Galloping Hearts (Contemporary Cowboy Romance) (Texas Heat series: Book 2, Mitchell and Moira's story) by Amelia Rose Read Free Book Online Page A

school.”
    She smiled. Her stunning smile always left him sort of breathless. She crawled over to him, taking the sketch pad from his hand. He wasn’t sure what to expect when she set the pad down and straddled his legs.
    She caressed his cheek before kissing his lips. Over the two previous weeks, they’d had some clandestine make-out sessions but they’d never done anything else. In fact, he’d never made it past second base. After a couple moments, she broke their kiss and looked into his eyes. Her normally bright eyes were glazed, her cheeks flushed.
    Taking her hands down his chest, she asked him a very simple question, where the meaning was between the words. “Can I show you how beautiful I think you are?”
    He nodded as she dipped in for another kiss. Before he knew it, he was rounding past second and third, heading toward home plate.
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    Moira smiled to herself as her head rested on Mitchell’s bare chest. She hadn’t expected to lose her virginity to someone she’d known less than a month, much less in the middle of a cow pasture, but she felt like she’d known him so much longer than what regular time can measure.
    After making love to him underneath her favorite tree on the property, she wondered how much of what she was feeling was based on how long she’d been staring at him. She wondered if more was based on him being her first . The third option was scarier than the other two together. She wondered if the feelings were something else, something deeper. Was she truly falling in love with her Corn Silk Boy, who she’d been staring after less than a month previously?She ran her fingers gently over his chest. “I think we need to head back in.”
    He nodded as they sat up. He couldn’t look her in the eye. Shit , she thought to herself. Was I that bad?
    She watched him pull his shirt over his head and was as powerless to stop the words as the delta during spring floods. “Did I do something wrong?”
    His arms stopped arranging his shirt as he looked up. “Why on Earth would you ask me that?”
    She looked at her hands. “Because you can’t look me in the eye now. I.. I just want to make sure I didn’t mess anything up.”
    He shook his head, a soft lopsided smile creeping over his face. She liked that smile. He held his arms open as he gestured for her to come over with his arms.
    Once she was embraced, he tucked his mouth next to her ear. “You did nothing wrong. First, you drew a beautiful picture of me… that I still think is someone else… and then you were willing to be with me. You did everything right. It’s me.”
    She snaked her arms around his chest, keeping her eyes averted so she wouldn’t ruin the stream of conversation. “What do you mean?”
    She felt him tense slightly. “I… I wanted to be more for you the first time.”
    “What do you mean, Mitch? It was perfect.”
    “Well, I wasn’t exactly a marathon runner. And I felt dumber than a pile of bricks. I guess that’s what happens when a guy’s a virgin.”
    Her head whipped up and she saw his face go crimson. “You’re a virgin , Mitchell?”He nodded, looking down again, the red of his face deepening. She held his face until he looked at her.
    When he finally did, she whispered. “Thank God, and thank you . That means a lot knowing I won’t just be another notch in your belt.”
    She couldn’t help but smile when his eyes widened. She had to hug him tighter when he began shaking his head hard.
    After a second, she felt his hand stroke through her hair as he spoke in a whisper. “You wouldn’t ever be anything like that. I’d much prefer the notch to be on my heart.”
    She sighed. Little did he know, that was the perfect thing to say.
     

Chapter Nine
    Mitch woke up before dawn on the Fourth of July. Red had told the crew, via his oldest son, Andrew, who was back from whatever mysterious place he’d disappeared to, that everyone would have the day off their major tasks. They only had to feed and