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Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country; Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass heels won’t make me Cinderella.
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Kellie Elmore
“
Unearth marvels as you walk the path,
Stand in awe,
Therein is the joy of life.
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Barbara Neville (Cowgirls Just Wanna Have Fun (Spirit Animal, #2))
“
The Cowboy Way
Being a Cowboy is doing the right thing; common
wisdom born of simple virtues and strong ideals.
Above all, it is a strict adherence to honesty
even when it is not in our best interests.
It is having an inherent sense of justice in a
world where the cards are often stacked against us.
We try to hold enough common sense to recognize
the value of a lost cause and the cost of lost values.
Generally speaking, we are quietly reserved in all
things except freedom, fresh air and Saturday night.
We have a keen eye for a
good horse, a good gun,and a good Cowgirl.
Constant to friends, we are more so when
friends need us, less so when they don't.
Familiar with hard work we also know
hard knocks and hard roads.
Often given to tears
when lesser individuals would display indifference;
we are as well given to joy in a few
places others would only find disdain.
We enjoy plain living, not because
we relish doing without, but because we have
discovered the treasures within.
And, finally, we have that elusive emotion called
courage which is, at worst, a badly directed sense of
conceit and, at best, it is the stuff
of which dreams are made. . . .
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Charly Gullett
“
It's hard to have a serious conversation with you when you're wearin' lighted cocks on your head."
AJ defiantly thrust out her chin and the penises bobbled. "We aren't having a conversation. You're give me tough-guy attitude. If you won't acknowledge me in public, you don't have the right to chastise me for anything I do in public or in private. And now you lost the right to do anything to me in private either, bucko."
"Quit bein' so goddamm childish."
Her eyes narrowed to silver slits. "Quit bein' such a goddamn dickhead."
"You're the one with dicks on your head, baby doll."
"Yeah? I can take mine off any old time I please, but you wear your dickhead like a second skin. Or should I say as a second foreskin?
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Lorelei James (Cowgirl Up and Ride (Rough Riders, #3))
“
America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John D. Rockefeller made $1 billion a year, measured in today's money, and paid no income tax. No one did, for income tax did not yet exist in America. Congress tried to introduce an income tax of 2 percent on earnings of $4,000 in 1894, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Income tax wouldn't become a regular part of American Life until 1914. People would never be this rich again.
Spending all this wealth became for many a more or less full-time occupation. A kind of desperate, vulgar edge became attached to almost everything they did. At one New York dinner party, guests found the table heaped with sand and at each place a little gold spade; upon a signal, they were invited to dig in and search for diamonds and other costly glitter buried within. At another party - possibly the most preposterous ever staged - several dozen horses with padded hooves were led into the ballroom of Sherry's, a vast and esteemed eating establishment, and tethered around the tables so that the guests, dressed as cowboys and cowgirls, could enjoy the novel and sublimely pointless pleasure of dining in a New York ballroom on horseback.
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Bill Bryson (At Home: A Short History of Private Life)
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Inside the house, near the hearth, Amiel had built a sort of fire pit with rocks. It was a safer place to cook than most campsites, really, because there was concrete all around, and I longed to be there when he had the fire going, when we could be cowgirl and cowboy and pretend we weren't a few miles from two million people.
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Laura McNeal (Dark Water)
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She'll never be all the way tame, just the way she's made ... sorta like you, I imagine." - Cowboy McKennon Kelly ponders Cowgirl in Training Devon Brooke
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Carly Kade (In The Reins (In The Reins #1))
“
She did not care where he was or how she was going to find him, all she knew is the reward would be worth it...however, alive, kicking and raring to go would be preferable
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Virginia Alison
“
It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping.
Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.
It weeps
for the black people who think like white people.
It weeps
for the Indians who think like settlers.
It weeps
for the children who think like adults.
It weeps
for the free who think like prisoners.
Most of all, it weeps
for the cowgirls who think like cowboys.
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Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues)
“
Any real, beautiful thing in this world shouldn't be tamed or claimed or broken. It should be allowed to be, worked with, not against, appreciated. Don't be afraid of the wild she has left. It makes her special." - Cowboy McKennon Kelly to Cowgirl in Training Devon Brooke.
