I could not help but think that I largely resembled my mother, just in a younger and slimmer version.Father and mother had met when mother was 19 and ...ather 23, and with the pictures I had seen of them as newly engaged, I could well understand that my mother had fallen "head over heels" in love with him.Down in the kitchen, Dad was just so ashamed, and tried really to lament;he was my father and the eldest, and felt he had used me purely sexual.I took the father and said that I was well aware. That was well within what Webb Hickson had schooled him, back when he first got his black horse from the Sioux.“Jeremiah, that hammer-headed black horse of yours will always be a damned outlaw and you better watch him close. He’s different from any horse I’ve ever seen. He’s as long winded as a cyclone, but he’s as mean as a momma grizzly, on his good days. Even on his bad days, he’s a better horse than all three of the horses I own ... put together.“And another damn thing while I’m talking. Ava had a boyfriend and so she didn’t know why she acted so shy around him, but whenever their eyes met as she looked up, her heart felt like it would stop beating. James had a tall slim figure. Although their work uniforms didn’t do much to flatter them, Ava could tell he looked after himself. His forearms were wrapped in tight cords of muscle that flexed whenever he moved to pick something up. He had a broad chest and shoulders, and Ava often found herself imagining him without his shirt. He. As excited as this was making him, Phil knew he couldn’t let this go any further. She had a boyfriend and was clearly drunk. “I’ve always kind of had a crush on you.” Her hand moved down to his thigh and clenched it. Phil’s heart started pounding. Marissa leaned into him and pecked him on the lips. “Do you think it would be bad if we slept together?” she asked. “I-I’m sorry Marissa, but we can’t. You have a boyfriend. I’m not going to be the one to come between you two. Plus you’re drunk.