Free Billionaire In Hiding: The Complete Series (Alpha Billionaire Romance Western Love Story) by Claire Adams Page A

about her
that could drive men away. But the more I talked to her and the closer I got to
her, I was realizing that her serious nature was just her armor to make it in
this man’s world. Sarah was actually very sweet and kind and tried to hide it
behind everything else that she portrayed.
    The
touch of her hands on mine wasn’t something I could forget though. Even though
for the next several weeks she seemed to be avoiding getting close enough to
touch me. Something about our interaction during that morning of making
breakfast had scared her, or perhaps her parents had told her to stay away;
Sarah was very obviously avoiding me.
    She
had promised to teach me more about the horses and yet had totally avoided me
since that morning we made breakfast. There were some quick glances as we
worked, a smile and nod, or even a quick hello as I walked by, but Sarah was
avoiding me.
    At
first I thought she was just trying to play hard to get. Or maybe she was
proving her point that she was the supervisor and I was an employee. But the
way here eyes lit up when we did look at each other, I felt like she was for
sure interested in me. I understood she didn’t want her parents to think
something was going on between the two of us—hell I didn’t want that either.
But there was no use in totally ignoring each other if we were going to work
together; we could certainly decide to do that and just be friends if that was
what she wanted.
    “Can
you show me how to saddle the horse?” I asked one late afternoon after I had
finished all my other jobs.
    She
looked around nervously as she stood at the end of the barn. I wasn’t sure why
I was suddenly making her so nervous, but as a man I knew not to move forward until
she allowed it. As men, we had to be in tuned to thing like the way a woman
felt when alone with us; there were too many shady men in the world and they
had ruined it for all the good guys.
    Even
thought I was clearly a good guy and I knew it, I wasn’t sure that Sarah was
one hundred percent convinced of my good guy status. She wanted to like me, I
could see that in her eyes; but she had some trepidation about giving in to her
gut feeling about me.
    To
be honest, I wasn’t sure that I would trust the guy I was at that moment in my
life. The story I had been given when I was placed at the ranch seemed a little
shady to me and I probably hadn’t done it justice with my unconvincing lying. A
guy traveling to Wyoming to Washington for a job opportunity wouldn’t actually
stop to work at a ranch. If he had a job opportunity, he would want to get to
that damn job and not sit for weeks on a ranch. But I tried to avoid the
realities of the story I had been telling about my past and move forward. I
just had to make the best of it and hope that Sarah could see through the lies
and see that I was a decent guy.
    “Um,
actually I was just heading into town to get a saddle for Buckjoy. You could
come with me if you’d like.”
    The
agent who had dropped me off at the ranch had told me very clearly never to
leave the ranch. If I went into town, it was more likely someone would see me
and if Frank Gordano sent people looking for me, it was more likely they could
find me. I knew the rules; I had avoided going to get my own watch because of
these rules. Everything in my mind told me to refuse this offer of Sarah’s …
but my mind wasn’t really in control at that moment.
    Lust
can do wondrous things to a man’s psyche though. Justification and logic seem
to swim together and make sense of situations and excuses to forgo all that a
man knows is true. And in that moment, lust took control of my mind and I
agreed to put myself in danger and go with this beautiful woman whom I had been
distant from for weeks and desperately wanted to be alone with again.  
    “Sure,”
I said as I took off my gloves and followed Sarah to the truck.
    Adrenaline
pulsed through my body at the decision I just made. As we pulled out of the
driveway, I looked