Page 98 of Opposites (Never) Attract
That was the dream. Her, here with me.
I opened my eyes to find three ofthe five McGraw brothers staring at me like I was a fox in the henhouse with feathers coming out of my mouth.
“The fuck?” I asked, blinking myself awake.
“What are your intentions toward our sister?” Carter asked me, pointing to the woman curled up against me, her face buried in my chest. Her eyes closed. Her lips parted. She even slept pretty.
Sunshine.
She blinked her eyes open and now I was pissed that they’d woken her up. She saw me and smiled, and it was all I could do not to wrap my arms around her and tell her brothers to get the hell out of my house. But, then she saw them and she went high-alert.
“What are you doing here?” Sunshine sat up and pushed her hair out of her face. “Is something wrong? The markets…?” she reached for her phone, lost in the comforter and sheets.
“What are you doing here?” Mac said. “And, if you’re getting involved with Tag, then I’m definitely never taking dating advice from you.”
“What’s wrong with me?” I asked.
“You’re elusive,” Mac said. “Everybody knows that.”
“I’m not getting involved,” she protested. “I just fell asleep.”
“Likely story,” Carter said, arms crossed over his chest.
“I told you he liked her,” Ethan told Carter.
“You didn’t tell me she liked him back,” Carter shot back, then turned to look at Sunshine again. “Wait, you are here because you like him, right? Not because he seduced you with his elusive cowboy ways.”
I pulled a pillow out from under my head and fired it at Carter. He ducked in time, but it grazed his ear. He grinned, bright and wide, and I knew they were having agood time giving their sister a hard time. “What are you all even doing here?”
“Your dad gave you up,” Mac said. “When you weren’t at the barn first thing this morning, we found him mucking a stall and he said you were snuggling with Sunshine.”
“At first, I thought it was some kind of weird tanning reference,” Ethan interjected.
“I thought your dad was high,” Mac said.
“All of you get the fuck out. Now,” I barked.
“We weren’t snuggling,” she said, getting out of bed. Finding her socks and boots where she’d left him. “We were watching Seth on television and then we just fell asleep.”
“Hey, did you see that? Took first in bareback and steer wrestling,” Carter said, like a proud older brother.
“He was great,” Sunshine said. “What I saw, anyway. I’m going to head back to the Lodge.”
“Hold up,” I told her. “Let me throw some boots on and I’ll walk you back.”
“Oh no,” Carter said. “Ethan can walk Sunny back. He’s got to head into town anyway for his shift at the clinic. You and I need to talk.”
I grabbed a clean t-shirt out of the dresser drawer and pulled it on. “There’s nothing we need to discuss, Carter.”
“On the contrary. I’ll ask again. What are your intentions?”
“My intentions are to smack you in the face with another pillow,” I told him.
“Hey, stop talking like I’m not in the room!” Sunshine shouted, hopping on one foot as she pulled her second boot on. “I’m a grown ass woman and can sleep where I like, and with whom I like.”
“So you do like him,” Ethan asked her.
“No!”
