The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush Quotes

“Grace.” I tipped my hat to her. “Where’s Owen?” I expected her to tell me that Emma was looking after him. “Day camp.” “Camp? Since when?” “Since Emma left.” My brain fuzzed out. “Left?” “She didn’t call you?” “No.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“Three damn days I hadn’t heard from Emma.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“I have my own money. I’ve been working at a horse ranch since graduation.” With a man I’m in love with. A man I have to leave.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“I’m sorry, Walker. I’ll get a ride. I’ll...walk. I need to see what he wants.” I pushed away from the table. “Please stay and eat. I’ll call you.” Next, I was walking out the door and acutely aware, Walker hadn’t followed me. He let me go.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“Holy shit, Emma. You’re still working with me. Are you going to just leave? Go with him?” “I don’t know. Darnell doesn’t want me.” I exhaled. “It’s my family, Walker. I love them.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“Our gazes locked as we came together, breathing, that terrifying awareness. Our lives were forever changed.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“I wasn’t sure I cared if I knocked her up at that point. I’d fall to my knees and beg her to marry me. Take care of my kid. And her. My Emma. This cowboy’s forbidden crush had turned me inside out.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“I haven’t been with anyone since you walked into my classroom.” He kept his eyes on me for an extra second to get that point across. “I stopped paying attention to my supply. I didn’t realize I was out.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“Drive me to your house.” She took my hand and placed it on her breast. “I guarantee, I’ll end up in your bed.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“Um. This is a date, right?”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“Oh, sugar, I can give you a ride.” He flashed a wolfish grin. “Smooth and slow or rough and fast...however you like.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“My core sizzled. Anywhere. And I wanted him to take me...everywhere.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“Now they wanted me to come home which meant the money trough would get cut off any day.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“All of my professors were doctors, sweet older men, but they smelled like mothballs.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“Call me... And ten glorious digits followed. Game. On.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“Just you wait, Emmaline. I’m gonna rock your world.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush

“Finish up, everyone,” I ground out.”
― Deborah Garland, The Cowboy's Forbidden Crush