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Carly Kade (In The Reins (In The Reins #1))
“
Judd met Jericho's gaze levelly. "You always were sufferin' with Cupid's cramp around her." Jericho wanted to pretend he didn't know who Judd was referring to. But it wasn't worth the effort.
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Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
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He allowed himself a glance at her, and this time he worked extra hard not to show any surprise at how beautiful she was. Her big brown eyes were the kind that could suck a fellow in like quicksand and make him forget his next thought.
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Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
“
Jericho rewarded the little girl with a grin-one of his rakish, crooked, heart-stopping grins. One Ivy hadn't seen yet since his return. And now the sight of it unleashed a popping of powder burning in her stomach. His grin was a killer. It was a good thing he didn't show it often. His apologies were killers too.
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Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
“
A little boy, he can play like he's a fireman or a cop--although fewer and fewer are pretending to be cops, thank God--or a deep-sea diver or a quarterback or a spaceman or a rock 'n roll star or a cowboy, or anything else glamorous and exciting (Author's note: What about a novelist, Jellybean?), and although chances are by the time he's in high school he'll get channeled into safer, duller ambitions, the great truth is, he can be any of those things, realize any of those fantasies, if he has the strength, nerve and sincere desire...But little girls? Podner, you know that story as well as me. Give 'em doll babies, tea sets and toy stoves. And if they show a hankering for more bodacious playthings, call 'em tomboy, humor 'em for a few years and then slip 'em the bad news...And the reality is, we got about as much chance of growing up to be cowgirls as Eskimos have got being vegetarians.
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Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues)
“
Well, I heard a rumor that cowboys go commando. Do you think that’s true?”
Isabella from "Cowgirl Up!
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Carolyn Anderson-Jones (Cowgirl Up! (Cowgirl Series #1))
“
When you find the man who listens when you talk, you'll have found a keeper...page 81
”
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Tina Radcliffe (Falling for the Cowgirl (Big Heart Ranch, 2))
“
You know, AJ, every trail has some puddles. That's part of life. But you never know what will be waiting for you if you're brave enough to face your fears. ~page 82
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Tina Radcliffe (Falling for the Cowgirl (Big Heart Ranch, 2))
“
Flynn, you old goat. You stop it right now, do y'hear?
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”
Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
“
No civilized being lived in North Dakota.
”
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Lois Greiman (Counterfeit Cowgirl (Love and Laughter))
“
It was past seven o’clock in the evening and she’d already done a full day of appointments and surgeries.
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Cora Seton (The Cowgirl Ropes a Billionaire (The Cowboys of Chance Creek, #4))
“
Turn the weapons of your enemies so they point at their own hearts.
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Cora Seton (The Cowgirl Ropes a Billionaire (The Cowboys of Chance Creek, #4))
“
You really think I'm aim' to get hitched to a man who has to be forced to the altar at gunpoint?
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”
Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
“
Who wants to be a princess when she can be a cowgirl?
”
”
Kait Ballenger (Cowboy in Wolf's Clothing (Seven Range Shifters, #2))
“
It suddenly occurred to Bella that she was fighting all the time. Fighting her memories. Fighting her feelings of inadequacy. Fighting the thought that she could never atone for her past failures.
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Cora Seton (The Cowgirl Ropes a Billionaire (The Cowboys of Chance Creek, #4))
“
I was disappointed when she suddenly looked away, bashful. It surprised me. Madison occurred to me as so cool and confident. This was her private space though, likely the place she was most herself, no facade, no way she had to be, just a girl with her horses. This was not the kind of place or girl that rodeo boys got to be in or near. Yet here I was, standing toe-to-toe with the goddess in her most private of cowgirl places.
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Carly Kade (Cowboy Away (In The Reins #2))
“
She could almost see the realization clicking in his head, could almost hear his mental berating. She couldn't keep from taunting him. "Scared if you help me, you won't be able to let go when you're done?" He gave a low, scoffing laugh. "Of course not.
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Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
“
She wanted to stomp after Jericho, spin him around, and . . . and what? Slap him again? He made her mad enough to bust. That's what.
