Читать книгу A McKaslin Homecoming - Jillian Hart - Страница 2
It wasn’t every day a girl got to round up runaway horses with a handsome—and kind—cowboy.
Оглавление“He’s cheeky. You taught him that, didn’t you?” Lauren asked.
“Sure did. I suppose there weren’t horses where you grew up,” Caleb said.
“The merry-go-round kind. As a little girl, I always wanted a horse. It was just a phase, I guess.”
“It’s a phase I never grew out of.”
“It must be nice.” In the mellow evening sunshine, he looked like everything good in the world. Her heart ached a little, and she couldn’t say why.
“Well,” she said as she took a step back. “I’d best get going.”
She kept backing away, because it was safer. Maybe it was better to escape while she could. Even a man as decent as Caleb had shortcomings, as everyone did. And that was the exact reason why she couldn’t let herself start to think that he was as great as he seemed, as she seemed to want him to be.
