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She shrugged. “I’m a rancher. I raise horses. It comes with the territory.” But he was right. The guys did owe her. She’d never been to California.
She’d gone to school at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, and she’d been to a number of other places in Texas, but her visits to other states had been limited to states near Texas and Florida, and mostly had to do with horses or the ranch. So getting to go to California would be a treat.
And what about you and Nate? Together for five days. And four nights. Just the two of you.
Friends with benefits? He admitted—almost—that he was trying to seduce you.
You’re asking for trouble.
Probably. But I don’t care.
“Finished arguing with yourself?”
“How did you know that was what I was doing?”
“Easy. All I had to do was look at your face. Should I or shouldn’t I? was written all over it.
“I was thinking, not arguing with myself,” she said loftily. “I’ll ask them.”
“Good. Let me know what they say.”
“About the hotel—”
“Don’t worry. You’ll have your own room.”
She barely stopped herself from saying, What if I don’t want my own room? Just as well she didn’t say it, though. The two of them becoming lovers was something she still had mixed feelings about. She wanted to. But there was a reason she’d friend-zoned Nate in the first place.
Nate Kershaw would be far too easy to fall in love with. And the last time she’d fallen in love with a player had been enough to last a lifetime. But even as she thought that, she admitted that while Nate might not have settled down, and who knew if or when he would, she could guarantee he wouldn’t be as bad as Warner Jarrett. No one could be.
When are you going to admit you want Nate?
She had no answer to that question. Because admission or no admission, she wanted him.
Chapter Thirteen
The flight from Whiskey River to San Diego only took a couple of hours. Damaris enjoyed Grandma K’s first trip on a private plane almost as much as she did. Damaris had flown in Nate’s trainer, which was the two-seater he took students up in. He’d even offered to teach her to fly but there was no way she could have fit that in with her responsibilities on the ranch. This was the first time, however, that Damaris had flown in a private jet.
Nate had asked another pilot who was thinking about joining the Devil’s Rock Airport crew to fly with them there and back. When Damaris had asked what the man was going to do while waiting to return he’d laughed at her. “It’s San Diego. I’m sure he’ll find something to do.”
Grandma K was as excited as a kid at the state fair. She’d flown before but not in a long while, and private plane travel was a whole ‘nuther ball game than traveling commercial. It was a while before she quit looking out the window long enough to pay attention to Damaris.
Grandma K looked at least ten years younger than her actual age. Her hair was a beautiful silvery gray, cut short and layered. When Damaris complimented her on her hair, she laughed. “I told Rosario not to give me an old lady cut.”
“It’s not. It’s very cute and stylish.”
“Thank you, dear.”
Grandma K didn’t act her age either, being very spry and upright. And sharp. “My boy’s always wanted to be a pilot. We had a small private airport not too far from where he grew up. He used to haunt that place any time he could get away. Even stowed away on a flight one time.”
Damaris could envision a young Nate doing something like that. “That sounds just like him. Did he get in trouble?”
“They made him clean the hangar but he was happy as a pig in slop as long as it had something to do with planes.”
“Nate hasn’t talked a lot about his family. I know his parents live in Corpus Christi, and that he has a brother and a sister, both younger than him, and they live in Texas. Kali owns a craft store and lives in San Antonio and Liam is a musician who lives in Austin. But that’s about it.” She should know more. As it was, she’d had to reach to remember his siblings’ names. Hell, she’d known Nate for how long now? It wasn’t as if they’d never talked about family before. Was it?
Grandma K was looking at her strangely. “He never said anything else?”
“About his family? No, why?”