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”
Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
“
He was supposed to be proficient at hiding his emotions. But in the case of Ivy, apparently the only one he’d hidden his feelings from was himself.
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Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
“
It wasn’t the first time and wouldn’t be the last time they’d have issues. But they were a family. And that meant they’d keep on forgiving and loving and sticking it out for the long haul.
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Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
“
A long string of protests burned for release, but from the set of Jericho’s shoulders, she reckoned she had about as much of a chance of getting him to change his mind as she had in getting a cow to climb a tree.
”
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Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
“
Somehow, they’d started a forest fire between them, and if they weren’t careful, it was going to burn them both up.
”
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Jody Hedlund (Falling for the Cowgirl (Colorado Cowboys, #4))
“
You’re struggling? You walk away every time anything happens between us. Do you know how that feels? For someone who sells pleasure, you certainly leave a bad aftertaste. I can’t keep being fucked over by you, Dawson.”
“It’s only you I want to fuck over, in every which way possible… doggy, cowgirl, cowboy. You name it, I want it from you.
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Kia Carrington-Russell (Virtuous Vows (Lethal Vows, #2))
“
It’s only you I want to fuck over, in every which way possible… doggy, cowgirl, cowboy. You name it, I want it from you.
”
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Kia Carrington-Russell (Virtuous Vows (Lethal Vows, #2))
“
Wade pulled his gaze from hers before he got stuck there again, then retrieved his hat from where it had fallen. He set it on Abigail’s head and looked at her appreciatively. She made one heck of a cowgirl. “You were born to wear that thing.” “A little big.” He gazed at her face, loving the planes and curves that were becoming so familiar. “Fits just right.
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Denise Hunter (A Cowboy's Touch (Big Sky Romance #1))
“
I believe you must be cold,
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Hope Whitley (Cowgirls are Forever (Forever Cowboys #4))
“
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What’re you doin’ up so early?”
“Says the rancher,” [Lainie] replied dryly.
“Funny. Maybe me ’n’ Kyle had plans for this morning.” [Hank] waggled his eyebrows.
“Maybe you and Kyle should’ve gotten up sooner.” She sipped her coffee. “The early cowboy gets to stick his worm in the cowgirl and all that.
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Lorelei James (Corralled (Blacktop Cowboys, #1))
“
It's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen."
He laughed. "No, honey, that would be you.
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B.J. Daniels (Wedding at Cardwell Ranch & The Cowgirl in Question (Cardwell Cousins))
“
While the cowboy is our favorite American hero - the quintessential man - most of us see the cowgirl as a child who will grow up someday and be something else.
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Teresa Jordan
“
The “Sons of the Pioneers” are amongst America’s earliest Country/Western singing groups. One weekend we’d drive south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico and the next weekend it would be to Knott’s Berry Farm, where I heard the “Sons of the Pioneers” singing Tumbling Tumble Weeds, Cool Clear Water and other Western songs that made the group famous. On many occasions, they performed with Roy Rogers, who was a movie cowboy and Dale Evans his cowgirl wife, from Victorville, California. The “Sons of the Pioneers” were popular at that time and were inaugurated into the Country Music Hall of Fame later in 1976. It was a summer that I will never forget! Knott’s Berry Farm is a 160-acre amusement park in Buena Park, California and the singing group has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Blvd.
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Hank Bracker
“
Cowboy's Neon Dream"**
Stompin' through the city with my boots and hat,
Got that country soul, no denying that.
The skyline's bright but it can't outshine,
The cowboy spirit that's mine, all mine.
'Cause I'm a cowboy, from dusk till dawn,
Two-steppin' to life's sweet song.
With whiskey smooth and city lights gleam,
I'm living out this cowboy's neon dream.
Every step I take's got that two-step flair,
From the honky-tonks to the open air.
I've got the rhythm of the wild, wild west,
In this modern world, I'm still the best.
Got my cowgirl by my side, so fine,
Together we shine, her hand in mine.
We're the duo that steals the scene,
In this cowboy's neon dream.
Yeah, I'm a cowboy, ain't no scheme,
Dancing through life, chasing the dream.
With a glass of whiskey and the skyline's beam,
I'm two-steppin' in this cowboy's neon dream.
