Espino, Stacey - Hogtying the Cowgirl [Ride 'em Hard 3] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) Read Online Free Page A

of the sun. Time flew by when he enjoyed what he was doing.
    The truck doors slammed, one after the other. He wasn’t expecting anyone, and his personal address wasn’t listed at the distribution center. Then he saw the gleam of the sun on that familiar blonde hair. There weren’t too many women with hair that blonde, a mix of honey and gold. He chuckled to himself, interested to see what offer she had for him today. Maybe he should ask the little brat to muck out his barn. That should turn her off in a heartbeat.
    But she wasn’t alone. A tall, well-muscled cowboy came up alongside her, his face stoic. His size made Ms. Garner look like a child as she walked next to him. He’d wager the man was nearly as tall as he was, which wasn’t an easy task.
    “Mr. Roberts. I was hoping I could have a word with you.” She was wearing tight blue jeans, which hugged her generous hips. Her T-shirt molded over her full breasts and read “Cowgirls do it better.” He could imagine. His cock twitched under his belt.
    “Who’s your friend?”
    “This is my brother, Matthew Garner. He’d like to speak with you about the mix-up at the auction.”
    “Mix-up?”
    The little spitfire couldn’t control her temper. She scowled and clamped her jaw down tight. “You have my horse, Mr. Roberts. That stallion was supposed to go home with me yesterday. I’ve been saving for the day he went on auction, and then you just came out of nowhere and pulled the rug out from under me. That’s not the way we conduct ourselves around these parts.”
    He wasn’t giving up the horse. They’d already bonded in the span of a few hours. You couldn’t buy a connection like that. Nothing that Angel Garner or her brother offered him would be enough.
    “How’d you get this address anyway?” He walked away from his uninvited guests, closing the paddock and hanging up his training lead on the end of the fence. The heat was already becoming unbearable, and the day was young. He needed to get his outdoor work done before the weather demanded he work indoors out of the heat.
    “My brothers have their ways. Surely you’ve heard of them?”
    Should he have? “Like you’ve said, I’m new in town. I don’t know your brothers from Adam.” Clay took measured steps onto his wraparound porch. The house may have been old, but it certainly had its charm. He saw the potential the moment he’d come with the real estate agent to look at it.
    When he turned, Angel was elbowing her brother in the side. “Mr. Roberts. Would you consider selling the horse back to us? We’d give it an excellent home, and it’d mean the world to my little sister.”
    Clay laughed out loud. “Your little sister needs to learn she can’t have everything she wants in life. That stallion is mine, legal and binding, and he’ll remain so.” She looked back and forth from Matthew to him, almost frantically. The other man appeared at a loss for words for either of them.
    “Landon, do something!” she hollered when Clay opened the screen to the house.
    Ah, she was trying to pull the wool over his eyes. He should have guessed the strapping young man wasn’t her brother, but a lover. The way the cowboy acted wasn’t consistent with a brotherly love.
    “I thought your brother’s name was Matthew, darlin’. Either you need your head checked, or you’re trying to swindle me into selling my horse.”
    She pointed her finger at him. “You’re being unreasonable.”
    He shook his head, unbuttoning his shirt. His day was already disrupted, so he may as well shower and head into town to check on his operation. “No, I’m a very reasonable man. You’re just a little monster in need of a spanking.”
    Her boyfriend choked back a chuckle, which earned him a punch in the arm from an irate cowgirl. “Damn you both. I won’t be made a fool of.” She stormed back to the truck, revved the engine, and then barreled off the property, leaving her lover literally in the dust.
    They both