Taming the Montana Millionaire

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Author: Teresa Southwick
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The thing was she’d gone on about why she was starting the program. Raising her younger siblings after her mom’s death. Being part of the community. Bending over backward to get the teen meeting spot right.
    Her earnestness was daunting. It seemed pure, but he’d had a costly lesson in misjudging women. A mistake he wouldn’t repeat. Still, he just couldn’t bring himself to tell her the whole truth of his offer to help. Since he wasn’t getting out of Thunder Canyon without a driver’s license, he had to persuade Haley to give him a chance. He’d prove himself trustworthy and indispensable, then break the news about community service. It was a good plan and there was no reason to doubt that he’d achieve his objective.
    Sales were his business and women found him charming. Mostly. Because there were so few exceptions, they were memorable. There was the girl in college who could give lessons in sales. She’d made him fall for her and even propose. She’d insisted wedding should come before bedding but she wouldn’t feel right about marrying him until she paid off a large debt—medical bills from her father’s open heart surgery.
    Marlon knew now he hadn’t been thinking with his head when he wrote her name on a check with a lot of zeroes and handed it over. It was the last time he saw her.
    His most recent charm-resistant woman was the judge who’d revoked his license for thirty days. Her Honor just didn’t understand the need for speed on the empty, open highway and how it cleared a guy’s head. And he was a guy with a lot on his mind.
    He’d found his community service. Unfortunately it was for another woman who didn’t seem to get his charm. He could go to the next organization on the court’s list, but Haley Anderson’s turndown had tapped into his mother lode of stubborn. He was going to change her mind. And the prospect was more entertaining than he would have expected.
    Marlon saw Haley’s old, beat-up blue Ford truck go slowly by The Hitching Post, pull around the corner and into the parking lot behind ROOTS. There was a refrigerator in the truck bed and he got an idea that might solve his problem.
    He grinned. It was time to amp up the charm.
    He left his apartment and walked down the wooden stairs, leaving by the back entrance to avoid going through the bar and grill. The breakfast and lunch rushes were over and the place sounded pretty empty, but it was too easy to get pulled into a conversation. He was a man on a mission.
    He rounded the building, then walked down Main Street, turned right on Nugget Way and into the parking lot behind ROOTS. Haley was standing in front of the half-glass, half-wood door, unlocking it.
    â€œHi,” he said.
    She whirled around at the sound of his voice and pressed a hand to her chest. “You scared me.”
    â€œSorry.” The sound of his boots on the paved parking lot was loud enough to wake the dead. She must have a lot on her mind, too. “I thought you heard me.”
    She shook her head, then tucked a strand of hair that escaped her ponytail behind her ear. Earlier when she was painting, her hair had been twisted up and held with a comb thing. An image of that shiny brown silk loose around her shoulders flashed through his mind as the need to run his fingers through it banged around in his gut. He folded his arms over his chest to rein himself in. Distractions were not permitted to men on missions.
    She’d changed out of the earlier ratty jeans and oversize T-shirt into a red tab-front, collared shirt with a yellow horse and bridle above the words The Hitching Post on the breast. The shirt was tucked into the waistband of a pair of denims that hugged her curvy hips and thighs. Her big brown eyes assessed him warily. The expression reminded him of a potential client at a sales meeting, wondering what he wanted them to buy and how much it was going to cost.
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