Cocky Cowboy: A Second Chance Romance (Cocker Brothers of Atlanta Book 3) by Faleena Hopkins

Author:Faleena Hopkins [Hopkins, Faleena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hop Hop Publications
Published: 2016-09-10T18:30:00+00:00

Jaxson

“No, you sit. You’re my guest,” I motion to one of the tall stools next to my kitchen island. The stove is embedded in it so she can stay nearby while I cook, right where I want her to be. I believe it’s my job to put her at ease.

She came here for rest.

I can give her that.

And I want her to feel safe with me.

Morning sun streaks in through the windows as I grab bacon, butter, Himalayan salt and a homemade, unsliced loaf of bread.

“What’re those green things?” Rachel asks when I set it down by her hand.

“Rosemary. She makes this with virgin olive oil. Fucking delicious.”

“Who does?”

Pulling out a cast-iron skillet, I turn up the gas stove and start separating the bacon to ready it. “Patty and Lou live up the street. He grows grains. She bakes bread.”

“Perfect combination,” Rachel smiles.

“They’ve been together thirty-one years last month. Never seen ‘em fight. But then again, I don’t live with ‘em.” A smirk flashes on my face and I glance to find Rachel staring at me like I’m a ghost.

I know the feeling.

Having her here without the sex clouding everything is feeling a little too good.

Like she’s always been here. Like my loner days are over and somehow I don’t mind.

Ignoring this feeling, I explain, “I buy as much from the locals as I can. We support each other. With Patty and Lou we just exchange bread for eggs and milk. Which they use to make more bread. Keeps going on like that.”

Rachel lazily watches me cracking eggs into a bowl to add a little milk and cream cheese to. She leans on her elbow and wistfully says, “In New York I don’t even know who lives right next door to me in the same apartment building.”

I mutter, “Sounds lonely.”

“You never know who they could be. A lot of crazies,” she explains.

On a shrug I disagree, “I tend to trust people until they show me otherwise. People usually rise to the occasion when you treat them like they will. If they don’t, I deal with them then.”

She watches as I lay the bacon side by side in the skillet, crackling oil shooting up. “Tell me what happened after I moved away from Atlanta.”

While the eggs wait until the last second to be cooked, I grab a serrated knife to slice the fresh bread and tell her the story of my childhood. I’m not a talkative man usually, my brothers would tell anyone that.

I don’t think Rachel would agree. We used to talk all the time about Dickens, Shakespeare and Tolkien, the books most kids our age thought were too ‘hard’ to read.

It doesn’t feel like a chore as I tell her, “Jett and I caused a lot of hell all the way until after we graduated. Oh, you probably remember him as Jerald. He’s Jett now. The two of us paved the way for Justin and Jason to have caution-tape strapped to their heads before they even made it to high school.

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