Page 134 of Sunday Morning

“Let’s drop Anakin off at my uncle’s for the night, then get a motel room. Where are you parked? We’ll get your bag and come back tomorrow for your car.”

I eased out of the truck. “I don’t have a car. Your dad loaned me the old gray truck.”

“What happened to your car?” He wrapped his arm around my shoulders and walked with me toward the parking lot.

“My dad kicked me out of the house. And he took my car,hiscar.” I fought to keep it together. I didn’t need to tell him I walked for hours in the heat to his house.

“Why? Because of me?”

“Because I lost my cool and said everything I’d been feeling. And I said it all at once without sugarcoating anything. So I’ve been staying at a motel because I thought …”

He stopped to face me. “You thought what?”

“It’s so stupid. The list of rodeos must have fallen out, and I didn’t see it. So I thought you just left. Then Gabby found it and showed it to me.” I dropped my gaze, ashamed of how hurt I was over something he didn’t do.

“You thought I left you with nothing but a guitar and some cash?”

Keeping my chin tucked, I nodded.

“Look at me.”

I slowly lifted my gaze.

“You belong with me. Got it?”

“Say it again,” I whispered with a grin.

“You belong,” he ducked his head, lips brushing mine, “with me.” He kissed me.

Isaac showeredwhile I gingerly used my fingers to undress and slip into an oversized T-shirt that I used as a swimsuit cover-up and pajamas.

“I’m still not okay with you tying up baby cows,” I said when he emerged from the bathroom with a white towel around his waist and a few rivulets of water on his chest.

“But?” he said, digging through his bag for a pair of briefs.

“But what?”

He looked over his shoulder. “It sounded like there was a ‘but’ coming next. Like,butyou love watching me rope.Butthe rodeo is growing on you. Or I’m growing on you.”

“No buts.” I bit back my grin as my legs dangled from the side of the bed.

He turned, adjusting his towel. I stared at his abs and the trail of hair that dipped beneath the towel.

“Why are you chewing on your lip?” he asked.

“Just thinking.”

“About?”

I shrugged. “Just wondering if you have any condoms?” I risked a glance up at him as my cheeks filled with heat.

His dark eyes left me breathless every time he looked at me without saying anything.

I blinked first.

Isaac grinned and nodded. “Will I need one soon?”

Damn!