Lassoing His Cowgirl

by Steele, C. M.

  “David,” I gave him attitude as I said his name. “I don’t know who the hell you think you are, but you could just move on. I am not interested. I want a cowboy not some man who sits in an office all day and getting his nails done. So beat it, bub.”

  I pointed my finger in his chest and all I got was a chuckle, then he said, “Bub, wow. Evie, my sweet little devil, I know all about the tomboy routine and if you think your attitude is going to scare me, you are wrong. I grew up on the Southside of Chicago, there isn’t anything you got that is going to run me off.” He got all up near me and I wanted to pull him close, and at the same time I wanted to knock him on his ass for being so damn smug.

  “We’ll see, you will be running back to the city for a city whore soon.” I tried to not think about what I was saying because the thought of it was not something I would like to consider.

  “How about you put away the claws and dance with me.” I didn’t get a chance to refuse when he dragged me out on the dance floor. Damn him, I couldn’t make a scene. My parents warned me to behave. Like I misbehaved at all in the last like two months or so.

  “Before you say some smart ass shit, stop now. I am not above spanking that ass of yours.” I left my mouth open. I didn’t know what to say. He just threatened to spank me and for some reason it sounded like a good thing. When he pulled me close, I could smell his cologne and his natural male aroma. It was heady as fuck. I wasn’t interested. I am not interested. I don’t want to be interested. Damn, I was very interested. “I don’t want to dance with you.” I was lying my ass off.

  “Yeah well, I don’t want to be falling for a girl nearly half my age.” Oh shit, damn, my face was going to be in a perpetual shade of red. The man was smooth.

  “Save your bullshitting ass flirtin’ for some other little lass down here. I am on to you.”

  “Are you really? I don’t think so.” He pressed me tightly against him and whispered, “I want you to be on me.” I shivered at his nearness. I was a damn pathetic mess.

  “Tell me besides trying to bite guys heads off what do you do for fun?”

  “I like to have barbecues where I roast their nuts on a spit.” My biting words were having the opposite effect on this ass. Placing his forehead on mine he said in a whisper, “I am looking forward to your spit on my nuts,” I flushed in outrage and tried to head butt him, but he moved out of the way.

  “Behave, baby, and I promise I will too.” He said as he caressed my back and I knew his ass was lying. As soon as the dance was over I tried to get away, but he had one more thing to say to me.

  “Tomorrow we are going out on a date, so be prepared. I have two weeks to enjoy and I will be enjoying them with you, cowgirl.” His hand caressed my cheek with such tenderness and sensuality. “And one more thing, I forgot to say how beautiful you look tonight.” David slid his finger across my lips and I purred. He gave me a knowing smile, and it pissed me off.

  I turned and huffed away. “Asshole!” I could hear him laughing in a deep timber. Great his laugh was hot too, what a jerk.

  My mother gave me a small smile and I shook my in anger and marched away to my sister Christine at least she was on the same page as me. She had enough of bossy men.

  Chapter 3:

  David

  My little ruffian was a cutie. I wanted to smack her ass and kiss her lips. There was nothing I could do to fight the feelings she was bringing out in me, her feisty little ass. The rest of the evening I danced with my sister and then stood around talking all of cowboys about updating their cattle data reporting systems and had several interested in my companies programming systems. I went to sleep that night deciding how I was going to play this. Evelyn was a stubborn little thing that told me that in no uncertain terms that she preferred cowboys. I was going to learn to be a cowboy. Not that I was going to live here, but I was going to give her two weeks to decide if she could compromise if I could.

  After waking up at five and deciding to work for two hours, I called my assistant and had her working non-stop, so I could extend my vacation and spend it with the lovely Evelyn. When I got downstairs, her mother was cooking. “Good Morning Mrs. Elliot. Do you always cook so early?” Surprised that she would be up so early after a late night.

  “As it happens I am a little late on getting it started. Ben, Jr and the rest of the hands have to be out working, so I like to make sure they are well fed.” What? I thought that shit they showed in the movies and the TV shows was full of shit, but here is June Cleaver cooking up meals at the ungodly hour.

