The Lies Uncovered Trilogy (Books 4, 5, and 6 of The Dancing Moon Ranch Series) Read Online Free PDF

no… I don't want to talk about this with you… because you'll start sermonizing… like you always do… instead of listening. Your mother listens."
    "You don't want to go to my mother's because she listens," Rick said, "you want to go because she won't stop you from doing whatever you want to do to screw up your life."
    Sophie propped her hands on her hips, and Rick wondered for a moment if the towel might come loose and drop off. He was tempted to throw her clothes at her and tell her to go back in the bathroom and get dressed and come out when she was decent, but what she'd worn to the party was anything but decent.
    Staring daggers at him, Sophie said, still in slow, measured beats, "Your problem is you just don't like your mother because she left your father."
    "What's going on with you right now is not about my mother and father, so let's just stick to that," Rick said.
    "What's going on with me is that for the first time in my life I'm finally free of restrictions that would choke a horse, and I'll thank you to leave me alone to enjoy it. Now, either drive me to your mother's place, or I'll walk."
    A part of the woman who was facing Rick now was the Sophie he'd known for years, the one who held up the hoop for him to jump through, demanding he drive her to his mother's place. The woman he'd seen draped in a guy's lap with his hands all over her, and who was confronting him now wearing only a towel, he didn’t know. "I guess you'd better start walking then," he said, deciding he'd had enough hoop jumping. "You can stay in the cabin tonight and tomorrow I'll take you to get your car. You'll be staying at the ranch from now on."
    The look on Sophie's face changed then, first to surprise that he was no longer her puppet, then to a subtle look of seduction. "If I stay, I'll expect you to stay with me," she said. "I told you I planned to get screwed and you took me away before it happened so you owe me."
    Her words were more controlled, but Rick knew she still had enough booze and pot in her to shed her inhibitions. "You're not getting screwed by me or anyone else tonight," he clipped.
    Her hand toying with the towel where it tucked into itself, she said, in a cynical voice, "Do you have some kind of a sexual hang-up, Rick? Has Mommy Dearest and her involvement with men made you so inhibited you can't get it up."
    Rick held her challenging gaze. This wasn't the woman he'd grown to love over the years. It was as if a stranger had invaded Sophie's body. "When did you start talking like this?" he asked.
    "I do have a vocabulary," Sophie replied. "I'm just learning to put the words together differently. Now, I'm getting cold, so either screw me or leave."
    Eyeing her with disgust, Rick said, "I'll be back in the morning to take you to get your car. Be dressed when I come." He left abruptly, hearing her laughing as he shut the door.
    ***
    While immersed in warm water, Sophie gazed around the darkened interior of the cavern where a hot spring bubbled up into a rock pool. When she awakened at dawn with a splitting headache and a queasy stomach, and with only a dim recollection of the party the night before, she knew she had to be somewhere other than the cabin. She wasn't sure she could face Rick again. Ever. Although the party was a blur, what happened after the shower was clear, but confusing. She couldn't explain her behavior with Rick. She still couldn't believe she'd challenged his virility and all but demanded he have sex with her. So the only place she could think to go was Whispering Springs, where she could listen to the eerie sounds sifting through the mountain and try to make sense of everything that had happened over the past two days.
    She glanced at the pile of clothes she'd worn to the party. When wearing them she'd felt daring and defiant, and when Buzz came for her he looked her up and down, and she smiled seductively, like she knew he was coming onto her but didn't care. That much she remembered. But once at