Free Cowboy Save Me: By Judith Lee (Tiller Brothers Book 1) by Judith Lee Page A

truck.  She hit a bump and rolled several times with the truck stopping on its side.  He was starting to get out of the truck when he saw headlights coming down the county road, so he got back in the truck and took off.
    The next morning he drove down the dirt road and saw the sheriff’s car and an ambulance near the wrecked truck, but the woman they were hauling out didn’t have red hair.  The evening before, he couldn’t tell the color of her hair because it was so dark.  He had followed the wrong woman. He decided he better lay low for a few days.  Marcus was furious he had assumed it was Tammy just because it was the same truck.  That bitch was going to pay for all the trouble she had brought to him.
    Now as he lay in the bush, he decided that maybe she had fled the city, and he would have to start his search all over again.  He had called the Extension office and was told she was on vacation.  Marcus had been so sure she was holed up on the ranch, but there had been no sight of her. That meant he was going to have to go back to Laramie and survey her parent’s home again.  If there was one thing he had learned in jail it was patience.  When the time was right, he’d get her.  He’d follow her wherever she led him until she was alone and he could get her. And when he got her, she would wish she had never tried to leave him. 
    He laughed to himself as he remembered how easy it had been for him to get out of jail on probation.  Because he was a professor and had never had any trouble with the law, he started helping all the inmates learn how to read and use the computers.  He attended AA meetings, and met with a counselor every day sharing how sorry he was for hurting Tammy and causing the accident that hurt an innocent family.  He proclaimed that the worst punishment of all was living with the sorrow he would feel for the rest of his life for causing so much pain to his victims.  With a combination of his good work in prison and all the positive comments from the prison staff at his parole hearing, he was let out of jail.  And now his plan to get Tammy was in motion.

Chapter Seven
    The week went by slowly.  Tammy had met with her counselor.  She had encouraged her to start writing in a journal again.  It had helped her the first year to get through each day, but Tammy had thought she was over those anxieties.  She got a new journal because she didn’t want to be tempted to look back over her first diary. The horrors would surely take her back to the weak woman she once was.
    She’d found the job of her dreams and was so proud of what she had achieved.  Even though she hadn’t wanted a man back in her life again, and she told herself that she could live a happy contented life without a man, she hadn’t expected to feel this deeply for Cody.  It still scared her to think another man could control her like Marcus had.
    And never in a million years would she have thought she would want a man who wanted to be in control , to be in charge as he told her.  But it had been earth shattering.  It had showed her that she could be a strong independent woman and still let another man, who only wanted to give her pleasure, take full control over her body. However, it didn’t mean she was ready to give him her heart.  She was working to trust him. She needed more time to find out if he was as good of a guy as he seemed to be.
    Surely after he had his fill of her, he would be ready to find another challenge.  The women that had kissed him at the Ag booth were all ready to give him the sexual favors he would like.  Many of them had probably already shared his bed.  Still there seemed something special happening between them.  Or was it just wishful thinking that she could capture his heart.
    It was too soon to think about loving him, but she cared about him.  Hell, she wanted him desperately.  Could it be that she was using him to see if she could reach heights she had never reached before with a