  “I smell coffee, is there any for me?” I could really use some since I couldn’t get her off my mind. It wasn’t until my body gave into fatigue that I actually fell asleep.

  “Absolutely, what would you like in it?” She stopped working on breakfast and turned to pour me a cup.

  “Mrs. E, don’t do all that. I can make my own. Thank you though, you husband is a lucky man. Is there any more beautiful and sweet women like you around?” I smiled at her causing her to blush.

  “Hey, buddy move along and find your own. This one is taken.” Ben Sr. came up and pushed me aside before he took her in his arms and bent her down and kissed the shit out of her. Damn by the time he lifted her up she was dazed and he gave her a nice smack on the ass, and turned to get the plates.

  “I got two daughters. Although, I think Christine is more up your alley.” He said as he set the plates on the counter. That was when I felt her behind me.

  “Yeah, well I am not going to lie, my interest is in the other one.” I could hear her quick intake of breath as she gasped.

  “Yes, my feisty beauty I am talking about you.” I turned to her with a smile and a “Good morning!” Damn this is what she looked like when she woke up. I would be fortunate to wake up to that gorgeous face every morning.

  “Please, spare me city boy. Mom, I am going for a ride into town this morning. Do you need anything?” I was coming with her whether she liked it or not. She was a natural beauty and I am sure she had all the guys in town wanting her. I heard rumors that she scared off most men, the ones she didn’t she dated and one she even had gone away to college with, but within the month she was back home. I wanted to know what her deal was and I wanted it only from her mouth.

  “Sure I could use a few ingredients. I will make a list. Give me a minute.” Mrs. Elliot walked to a kitchen drawer and pulled out a piece of a paper and pen with the quickness. The woman was fast, I wondered if she was a morning person who got tired by noon and was done for the day, but I’d seen her at dinner several times and she hadn’t slowed down even a little.

  “Don’t worry mom, I am not going yet. I want to eat and brush Candy.” She stopped and went back to cooking. Wow what a wife. I wonder if Evie here would be like that, hell no. She would probably tell me to go fuck myself. I turned to look at her and said, “So baby, are you going to cook me breakfast in the mornings?”

  “Drop dead!” She stormed out of the room and I shrugged.

  “You got your hands full, son. She is a trial in a half, but she is a sweetheart underneath.” He shook his head before grabbing his wife’s ass. Damn the man couldn’t keep his hands off her for one minute.

  “Yeah the girls are complete opposites even though they got enough attitude for ten women. Just like the boys though, one of the girls likes living on the ranch and the other wants to run as far from it as she can.”

  “Just so you know I am not giving up on her. I may be thirty four and she’s twenty, but I want her. I just have to convince her that she wants me too.”

  “You are going to have a hell of a time doing it and if you can stick to it, I am sure you will be happy. And she isn’t twenty, she just turned nineteen a couple of months ago. ” He shook his head at me as his wife handed us both a plate of food. Only nineteen she’s a fucking kid, but I wasn’t going to be swayed.

  “Thank you Mrs. Elliot.” I took a seat at the table just as she came back in. “By the way, there is no if. Sir, I am sure of
my course.” I wasn’t going to give up until I had no chance at all.

  “Do you know how to ride a horse, Mr. Montgomery?” She looked at me with tension in her eyes.

  “Since, I lived in the city most of my life and rarely saw a horse, the opportunity passed me by. Why babe? You going to teach me? That’s so sweet of you.” Her dad winked at me. Hey, I needed to get in with her anyway I could.

  Evelyn

  “Fine city boy, you want to learn how to ride a horse. I will show you. Let’s see what you got. After I come back from the store, I come and get you” I said, as I took a bite of my food. I liked to eat and if he didn’t like it, good then I will lose him faster. I wanted him to see the real me, so he would go running. I wasn’t meant to be a city man’s wife. A strange idea popped into my head, maybe we could be lovers, hell that sounds like a great idea. If he keeps looking at me like that it may just work. Who am I kidding? I wasn’t that type of girl.

