Austin
The truck rattles as I hit another pothole, cursing. This road is awful. The jolt sends pain up my ankle, and I grit my teeth, knuckles whitening on the steering wheel.
Cortland's face flashes in my mind - those piercing gray eyes narrowing as realization dawned. One minute, undressing me with that scorching gaze. The next, his features twisted into a sneer of disgust.
All because of those water rights Grandpa Carter gained in a poker game decades ago. A bitter laugh rises in my throat. Figures my family name would poison any chance at...what? Romance? Don't be ridiculous. This is Cortland Carter - a reckless philanderer with a God complex to match his chiseled jaw.
But still, that split-second hesitation when he recognized me... Part of me hoped there was more to him than meet
