Billionaire In Hiding: The Complete Series (Alpha Billionaire Romance Western Love Story) by Claire Adams

more
often. His chiseled body had me all sorts of distracted and I hadn’t expected
that to happen when I returned home. Garrett wasn’t only a handsome guy; he
exuded self-confidence that was appealing as well.
    Most
of the men on the ranch weren’t very cute or self-confident so Garrett stood
out among them. He was out of place, yet seemed at home all at the same time.
His smile alone made him stand out among the other ranch hands we had working
for us at the time. I knew I should stay away from him; there was a gut feeling
that Garrett wasn’t telling the truth about his past or maybe even more than
that, but the attraction I felt kept pulling me toward him. I wanted to know
Garrett more, I needed to know him more; there was no stopping me.
    As
I made my way around the big barn and toward the chicken coop, I saw Garrett
standing in the corner with one of the hens staring him down. As much as I
wanted to help him, I couldn’t resist stopping to see how well he was able to
handle the hen. He hadn’t been bit since the pig incident and a good bite from
a hen would give me something to tease him about later.
    “No,”
Garrett said firmly to the hen as he pointed at it.
    I
giggled at his sincerity and firmness with the animal. He looked amazing in his
tight jeans and white t-shirt. His muscles bulged from his biceps and I could
see sweat from under his tan cowboy hat. I knew he would notice me soon, but
for the moment I liked watching him totally undetected.
    “Do
not come any closer. I’m just trying to clean out your coop so you can relax.
You like me, you know you do,” he continued to talk to the animal.
    The
hen seemed to listen to him and stopped staring at Garrett and went back to
walking around with the other hens. I had to laugh at his effort to tame the
animal; at least he was making an effort and not just running around like he
had done with the pig. Every day he learned from watching others or talking to
my father, it seemed like Garrett was starting to actually enjoy working with
us.
    “You’re
the hen whisperer, we should get you your own television show,” I said as I
walked up to him.
    “Your
father told me to be firm with them,” Garrett laughed. “I’m sure I look ridiculous.”
    He
did look ridiculous talking to the hen, but downright delicious at the same
time. As I moved closer to him I felt electricity between us. There was
excitement because we hadn’t talked for so long and there was pure animal
attraction, I couldn’t deny it. If I was the type of woman who bedded a man
just for fun; Garrett Reynolds would have certainly been that man. I could only
imagine how skilled he was in the bedroom and just how much enjoyment he would
deliver to my body.
    I
shook my head to get the sordid thoughts to move on. I was just there to see if
he could come with me to the river, nothing more and nothing less. I wasn’t the
type of girl to just fling myself at a man and certainly not a man who could be
gone at any moment. He was a traveler, he wasn’t a business man, he wasn’t a
stable guy, Garrett Reynolds wasn’t the guy for me; or at least I kept trying
to tell myself as I lusted after him.
    “No,
it looks like you’ve made a lot of progress with the animals the last few
months.”
    “Thanks,
I really have been trying.”
    “So
I need to head up to the river early tomorrow morning. How comfortable do you
feel you are with your horseback riding skills? Mother said you should come up
with me.”
    Garrett
looked nervous almost instantly. I could tell whatever my father had said to
him had scared Garrett enough that he didn’t want to go against him in any way.
In that aspect, Garrett was a good man for sure; a lesser man would have jumped
at the opportunity to get me alone and wouldn’t have cared what my father
thought. But Garrett respected my father, I could see it in the way the two of
them talked to each other.
    “It’s
okay, the river is all part of our ranch and mother said it was