Page 14 of My Cowboy Date
“Hang on,” I tell him and dart back inside, then return with a sweater. “I lowered the thermostat in the cabin, so it’ll be cold when we get back.” I shimmy my chest.
Wilder laughs. “Did you really?”
“No, but we’ll pretend I did and you can fuck me while we dance once we return here tonight.”
He groans and presses his hand against the bulge in his pants. “You make me so hard, woman.”
“And you made me wet,” I tease. “I thought of you as I put my lipstick on. The way you traced the head of your cock across my lips.”
“Get in the truck and do it fast or we’re not leaving,” he says gruffly, swatting me on the ass. His hand lingers for a moment, and he gives me a squeeze.
He gets in, then tells me to sit close to him as he drives with one hand on my thigh. As we travel, I’m wondering other than setting the record straight about what I created why the hell I want to go to the meeting and why I don’t just stay home and get dirty with Wilder.
And I start thinking about my revenge quest and how my fucking ex piece of shit doesn’t matter to me. I think about how he can’t hurt me and hasn’t been able to since I met Wilder. Because I’m over him and his weasel ass.
I’m so done wasting my time and energy on a man like that. Especially since I know now what a good man is.
“It’s over,” I say.
Wilder slows the truck to pull into a parking lot. “What’s over?”
“Anything to do with my ex. I’m settling everything tonight.”
He parks the truck and shifts to face me, eyebrows rising in surprise. “No more revenge?”
I shake my head. “No, because I realized on the drive over here that the best revenge for me is focusing on myself. On beingsuccessful and happy and having fun. He can live in yesterday if he wants. I’m going to live in the present.”
Wilder puts his hand on the back of my neck and pulls me in for a kiss. “Whatever you want, honey. But just so you know, whatever you do or say to him, I’m happy to punch the shit out of him as a physical exclamation point. Hell, I’m happy to punch the shit out of him for any reason.”
I laugh at that and it’s on the tip of my tongue to tell what I feel for him, but I don’t want to do that until after the meeting when we’re alone together.
I press myself against my cowboy and kiss him deeply, only stopping when the windows start fogging up. “I want to go in and get this over with so that moving forward I can concentrate on better things,” I tell him.
“That sounds like “Wilder, do me,” don’t you think?”
I laugh again and yank open the truck door to get out.
He comes around the truck and takes my hand in his, raising it to his lips to press a kiss to the back.
As he opens one of the double glass doors to the meeting hall, I take a step in and say to him in a low voice, “Wilder,please oh pleasedo me.”
Wilder
She doesnotfucking play fair and by the wicked grin she’s directing my way, she knows exactly what her words did to me. I slant her a look, a heated promise of what I’m going to do to her while I’m trying to smile and make nice with the crowd of ranchers greeting me.
They’ve come from various towns in Texas, some a few hours away because this association is one of the most popular. It’s that way because there’s a rumor that the prettiest women in Texas show up here. Now that I know Aspen, I’d have to agree that it’s the truth.
I greet a few of the cowboys I know, then put my hand on the small of Aspen’s back to lead her to a table in the center of the room. I’ve seen the way other men are looking at her but she’s not paying them any attention.
Then I see the way her ex is staring at her or rather at her cleavage and I want to kick his ass so hard it’ll make his tongue flop out of his mouth. He’s trying to get her attention but she’s busy talking to a rancher’s wife sitting next to her.
Someone at the front of the room takes a microphone and greets the crowd. When he begins to mention a new cattle tagging system and says he’d like to introduce the person behind it, Aspen gets to her feet and makes her way to the speaker.
He looks confused when she takes the microphone and introduces herself, then says, “I created this system several months ago because all the software that was available was expensive and I wanted to find a cheaper way to help ranchers. So for anyone who wants to use it, there’s no cost and I’ll be glad to send you a copy of it. Just let me know you want it.”
At her announcement, a round of applause rippled through the room and her ex looks like someone slapped him.
Aspen returns to my side and I make it clear by the way I pull her against my side that to mess with her will get his ass handed to him.
