“What?”Shelby finally said.
“Sex—I didn’t know it was like that.Hell, I probably wouldn’t have waited so long—in fact I know I wouldn’t have.But then again, I’ve never actually met a man built like this guy.He was lean but also literally every inch of him was like it was carved from stone.And his hands were huge.His mouth was…” She stopped.“What?”
“I just can’t believe what I’m hearing.All this time you waited, and then you went for it, and who is this guy?”
“Do you want to know the craziest part?I don’t know.I mean I ran into him the other morning when I left the library, then he just randomly showed up in the bar yesterday.He defended me when Johnny tried to disrespect me.”
“He did?”
“Ya, it was really hot.So, I kissed him.”
“And then?”Shelby sat slowly on a bale of hay with her eyes open wide, waiting to hear what had happened next.
“And he was a good kisser, so then I decided… you know, why not.I bought a few condoms from the machine in the ladies’ room and then went back to his hotel with him.”
“And you don’t know his name?What he does?Nothing?”
“I mean I know he’s a sex rock star, with ripped muscles.”
“Will you see him again?”
“I don’t think so.He said he was just passing through on some business.”She sat next to her friend and wondered if she was disappointed or relieved.
They were both quiet for a few minutes.“Don’t tell anyone—okay?”she finally said.
Shelby wrapped her arm around Andy—a nickname only her family and closest friends used.“I would never share your secrets with anyone.Just promise me one thing.Next time you go back to some hot guy’s hotel room, can you text me so I know where to go looking for you, just in case.”
“Deal.So, in another twenty-seven years when I find another Greek god to give myself to, I’ll for sure let you know ahead of time.”
Then they both fell into a fit of laughter.After a few more questions Shelby helped with her morning chores before Miranda got to work on training her younger horses on jumps.If she was going to get this horse-breeding business to work, she had to prove her ranch could produce the most beautiful beasts, capable of becoming racing, jumping, or show ponies.
She’d spent the last two years, since her father died, building up her stock and was finally ready to take a few of her horses to an auction later this month.There was so much riding on this to include the ranch, she didn’t have time to think much more about her sexy stranger or where he’d come from.But that didn’t mean he wouldn’t always hold a special place in her memory.
CHAPTER SIX
Renn
Big Time
He could almostbe convinced he’d imagined the blonde and her long legs wrapped around him if he didn’t have such vivid memories of her yelling into his pillow as he made her come.He still couldn’t believe she had been a virgin and hadn’t told him.But once he’d figured it out, he’d made it his mission to give her as much pleasure as possible, and she’d been a fast learner on how to reciprocate.
Now as he packed his bag he couldn’t help but wonder about the woman.He remembered the bartender had said her name was Miranda Sutton.He could look her up or stick around Sandy Point to try to bump into her again.But the only problem was he didn’t want to stay where he wasn’t wanted, and he hadn’t heard from his half-brother Wesley Hart.So, with the eleven o’clock check-out time looming he grabbed his bag off the hotel bed and opened the door to leave.But then his phone dinged with an incoming text.
“Meet me at Hart House 112 Sunset Blvd, five o’clock.”
He let the hotel room door close again.They wanted to meet him—maybe it would still be just to tell him to get lost, but at least he’d finally have some answers.
*
“A fourth Hart?”Levi said, with a laugh of disbelief.“This has got to be a mistake.”
“I think you guys are just in shock and a little dose of denial, because he,” a beautiful brunette pointing at Renn said, “looks just like y’all.The spitting image.”
His three half-brothers’ heads all turned to stare at the woman and then back at Renn.They were all standing in the living room of the family house and he had never felt more like a fish out of water than now.
“What are you talking about?He has black hair and brown eyes, mostly.He’s tall—I’ll give you that—but too lean to be a Hart,” Levi argued while his two older brothers sat quietly.
Renn smiled at Levi’s disbelief.It was true he had mostly brown eyes, but his right eye was half blue.Icy blue just like Levi’s and Dalton’s.He’d always assumed their father gifted him that.Just a piece of him.
