Brawley
must find a way to convince Maggie that their one true home is with each other.
Can't Stop Lovin' You
Maverick Junction #3
Lynnette Austin
Forever
THERE'S
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Maggie
Sullivan can't wait to get out of Texas. Luckily, she just got the break she
needed to make her big-city dreams a reality. But then Brawley Odell swaggers
back into Maverick Junction, looking hotter than ever in his dusty cowboy boots
and well-worn jeans. He's the guy she still dreams of at night. The guy who
broke her heart when he left her behind.
Fed up with
city life, Brawley jumps at the chance to return home and take over the local
vet's practice—and get back to the smart, sassy woman he's never been able
forget. He couldn't be prouder of Maggie's new wedding-dress business . . .
until he realizes it may mean losing her all over again. Determined to win her
back, Brawley must find a way to convince Maggie that their one true home is
with each other.
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Brawley Odell figured his life wouldn’t be worth one plug-nickel the second he stepped foot inside Maggie’s shop. Too damn bad. He hadn’t driven the thirty miles from Maverick Junction to back out now. He was goin’ in.
After all this
time, he’d come home…and she was leaving.
He grasped the
brass knob and shoulder-butted the oak door. It flew open, the bell overhead
jangling. Maggie Sullivan, all that gorgeous red hair scooped into a jumbled mass,
stood dead-center in the room. Dressed in a skirt and top the color of a forest
at twilight, she held a fuzzy sweater up in front of her like a shield. Those
amazing green eyes widened as he stormed in.
“We need to talk.”
He ignored the woman at the back of the store who flipped through a rack of
tops.
“What the—?”
He held up a hand.
“Don’t speak. Not yet.”
Her mouth opened,
then closed.
Anger boiled in
him, but he needed to find some modicum of control. Taking a deep breath, he
held it for the count of ten, then slowly released it. “Did you plan on telling
me?”
Her eyes narrowed,
but she said nothing.
“You’re invited to
New York City for a showing of your new line, and you don’t share that with me?
I have to learn about it secondhand?”
“Last I heard this
wasn’t about you, Brawley. In fact, my life, my business has absolutely nothing
to do with you.”
His jaw clenched.
“Anything that affects you is my business, Mags.”
She snorted. “Get
real, Odell. You gave up any and all rights years ago.” Her head tilted. “Why
are you even interested? You want to attend so you can show off your latest
Dallas Cowboy cheerleader? Maybe order her trousseau?”
He shot her a
deadly look, one that had made grown men back away.
Not Maggie. She
actually took a couple steps toward him. The woman had no survival instincts.
Another reason she had no business heading off to New York alone.
She tapped a
scarlet-tipped finger on her chin. “Oh, that’s right. There’d be no trousseau
for your honey, would there? Maybe a weekend-fling outfit for your date du
jour? A one-night-stand set of lacy lingerie.”
“Shut up, Maggie.”
“Make me.” Her
eyes flashed.
This time the look
in his eyes must have warned her she’d treaded too close to the edge. She
stepped back.
“You challenging
me, Maggie?”
When she wet her
lips, his gaze dropped to her mouth, followed the tip of her pink tongue as it
darted out.
“Only one way I
could ever get you quiet,” he said.
Her hand shot up.
“Don’t even think about it.”
“No thought
required. Been wanting to do this a long time now.” He closed the distance
between them and dropped his mouth to hers. Fire. Smoke. Hell, a full-out
volcanic eruption.
Lynnette
Austin, a
recovering middle school teacher, loves long rides with the top down and the
music cranked up, the Gulf of Mexico when a storm is brewing, chocolate frozen
custard, anything by Blake Shelton, Chris Young, and Thomas Rhett, and sitting
in her local coffee shop reading and enjoying an iced coffee. She and her
husband divide their time between Southwest Florida's beaches and Georgia's
Blue Ridge Mountains. Having grown up in a small town, that's where her heart
takes her—to those quirky small towns where everybody knows everybody...and all
their business, for better or worse. Writing for Grand Central and Sourcebooks,
she’s published twelve novels and is at work on a new series.
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