  “Going after we come back from the store will work perfectly.” He said confidently, as he finished off the last of the food on his plate.

  Did he think he was coming with me to the store? “I said I was going to the store, not you.”

  David gave me a look that said don’t play that game with me. He put down his fork and looked me right in the eyes and said calmly, “Babe, I said I am going with you. I don’t want any of those cowboys trying to steal my girl while I am just sitting here. Understood? Now finish your food so we can go.” He stood up and took the plate and put it in the sink. He started washing it when my mom swatted his hand. “Relax David, you are a guest here.” Abashed the city boy came back to the table to enjoy his coffee as he continued to stare at me.

  “Not for long, it seems.” My dad said with a shrug and laughed into the glass of milk he brought to his mouth. I don’t know what the hell he meant by it, but he seemed to think it was funny.

  Chapter 4:

  David

  We left the house and got to the truck when she tried to do the driving. I stopped her and pinned her lightly against the car door. “Babe, when I am around, I do the driving and you sit in the passenger seat, looking pretty.” I took the keys from her hand and bent down to sneak a quick peck on her lips. Big mistake, I was like a shark at the scent of blood, I was frenzied. She didn’t know how to quite handle my level of insanity right now. My hands pinned hers above her head as I took her mouth again. I didn’t want to stop. If it was not for the sound of a vehicle driving by, I would have been lost.

  Damn for a woman who scared off men, they must have not kissed her. Thank to fucking god. I pulled away and looked at the disheveled Evie, “You good baby?” She looked a bit stunned as she rubbed her lips. Then she was back.

  “Don’t call me that! I am not your baby.” She jumped into the passenger seat pissed off, like she wasn’t a hundred percent in that kiss, but her ass had been all over me. “Don’t kiss me again David. I don’t want to be anything to you.” I was trying to control the pissed off feeling I was getting. Of all the chicks I have tossed to the side this one wants to play hard to get.

  “Listen Evelyn, I don’t know what hang ups you got. I know I got my own, but I am going to tell you one thing is for sure, you are mine.” I started the truck, trying to calm down. I was normally a laid back kind of guy who didn’t care for confrontation. Yet this girl is itching for a fight. One that she wasn’t going to win.

  “Whatever city boy,” was all the response I got from her. When we got into town I parked in the town’s only grocery store parking lot. Which had space for about twenty cars, max. It was weird to be here in small town, America. In Chicago this would almost be considered a convenience store, it was that small. I guess my surprise was clear on my face when she snapped off, again on my ass.

  “If you don’t like my home town and its small ways you can go back to your precious city.” Damn this woman was in love with this place and a hate for the city.

  “Baby, I am not going anywhere for two weeks. Also I am not disgusted by it. It’s just so different from the usual. Do you ever go into the heart of Dallas?”

  “Not really, I only went there for dinner with the family and my ex-boyfriend and I used to live there when I tried college out there.” She lived with her boyfriend. What the fuck? I can tell her parents are very open minded, but she was what seventeen or eighteen at the time? I had a lot of nerve. If I got my way they were going to be having another wedding soon.

  “You lived with a man.” It wasn’t a question, it was a statement of pure disbelief and anger.

  “No I didn’t. I said we lived here, but I stayed at a dorm and he was living at his fraternity.” She tried to pass it off as nothing, but I could tell she was upset.

  “You are beautiful baby, whatever happened between you was for the best because now you got me.” I smiled down at her. She laughed and shook her head. Now talk about beauty, her laugh was alluring and had done a number on my untried heart. We walked into the store and everyone was eying us, like it was weird for us to be together. She kept introducing me as Ryan’s brother-in-law and it was starting to piss me off. I know we just started this relationship, so we needed to know each other before she felt comfortable to call me her boyfriend/fiancé. Hell, she hadn’t even agreed to it, not that I was giving her a choice. I tolerated it, until we ran into this really ridiculously handsome cowboy. I wasn’t next to her when he approached, I happened to go grab some pasta and was on my back.

