The Cowgirl's Man. Ruth Dale Jean

Читать онлайн.
Название The Cowgirl's Man
Автор произведения Ruth Dale Jean
Жанр Современные любовные романы
Серия
Издательство Современные любовные романы
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9781474017855



Скачать книгу

toward the two men sitting on the back edge of the bandstand, talking quietly.

      “That’s just it.” Dani looked pained. “I’m afraid…she won’t be coming.”

      Clay raised his brows. “Because…?”

      “Because…” Dani looked at Toni who looked at Rosie who looked distressed.

      Finally the mayor did her reluctant duty. “Niki says she doesn’t want to be in the contest,” she admitted faintly.

      “You’re kidding.”

      “I wish. She didn’t actually even enter—somebody else did it without checking with her first,” Rosie explained uneasily. “She wasn’t real happy when we surprised her with the news at our big Fourth of July bash but we were kinda hopin’ she’d change her mind.”

      “Being a finalist in a big national contest isn’t exactly an insult,” he pointed out.

      “We all told her that,” Toni said. “We want her to do it—everybody in town wants her to do it.” The other two nodded agreement. “It’s just that she’s stubborn. The more we push her, the harder she digs in her heels. Now we’re at the point where I don’t think anything could change her mind.”

      Clay smiled. “Well,” he drawled, “maybe I can just come up with a way if I think on it real hard….”

      THE FRONT DOOR to the Sorry Bastard flew open and in walked the sexiest man Niki Keene had ever seen in the flesh. He was followed by half—the younger half—of the males in this part of Texas. Two photographers trailed along behind.

      Laughing, talking, the men pulled together several of the tables and hauled up chairs with much scraping of chair legs. Dylan Sawyer thumped a fist on the tabletop and shouted, “Beer all around, Niki! We got us a celebrity here we’re tryin’ to impress…my buddy Clay Russell.”

      “Coming right up, Dylan.” Being careful to avoid looking at the “celebrity,” she hurried to the bar where Cleavon was already drawing beer into frosty mugs.

      This might be harder than she’d expected. She’d been unable to stop thinking about Clay Russell after only one very low-key glimpse of him. Now he was back full force, confident and charismatic as if he’d just been fooling the last time.

      He had been fooling, she realized, picking up the tray of beers. He’d been incognito, undercover—spying on her, in fact.

      She distributed the beers, smiling and friendly while trying to keep her gaze averted from his. She didn’t want anything to do with this man. He was a threat to her…boring existence, if her sisters were to be believed.

      But when push came to shove, she just couldn’t carry it off. Placing a cold mug of beer before him, she slowly raised her gaze until it met his amused one. “Goodness me,” she said in her best Texas-belle accent, “I sure never expected to see you again, Mr. Russell. The last time you dropped in, you said there was nothing around here you really wanted.”

      Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.

      Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес».

      Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес.

      Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEBLAEsAAD/4RzHRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgABwESAAMAAAABAAEAAAEaAAUA AAABAAAAYgEbAAUAAAABAAAAagEoAAMAAAABAAIAAAExAAIAAAAcAAAAcgEyAAIAAAAUAAAAjodp AAQAAAABAAAApAAAANAALcbAAAAnEAAtxsAAACcQQWRvYmUgUGhvdG9zaG9wIENTMiBXaW5kb3dz ADIwMTQ6MTA6MjAgMDg6Mjk6MTAAAAAAA6ABAAMAAAABAAEAAKACAAQAAAABAAAG4KADAAQAAAAB AAAKAAAAAAAAAAAGAQMAAwAAAAEABgAAARoABQAAAAEAAAEeARsABQAAAAEAAAEmASgAAwAAAAEA AgAAAgEABAAAAAEAAAEuAgIABAAAAAEAABuRAAAAAAAAAEgAAAABAAAASAAAAAH/2P/gABBKRklG AAECAABIAEgAAP/tAAxBZG9iZV9DTQAB/+4ADkFkb2JlAGSAAAAAAf/bAIQADAgICAkIDAkJDBEL CgsRFQ8MDA8VGBMTFRMTGBEMDAwMDAwRDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAENCwsN Dg0QDg4QFA4ODhQUDg4ODhQRDAwMDAwREQwMDAwMDBEMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwM DAwM/8AAEQgAoABuAwEiAAIRAQMRAf/dAAQAB//EAT8AAAEFAQEBAQEBAAAAAAAAAAMAAQIEBQYH CAkKCwEAAQUBAQEBAQEAAAAAAAAAAQACAwQFBgcICQoLEAABBAEDAgQCBQcGCAUDDDMBAAIRAwQh EjEFQVFhEyJxgTIGFJGhsUIjJBVSwWIzNHKC0UMHJZJT8OHxY3M1FqKygyZEk1RkRcKjdDYX0lXi ZfKzhMPTdePzRieUpIW0lcTU5PSltcXV5fVWZnaGlqa2xtbm9jdHV2d3h5ent8fX5/cRAAICAQIE BAMEBQYHBwYFNQEAAhEDITESBEFRYXEiEwUygZEUobFCI8FS0fAzJGLhcoKSQ1MVY3M08SUGFqKy gwcmNcLSRJNUoxdkRVU2dGXi8rOEw9N14/NGlKSFtJXE1OT0pbXF1eX1VmZ2hpamtsbW5vYnN0dX Z3eHl6e3x//aAAwDAQACEQMRAD8AwaXPfOysGCOfBEcXMaQ5kEmfaYKlQ1rS5wP0gB/miHOV/O6T WL6WssbSS0tcbgYdt2luW32tb6GQ2z9Dsst/m1RAuz+jGr+r0hmIcECSZ5OLhoen0eqX/Nc18l3p jdOhknx+76Ki5p+1BgJcY+k7Xsrjelu91hvqO0AiudXGHzW33/SY6vY7/ja0b9lk2vtZeyx1bYDW AunXa5o9x97Wfpf+JQ8uydDvp6h/ixcrJbttOpMgFQeCGNJ3a8Tx/ZWpbRTt9RuRXdBLQxgkkzqT r7fYNzH/AEPf/pFVLLDeHeoDWwyAe39lISrQ9ESxg2QT6jpp+KJ7WBp3vLS4zGhdP7riCoD3UHQA tABESYn6W5WqsOx5vyGN9TFog2vHuaz1CQz1P3N796i0VNBcxwdXZr7YMzO3bH0v3K60uL+KRjsn YbxOv/Oau07NYA3Qf3hHknfXFOu2N0z3+bZWtl/V+/CzBh5VlNDmVC++wu3V1N2yftLqmPdXZv2V M/R/prrKfQ/nEn/V/qAupxrqvQOS02F9pEMa1vrXPvg/obMek77qP55O17Hfsxfq6J4o6xserePg 47Nm4Dx7ztg/EqQAPqQTG0kTqdD+creR05+DkNx8mut1jmNsJY/eAHj1GNc32uru2bbXU/Trp9Ox A9MM/nYDXcAc6T3RO+xRGiAQYkG9R080bf5kg6Tqp1u9th0n09vl9KsJy5vpGHQI48pSpcPTu1/N 4jvvq/NQtcRsL6P/0ME5LQ8FrYazlpj+Cm/NedodwGjaCRAb2aNFRL7DG4DU7Z+CdxyK9m4QXsa9 nH0T9BypjHfS3clzYh80qvUaOni2Y1t9NeU6xlNgMjFaLL3P/wABRTW72/p3/ov6/wDnrfzsDGwq 329KxacoV2CllmW999ry5zsU20YlbWYfpMza349Hq1WvyLWPsrq9P0fV57p78vFrf1N23dTW84jR E/aHObi02v8AZ9HGbZdls/4XHqRMTqH1jzMjp2HhNr9bErFOK2NHOYyxleRb6jv56mt730f4Oi79 NVXvtsThjAjqBbFk53imDHJLhrUH0xP+CHoLei13ZbKMjqNtwqvtx2NqoAY1tFX2nPtppr9np05O zG/QV/zv6L9Jd/N0cTpuJX0/7X1V5cx++0V1l1R9ANsox2NfVvb9rzc7+j+/0vQxci79PRW9Y+Hm 5tbHtst9FtdDsWuplRs3VvsORbU73VV7fX/SP9a39Y/m7n2Y/q02Gu/bfVWZPUGt24uB6ZFT7HO9 NsDGx9g/m7LvTZ+nt2V7/wBKiYDfhF+Pq/NaOaF8BzHg68A9r0/ugY4x+Z267GMowcCwNwunWUN6 hnUsscXZLjX6+22+13q+j6TcXG/RfzttmT9np/Vv0Jf2vg4/UcS3HfjY9v2d9997amiv1rK/Wrxd 1dbvovZi0bWfpqaKfR+035WXYuOac1pgNaIiBMxGo+lKs/Z+q14dea5tfoW2PqYARu3Mh9ntI+j7 kiJ9ABr3UMvLEDiySlpIH09Z/NOX7ztYOfXRUfRxbcl9mczIy3PDh64q9N9X2m1n07PtP2u/0P5p l/o+vc+uv9NB2bnP9Rgx7rKrS0bbA6TS55yMum7aG/purZDa7M7I/wCD+zM/V/SWe25zcbEN7vd7 /aA520+tXb6o2R7vSrfXs/75vUA4Nax1lrgK7Gy4h+06ii/fp/2o9C//AK96aYBOt614dv8ABRLm Y8RIgJWbBJldfNH9Jt5ludmZFmTZjWG6177JZW8QLTu9Nm/2tra7+3/p1n5VGSawXUWisQ42OY5p A/tBWd1IxjTdpYw15DmkuH6Nz2t9/t/nPTf6Pp/9upZO79n54a5zhsY7XdJHr3OZa/d9Gxt