Chapter 8
Joe glanced over at Roy as the cowboys stripped out of their dusty clothes for their welcome bath. This time, Roy joined them, wringing the water out of his shirt and pants before spreading them to dry in the sun. They weren’t exactly clean, but the river would have rinsed off most of the dust from riding drag.
Roy wasn’t hard to look at, either. He was slender, but his muscles were well-defined. Hadn’t he said he was on the swimming team in school? Maybe that was why he was so wiry and hard—that and the fighting he’d said he did. Joe tried not to stare as Roy stripped off his underwear and laid that beside his other clothing. After all, it wasn’t like any of them had anything the others hadn’t seen before. But it was different looking at Roy’s body. Joe felt his face flush as
