Free Boots and Leather: Ugly Stick Saloon, Book 2 by Myla Jackson Page B

openness and freedom. “It’s beautiful here and…so quiet.”
    Luke stood beside her, staring out at the land and sky. “We like to come here to get away from the noise.”
    “Really?” She rolled her eyes. “I see you at the Ugly Stick often enough, making some of that noise.”
    “See? She does notice us.” Mark grinned at Luke. “We like to make noise when we like to, but when the day is done, we come out here for the peace.”
    Luke stared out over the land. “It’s where we do our best thinking.”
    “I can see why. It’s remarkable.” Libby gazed at the landscape, one hand resting over her heart, her chest filling with a huge sense of coming home. She tried to push it back, but the sensation wouldn’t abate and it scared her.
    “We call it Skyview.” Luke smiled. “We don’t need fancy pictures on the walls, nature is the best artwork we’ve discovered.”
    Mark stood on her other side, still holding the blanket, having slung his saddlebag over his shoulder. “Hungry?”
    “A little.” Libby was surprised at how hungry she was. Because she’d been so upset by her pending move, she hadn’t been able to eat all day yesterday nor that morning. The ride out, the open air and sunshine must have been doing her some good, resurrecting her appetite.
    Having lived in Temptation, Texas for eight months was making her antsy, impatient, fearful, and aware it was about time to move on or be discovered.
    For two years, she’d been moving from town to town, never staying more than a few months, just long enough to make a few bucks to pay for gas to get her to the next town. But something about the Ugly Stick Saloon and Audrey had appealed to her, making her want to stay a little longer than usual. Audrey had a way of collecting strays. Not that Libby considered herself a stray. She hadn’t been looking for a home, just a temporary stop on her journey across the country.
    “Can I see the inside of the house first?” she asked as she stared through the huge windows.
    Luke led the way, room to room. From a gleaming stainless steel kitchen to the living room that took up all of one side of the house, she had a view through floor-to-ceiling windows.
    Even the bedrooms had glass windows with a view as stunning as the opposite side of the house.
    Besides the living room, Libby counted four spacious rooms that could be bedrooms and a study with two desks. “You two are really planning to live here together?”
    Mark nodded. “We’d considered building two houses, but why waste space? We’re together all the time.”
    She stared at the twins. “Don’t you get tired of each other?”
    Mark and Luke looked at each other and shook their heads.
    “No,” Luke answered. “We know how the other thinks and what sets each other off. You could say we’re pretty much in sync.”
    “What about curtains for the bedrooms?” She nodded toward the windows.
    Mark grinned. “We’ll have shades that can be drawn when the sun is too hot coming through. But frankly, we’re in no hurry. Since there are no neighbors close enough to peek in, it isn’t an issue.”
    Luke stared out at the horizon. “We like how open it is.”
    Libby nodded and whispered, “Me, too.”
    “It’ll be like making love in the open air,” Mark stated. “There’s nothing sexier.”
    A flush of heat washed over Libby’s body at the memory of making love with these men under the Texas sky filled with a millions of sparkling stars. The surge of desire was proof, yet again, that her family hadn’t totally killed the exhibitionist inside of her. Her belly tightened and a rush of moisture pooled between her legs. Oy vey , the twins were making her hotter than she’d ever imagined possible. She shouldn’t have waited two years to act on her sexual desires. Come to think of it, she hadn’t been tempted in those two years until she’d seen Luke and Mark on the dance floor of the Ugly Stick Saloon. And she probably wouldn’t have acted on