One Last Sunset (The Long Ranch Series Book 1) by Michel Prince Read Free Book Online Page B

accented his strong jaw and full lips. Then again, she almost fell off her stool when he nibbled on the corner of his lip. When he looked up and smiled, she didn’t know if she should look away or wave.
    “Oh sweet cowboy ass, please tell me you know that regular,” Kendra said as she curled her arms around Mel’s shoulders.
    “That’s Sunshine,” she sighed and waved.
    “Sunshine? I thought cowboys couldn’t be hippies.”
    “Never name a child when high on painkillers,” Darla said as she placed two sodas in front of the girls.
    Kendra laughed. “Wait, Sunshine? As in the—”
    Melody jabbed Kendra in the stomach and her friend laughed louder.
    “You’re lucky his mom’s here with access to my food or I’d make a fool of you,” Kendra whispered in her ear. “Damn, no wonder you nicknamed your dildo Sunny.”
    “I did not,” Mel lied.
    Sunshine slid off his stool and came toward them.
    “Oh shit,” Kendra purred. “How have you not wrapped your legs around that waist?”
    Mel’s eyes shot south and the way Sunny strode toward them wasn’t helping her stay dry. These were the times she wished she was more like Kendra and could just drag Sunny into the bathroom. Instead, Mel felt her fear taking over and her eyes stayed down.
    “Hey Mel.”
    Sunny’s Southern drawl had Kendra’s purr turning to growl.
    “If you don’t fuck this man I will.”
    “Not if you want to live to see Cuddles again,” Mel said out of the corner of her mouth.
    “Blasphemy.”
    “Where is he this weekend anyway?”
    “The spa, he’s getting groomed and pampered. You said dogs have to stay outside at your house.”
    “That is true.” Mel finally looked up at Sunny. “Come back for you clothes?”
    “I need to find work. I was hoping to talk to Carolyn when she comes in, plus I figured I’d hang out with my mom.”
    “Aren’t you just a Southern gentleman,” Kendra cooed.
    “Sunny, this is my college roommate Kendra.” Mel rolled her shoulders so Kendra would finally get off her back.
    Sadly, she only did so literally, not figuratively. “You work on Mel’s family ranch, don’t you?” Kendra asked. “No wait, you travel around with her cousin, TJ… BJ…”
    “JT,” Sunny corrected with a broad smile. “He just hung up his saddle and I’m on a little break from the rodeo circuit.”
    “Rodeo? Do you ride or rope?”
    Mel reached back and pinched her friend to stop.
    “I ride bareback broncos.”
    “Bareback? That sounds dangerous.”
    Jealousy surged through Melody like a wildfire on a can of gasoline. Heat mixed with anger and she couldn’t decide if it was because her friend had crossed a line or because she was too scared to cross it herself.
    “That could be why I’m home with cracked ribs.”
    “Those suck, you can’t breathe without pain and worse yet, they can’t cast them to keep ‘em together. We’ll drink milk to get those bones strong and nothing too strenuous, no matter what Mel wants to do with you.”
    “Kendra,” Melody gasped as she hopped off her stool. “I’m sorry, her mouth needs to be registered as a weapon.”
    “It’s fine. Mel, can I talk to you alone for a minute?”
    “I’m sure she’d prefer more than a minute,” Kendra replied with the straw between her lips. She looked up and sucked down her soda.
    “You realize you expect to sleep in my house and wake in the morning,” Melody growled before turning to walk to an empty table with Sunny. Nervousness had her flipping her phone in her fingers just to keep from stumbling and knocking over the condiments at the table.
    “I need to ask you a favor,” Sunny began. “Actually a few of them.”
    “Whatever I can do to help?” she said as the twelve year old inside her swooned looking at the strain the muscles in his shoulders had on his t-shirt.
    “Do you know why my dad got fired?”
    “I think he was gone before I came home from school. Walt really doesn’t involve me in the daily ranch activities