Summer Love_ A Steamy Small Town Romance Anthology - Piper Rayne Page 0,151

done. It didn’t really matter. She needed a distraction and Lord knew the alcohol hadn’t been doing it for her. Maybe some hot sex with a stranger might erase the memories, blow off some tension, and help her forget her life was a bit off the rails right now.

Colton Raines. Country music star and Piper’s brother. Everyone knew Colt, or thought they did, from the tabloids and television. He’d spent very little time in Granite Junction but was visiting his sister out at Redemption Ranch. Damn, he was hot. And temporary. A visitor in their town, and, with his busy schedule, would rarely come back. The perfect choice for an evening of hot, sweaty sex. Go big or go home.

She let what she hoped was a sexy smile cross her face and scanned his body in a slow perusal. “You think you can handle this?”

He pushed off the jukebox and sauntered over to her, a half-smile on his face that said he knew exactly how sexy he appeared. “I think I have a few moves.”

He held out his hand and she took it, letting him pull her against his firm body and into a slow, sexy sway to the song about coming closer and laying her down. She loved this song, had always fantasized about dancing to it with someone special, maybe having it mean something.

She never would have imagined dancing to it with Colt Raines, but he could fulfill her fantasy for one song…maybe one night. He certainly knew how to dance and hold a girl in his arms. She found herself softening against him, laying her head against his shoulder, breathing in his clean, male scent that ignited a slow burn deep inside.

The song ended and segued into another with a slow, sexy beat—one of her favorites. She hummed quietly with the music, then began singing the words under her breath.

“You love to sing,” he murmured, his breath tickling her ear.

She glanced up, his face still a little blurry from the alcohol she’d drunk. “I get points for enthusiasm if not for accuracy or being on tune. Not like you.”

She flushed, wishing she hadn’t said anything, hadn’t wanted to ruin the moment by admitting she knew who he was. She hoped it would get awkward. He stiffened but when she didn’t say anything else, he slowly relaxed.

He arched his eyebrow, studying her carefully. “Enthusiasm beats boredom any day. It’s nice seeing someone enjoy music like you do.”

She grinned. “Well, I have that in spades then. As long as my butchering your music doesn’t offend you.”

He shrugged. “Nope. Long as you enjoy it, I’m a happy guy. I live to please and all that jazz. Clearly you know who I am. I hope that won’t be a problem. I’m staying out at Redemption Ranch for a while. Friend of the family, sort of. Not working there.”

She laughed, her eyes crinkling with amusement. “Why would it be a problem? If Ty and the guys don’t mind you sitting around while they work hard on the ranch, that’s not my problem. You’re definitely not a cowboy or ranch hand.”

He frowned, looking offended at her words. “I’m on vacation. And besides, I’ve worked on ranches before. I can work a herd, even castrate the bulls, though that’s not a job I’d like to do again.” He gave a shudder and she laughed.

“It’s not that. It’s the way you look. You don’t walk like you ride a horse all day. And your hands. Clearly not a working man’s hands. And your boots.” She followed his gaze down to his black cherry, alligator leather Lucchese boots and snorted. “Poser.”

His eyebrow rose. “Do you know what these boots cost?”

“Doesn’t matter what they cost as long as you can muck out a barn with them.”

He looked horrified at the very thought. “These boots will never see the inside of a stable. They’re more for the stage.”

She rolled her eyes and shook her head. He pulled a hand off her waist and stroked it over the soft spot behind her ear and down her neck, the feel of calluses on the tips of his fingers sending a shiver down her body. He smirked at her reaction and she grinned.

“So you have calluses. They’re still not working man hands.”

He leaned back, cocking his head down at her. “I give up. What will it take to impress you?”

She blinked at him, sensing she had somehow pushed him a little too far with her teasing and she wasn’t quite ready