Let's raise a toast, to the night's bright seam,
Where every cowboy and cowgirl finds their theme.
In the two-step beat and the city's stream,
We're living large in this cowboy's neon dream.
”
”
James Hilton-Cowboy
“
Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets. It weeps for the black people who think like white people. It weeps for the Indians who think like settlers. It weeps for the children who think like adults. It weeps for the free who think like prisoners. Most of all, it weeps for the cowgirls who think like cowboys.
”
”
Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues)
“
But then they got to thinking — which was a mistake because they were run-of-the-mill Cowboys. They figured one of them was Sequoia. Like a Cherokee living among Apaches.
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”
Ann Greyson (Cowgirls & Indians)
“
At the door, he tipped his sombrero in farewell, which got a snicker from Avery. Then the Cowboy sashayed out of the office, wiggling his butt for the world to see.
”
”
Ann Greyson (Cowgirls & Indians)
“
for the rest of the night. Other than to refuel with holiday leftovers. “Would you still love me if I told you I didn’t know what tasted better, Christmas leftovers or you?” Jana cocked her eyebrow with a sexy smile on her face. Damn, she was beautiful. “No but I will be mad unless you do some very thorough research and come up with a satisfying answer…” I grinned. This Christmas was unlike any of the others Jana and I had spent together. This time we had two little boys, a bigger family and we’d faced our biggest threat yet and come out on top. “If it’s for the sake of research, consider me in babe.” And I spent the rest of the night doing science. Between the gorgeous legs of my beautiful wife. I was pretty sure in that moment, life for the Reckless Bastard’s couldn’t get any better. Merry friggin’ Christmas to us! * * * * If you think the Reckless Bastards are spicy bad boys, they’re nothing compared to the steam in my next series Reckless MC Opey, TX Chapter where Gunnar and Maisie move to Texas! There’s also a sneak peek on the next page. Don’t wait — grab your copy today! Copyright © 2019 KB Winters and BookBoyfriends Publishing Inc Published By: BookBoyfriends Publishing Inc Chapter One Gunnar “We’re gonna be cowboys!” Maisie had been singing that song since we got on the interstate and left Nevada and the only family we’d had in the world behind. For good. Cross was my oldest friend, and I’d miss him the most, even though I knew we’d never lose touch. I’d miss Jag too, even Golden Boy and Max. The prospects were cool, but I had no attachment to them. Though I gave him a lot of shit, I knew I’d even miss Stitch. A little. It didn’t matter that the last year had been filled with more shit than gold, or that I was leaving Vegas in the dust, we were all closer for the hell we’d been through. But still, I was leaving. Maisie and I’d been on the road for a couple of days. Traveling with a small child took a long damn time. Between bathroom breaks and snack times we’d be lucky to make it to Opey by the end of the month. Lucky for me, Maisie had her mind set on us becoming cowboys, complete with ten gallon hats, spurs and chaps, so she hadn’t shed one tear, yet. It wasn’t something I’d been hoping for but I was waiting patiently for reality to sink in and the uncontrollable sobs that had a way of breaking a grown man’s heart. “You’re not a boy,” I told her and smiled through the rear view mirror. “Hard to be a cowboy if you’re not even a boy.” Maisie grinned, a full row of bright white baby teeth shining back at me right along with sapphire blue eyes and hair so black it looked to be painted on with ink. “I’m gonna be a cowgirl then! A cowgirl!” She went on and on for what felt like forever, in only the way that a four year old could, about all the cool cowgirl stuff she’d have. “Boots and a pony too!” “A pony? You can’t even tie your shoes or clean up your toys and you want a pony?” She nodded in that exaggerated way little kids did. “I’ll learn,” she said with the certainty of a know it all teenager, a thought that terrified the hell out of me. “You’ll help me, Gunny!” Her words brought a smile to my face even though I hated that fucking nickname she’d picked up from a woman I refused to think about ever again. I’d help Maisie because that’s what family did. Hell, she was the reason I’d uprooted my entire fucking life and headed to the great unknown wilds of Texas. To give Maisie a normal life or as close to normal as I was capable of giving her. “I’ll always help you, Squirt.” “I know. Love you Gunny!” “Love you too, Cowgirl.” I winked in the mirror and her face lit up with happiness. It was the pure joy on her face, putting a bloom in her cheeks that convinced me this was the right thing to do. I didn’t want to move to Texas, and I didn’t want to live on a goddamn ranch, but that was my future. The property was already bought and paid for with my name
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K.B. Winters (Mayhem Madness (Reckless Bastards MC #1-7))
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Teaser Stand By You, vol. 1
"Hey, Sleeping Beauty! Time to wake up!”
