    Hi Buddy,
    It was nice to hear from you. I’ll admit it, you did make me smile. Say hi to your grandfather and his collie for me. Both sound very nice.
    So you like horses. I’m a competitive barrel racer and my horse’s name is Bucky. I live in an apartment right now, so I have to board him, but one day my dream is to own or rent a house with a barn, or at least a run-in shed on the property so I can keep him at my own place. Do you ride?
    I see you’re local. Do you ever get to the rodeo? Wouldn’t it be funny if we had both been there at the same time? Maybe we’ve passed each other!
    Anyway, I hope you do remember to turn on your computer and get this message.
    G.G.
    Ellen frowned at the screen. What a bunch of boring crap. Why would any man want to date her after that message? But what else could she write? Do you have big muscles because I love to grab them during sex and I haven’t had sex in forever and I’m ready to burst?
    Nope, that would probably send the wrong message, true though it was.
    There was always the alternative. You sound perfect since my car is a piece of crap and I could really use a boyfriend who can fix it.
    Also true but not so enticing. Might as well go with boring. She hit send and let out a loud breath. Dating sucked, no matter how you went about it. Yet her brother and Maryann had found each other. They had been acting all gooey-eyed and in love like two days after they met. Love at first sight. That had to be it. They were meant for each other and fate had thrown them together from a continent away.
    So what was she supposed to do? Wait around and trust fate to throw her into the path of her soul mate? If that was the case, it had better hurry up because she was tired of waiting. And she didn’t have too much more time to wait around for a reply from her new online friend either. She had to grab something to eat before starting her shift at the hospital that afternoon.
    The ringing of her cell phone in her purse had her jumping up. She frowned at