Running Wilde (The Brothers of Wilde, Nevada 3)
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Samantha put her arm around Jessie’s shoulders. “You poor thing. Those brothers sure do know how to hurt a woman.”
“Yes, they do.”
* * * *
At four in the morning, Jessie crawled into her hotel bed, still feeling the effects of the tequila. Though Dallas had offered to walk her back to the hotel, she’d let her two new gal pals do it.
Jessie wasn’t quite ready to let Dallas off the hook, but she was close after talking with Samantha and Selby. Each of them came from similar families as the Wilde brothers. Samantha’s mother had two husbands and Selby’s had four. When they talked about it, she actually started seeing the logic in such an arrangement.
She looked up at the ceiling of her room. How could she even consider marrying the brothers? Sure, she had fallen for Jackson, Phoenix, and Dallas. But she barely knew Denver. And what about Austin? Every time she thought about him, her anxiety grew. Her meeting with him had gone terribly. He had a dominating demeanor that unhinged her. No. It could never work.
Buzz. Buzz.
The sound came from her cell phone. Where is it? She’d been in such a rush earlier that she’d forgotten to take her cell to the casino.
It was on the desk by the window. Jessie crawled off the bed and grabbed it up.
The caller ID told her that she definitely did want to answer it.
“Hey, Michael.” Her tongue felt thick from the tequila.
“Jessica? Where the hell have you been?”
“At th-the c-casino.”
“You’re drunk?”
She giggled. “I guess so.”
“Well, Wilde seems to be having a real impact on you.”
“It certainly is.”
“So, what about the cowboys you told me about? How’s that going?”
She wasn’t sure if it was the tequila or that she was so tired, but she told him the whole story about the Wilde brothers and what the cowboys wanted from her.
“Wow, Jessica. I travel the world for craziness, and you find it in rural Nevada.”
“It is crazy? A woman marrying so many men?”
“Maybe. Most would say so. But who cares what others think. I don’t. Not anymore.”
“I’m glad you finally decided to be yourself, Michael.”
“Me, too. You should do the same. Stop worrying about what others think and go with your gut. Let me ask this. Do you love them?”
She sighed. “I think I am falling in love with at least three of them.”
“What about the other two cowboys?”
“I don’t know. Denver, maybe, though he’s pretty intense at times. Austin scares me.”
“Doll, you deserve happiness. Why not just see where this takes you?”
“You really think so?”
“Sure. Besides, I want to be there when your dad gets the wedding invitations.”