Love Again (Cowboys & Angels 4)

Amelia sighed. “Your problem is not being able to admit that you want to be with Jonathon. If you let things flow naturally between you two, you’d be having him in your place right now, and he’d probably be making you cry out his name in every room of your house.”

I closed my eyes and sighed. “Nope. He’s on his way to Vegas with Cord. Their plan is to gamble, drink, and hook up with random women.”

“What? I mean, Cord I get, but Jonathon was down for that?”

I stayed silent longer than I should have as I made my way into the living room.

“What did you do, Waylynn?”

A groaned as I flopped onto the sofa. “I might have twisted his arm and forced him to go.”

“Oh, no! What happened?”

Leaning my head back, I closed my eyes. “I don’t know what I’m doing, Meli. I want to try this with him, but I’m sure it wouldn’t work. I want a family, and he’s younger than me. And there are already rumors flying around town about me. I don’t think I can handle more gossip.”

“First off, screw the rumors. The people in this town are either bored or jealous. And how do you know he isn’t ready to settle down? Cord mentioned Jonathon dated a girl from Uvalda for a couple of years. He was ready to get serious, but she wasn’t. He broke things off with her about a year ago.”

My heart dropped at the idea of Jonathon wanting that with another woman. “Really? What was her name?”

“I don’t know. Some girl he met at Cord’s place. She still shows up every now and then, Trevor said.”

“And why were you and Trevor talking about Jonathon?”

“It was a few nights back, Jonathon was at Cord’s Place and I casually brought him up to Trevor.”

“Ugh! Amelia, I don’t want anyone to put two and two together.”

She let out a frustrated sigh. “Jesus, Waylynn. I doubt it would make a difference. They already know you bumped uglies with someone. Might as well let them know who.”

“Cord asked me earlier today. I nearly told him.”

“What made you stop?”

“Do you not remember our brothers beating up Wade?”

Amelia chuckled. “They didn’t exactly beat him up, but I get what you’re saying. Listen, I was worried about what Trevor might do, and that actually turned out better than I thought it would.”

“I don’t know. I’ve driven around for hours thinking about it. Maybe I could convince Jonathon to keep it on the down low…I mean, if we gave this a go.”

“You really want to sneak around, Waylynn?”

I blew out a frustrated breath. “No.”

When my phone beeped, I pulled it away from my ear and saw an incoming text from Cord. I hit speaker and pulled up the text.

“Looks like they made it to Vegas,” I said as I opened the attachment.

“Yeah, I got a text too.”

When the picture loaded I felt sick to my stomach. “I’m heading to bed. I suddenly got really tired. Talk to you tomorrow.”

“Waylynn,” Amelia whispered. I knew she had opened the attachment.

“Night, baby sis. We’ll talk tomorrow.”

I hit End before she could say anything. The picture Cord had sent popped back up on my phone with the text we made it. It was a selfie of him at the casino. Behind him were Dustin, Tom, and Jonathon. There was a blonde smiling and hanging on Cord with her head thrown back, laughing. My stomach tightened as I looked at Jonathon. A brunette had her arms wrapped around his neck.

Swallowing hard, I texted Cord back.

Me: Didn’t take long for the buzzards to start swarming.

Cord answered almost immediately.

Cord: No shit! They were on us the second we walked into the casino.

Anger pulsed through my veins. Jonathon was like all the other guys. All they cared about was crawling between some whore’s legs.

I thought back to the day I was with Jonathon. I was no better than the girl hanging on his neck.

Me: Have fun with the Vegas bunnies. Wrap your stick.

Cord: Always, big sis! Always!

I erased the message and tossed my phone onto the coffee table before I dragged myself to the shower. The faster I got into bed, the better.

Chapter Three

Jonathon

The brunette was hanging on me like her life depended on it. With the amount of alcohol on her breath, she probably couldn’t stand on her own, and I worried that if a spark was lit anywhere near her, the whole place would go up in flames.

She was that drunk.

Reaching up, I pulled her off me. Dustin and Tom were already talking to the girl’s friends. The blonde next to Cord was waiting while he texted.

The blonde grabbed Cord’s arm. “You boys want to go up to our room? I’m thinking we can have a bit of fun.”

He looked up at her and smiled. “As fun as that sounds, I think we’re gonna gamble for a bit, sweetheart.”