  “Hells bells, if it is not my first girlfriend, little fiery Evie.” He actually picked up and hugged and I was ready to break his jaw. The thought that this fuck took her virtue made me angry. I know high school fucks are constant, well not for me it wasn’t, but for most it was a lousy fast fuck several times a day.

  “Oh my, how are you? I haven’t seen you in like forever.” I listened, as she cheerfully greeted him. I was ready to fight when he said, “Well I just moved back, can you believe it I have been gone for nearly ten years. I am on break and visiting my aunt and uncle and since your sister-in-law moved out I am staying there.”

  “Hey baby, who is this?” I tried to act calm, it was obvious that they hadn’t seen each other since they were kids which means nothing went on with them, but I didn’t like the way they were smiling at each other.

  “David this is J.R. Smith, his aunt and uncle own the bakeshop.” Then she turned to fuckface and said, “This is David Montgomery, Ryan’s brother-in-law.” This J.R. character was smart because he knew not to push it. “Actually, I am her man. So it was nice to meet you, bud. Come on Evelyn.”

  “I’ll see you around.” He waved after Evie and she replied, “Can’t wait.” I growled as I paid for the groceries. I know I had no reason to be a jealous prick, but her ass was smiling too much at this fuck. I didn’t talk to her all the way back to the house because I didn’t want to go off and sound like the crazy fuck like I was feeling. I didn’t know I had a crazy, jealous, possessive ass living inside of me. Once we got back I carried the groceries inside and started to walk up the stairs, when she asked, “Do you still want to go riding”

  “Sure babe, let me go change” I said with a smile, as I came back down the stairs and gave her a little peck on the cheek. I wanted her to know that we were good, I just wasn’t. I felt insane and needed to try to handle the craziness that was consuming me.

  Evie

  Oh, shit this man is something else. What am I going to do? He doesn’t seem like he is going to give up any time soon. My resolve is weakening by the second. I want him more than I ever wanted anyone else.

  When he kissed me I wanted to climb on top of him. It was the best kiss I had ever had and I know that if he continued I would be putty in his hands.

  “Come on then. We want to get out before the sun hits its peak.” I could feel his eyes on me as I walked away. It just made it plainer to me that he was not the one. I know his type, I have dated his type before, and look where that got me, living back at home scared to follow my dreams. Enou
gh I need to get over what Kevin did to me, its life and it isn’t always fair. City boys don’t live by the same code of honor as most country boys. It doesn’t help that the women are so willing to be bad in the city. Here you have a reputation to protect and are less likely to be promiscuous.

  “Okay baby,” I hated when he called me that. The feelings it evoked were mixed, a bit of excitement and an unhealthy dose of bitterness.

  In the stables my father already saddled up the horses for us. I was giving him, Rodeo. He used to be a wild stallion, but he was getting on in years and wasn’t as rough as he used to be. As much as I wanted to scare David away, I didn’t want to kill him. Stacy would be upset and that would upset Ryan. I could have gave him one of the female horses, but for some reason I didn’t want the playboy riding another female. Crazy that I was hit with such a silly reaction since I was sending him packing, but there it was.

  “These are ready to go. You two have fun out there and my little sweet, don’t kill the boy.” My dad winked at me like he knew I was up to no good as he walked out of the stables. He always supported my antics. My parents have a way of guiding us quietly and helping us make our own way. I am even thinking about going to school again somewhere rural or starting online because of their support.

  “Thanks dad. Come on Montgomery, time for you to get on up.” Those were the wrong words to say to this pig.

  “Too late babe. You have kept me up.” He winked at me with that sexy smile that made his words all the more powerful.

  “Oh well, you best find a way to get someone else to stable you because it won’t be me ever.”

  He came around to where I was standing in between the horses and said, “Evie, beautiful Evelyn, you will be the one to handle him and settle him down for the night, because it’s you and no one else. Got that, babe? I have needs and normally I am never overcome by them, but babe all I can think about is mounting you.” I tried to control the shaking that started to take over my voice.