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women. He wanted Noelle. Plain and simple. She didn’t want
him, but that little bit of knowledge wasn’t doing anything to temper his
desire for her.
    Gazing up, he saw a light coming from one of the rooms in the
neighboring house. Was Noelle staring out the window again, trying to get a
glimpse of him? His lips curled. Bitch.  
    No other female had made it as clear as her that he wasn’t worth
shit. Angered, his vision sought out the redhead sidling up next to him. “Your
friend over there wanted to take me in the tack room,” Sandy told him, failing
at any hint of coyness.
    Cole stiffened. She smiled at him and rubbed her breasts against
his arm and giggled. “I figured you’d want first dibs since it was so good last
time. Maybe this time I can see if we can get a sound out of you.” Her lipstick
smeared lips widened into a smile as if she had said something clever and cute.
    Cole peeled her arm from his. If there had been a slim chance in
hell he could have gotten it up for her, her mention of the silence he tried so
hard to maintain during intercourse killed all possibility. “Oh my God, you
sounded like an animal dying.” Five years after losing his virginity and he
could still hear the disgust in the girl’s voice.
    Get the fuck out of my way, Cole thought.
    As if he needed another reminder tonight of everything that was
wrong with him. Glancing up at the window again, he saw that the light was
still on. Cole dragged his gaze from the house. His foreman was correct. He
hated to admit that it was over with Noelle before he ever had a chance. Hated
to admit it hurt. He looked back at Sandy. Maybe if he drank a few cans of
beer, he’d be able to fuck her. Prove to himself his manhood wasn’t destroyed
because of a tease who had no interest in him. Would she even care if she saw
him with another woman? He hoped so and a part of him hoped it would cause her
pain.
    Like hell. Noelle had buckets of ice water tapped straight
from the Rockies coursing through her veins. There were just some things a
gorgeous face couldn’t make up for and he had a sickening feeling that dwelling
on her was a lost cause.
    Bullshit , his mind screamed. He’d seen the glint in her
eyes when she admitted her feelings. The way she’d carefully wrapped the
bandanna around his hand. He still couldn’t believe she had done it. So, was
that the reason his feet were taking him toward the river this late in the
evening, hoping she would be there with thoughts of him?
    “Hey Cole, you ain’t sticking around for the pussy?” Mike yelled,
taking a break from the woman’s breasts.
    Cole waved a hand, brushing off the question before striding in
the direction of the thick stretch of overgrown trees. A swim would help and then
he’d turn in for the night.
    ****
     She knew what was going on at the ranch, had driven by and seen
the cars parked along the roadside. Noelle wasn’t surprised that there were
women chasing down the cowboys. In a way she envied them. Those women might only
be in it for the sex, but at least they were brave enough to go after what they
wanted. They were stronger than her and didn’t have to worry about what anyone
would think of them. Like if Cole or anyone in Copper Mesa knew the reason her
family moved to the town was to save her father’s business and the Williams’
family reputation before her behavior and heroin use cost them everything they
held dear.
    Is Cole with one of them right now?
    Anger tore through her as she made her way to the river. Were
those powerful muscles on his back bunching and rippling as he pounded into
some strange woman? Were his hands holding on to soft feminine flesh not
belonging to her? Maybe he would even place his lips on this mystery woman’s.
    Stop it, Noelle. What that cowboy does is none of your
business.
    And yet it was. Sighing, Noelle glanced up at the night’s sky.
Overhead a silver moon hung low, illuminating the dark, its sole companion a
single star. She laughed