Max’s voice wakes me up and I can feel the mattress sink down next to me.
“Aloys, don’t make me kiss you to wake you up,” she says, “even though you wouldn’t really have to force me to do that.”
Her laughter penetrates and I can feel my lips start to smile.
“I’m awake, I don’t need a kiss.”
“That’s too bad,” Max sighs.
I sit up and glance in her direction. She’s wearing a black Stetson, smiling and greets me taking off her Stetson.
“Howdy cowboy!”
“Um, howdy cowgirl!
“See that, I’m blending in with the locals!”
“I did, and you’re doing a good job of it.”
“I know,” she says, “I’m a hottie and just look at this pair of boots!”
I raise my head to look at her feet, and she is wearing a nice pair of boots, her feet look tiny in them.
“Sweet, you look like a real cowgirl now.”
I sit straight up and watch her smiling when she looks at her boots.
“Now I can walk in a huge cow pie!
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Flo T.B (Stand By You ( Stand By #1))
“
The master of ceremonies was "Cactus" Pryor, "the George Jessel of Texas"; he apologized to the chancellor "because they had been unable to find a way to barbecue sauerkraut." There was a Mexican mariachi band, square dances by the Billyettes, a precision dance team (not all that precise) from Fredericksburg High School and then the German carols sung by cowgirls - the St. Mary's High School choir in full cowgirl regalia: Stetsons, blue skirts, white blouses and red neckerchiefs - under the direction of a nun in head-to-tie black habit. They closed with "Deep in the Heart of Texas" - and that was in German, too. "Die Sterne bei Nacht sind gross und klar / Tief in das Herz von Texas..." After each couplet, the traditional four Texas claps. At the conclusion, a cowboy yell, echoed by the audience. Only after that did the explanation for the grand piano appear: tull, curly-haired Van Cliburn of Fort Worth, whom newspapers had been calling "the pride of Texas" ever since his victory in 1958 in the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. The thunderous chords of the young virtuoso's selections from Beethoven, Brahms and other German composers filled the rickety little building.
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Robert A. Caro (The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4))
“
She’s got those cowgirl boots on that scream fuck me and a smile that matches ‘em too.
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Emma Creed (Pushing Limits (Corrupt Cowboys, #5))
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He rubbed the side of his face, using his left hand. No wedding ring, she noticed. But then there hadn’t been last time, either. He gave her a lopsided smile. “Sounds like you’re still a little angry.” “I’m not angry, O’Dell. Just really not interested in seeing you. Or talking to you. Or even breathing the same air as you.” His eyebrows went up. “That’s harsh.” Obviously not harsh enough because he didn’t leave. Instead he wandered to the display of chocolate letters and selected an “S.” For Sage? “ I owe you an apology,” he allowed. “Five years ago you owed me an apology. Now, you just need to walk out that door and let me go on pretending I never met you.” He sighed like she was the dolt in the classroom who just didn’t get it. “I did try to apologize. But you left town mighty fast.” Less than twenty-four hours after she crashed on that second barrel, her father had shown up in Casper, Wyoming and had whisked her home. But there had been time for Dawson to reach her. If he’d wanted to. That had been the last rodeo she’d ever competed in. And it had been the last time she’d let herself get tangled up with a cowboy, too. “Sage, even if it is a little late, I still want to say it. I was sorry then, and I’m sorry now.” Damn, if he didn’t look sincere. But she hardened her heart. Facts were facts and how sorry could he be if he’d waited so long to find her? Keeping her tone artificially sweet, she asked, “What exactly are you sorry for? Would
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C.J. Carmichael (A Cowgirl's Christmas (Carrigans of the Circle C, #5))