Love Under Two Outfitters by Cara Covington (the false prince series .txt) 📗



The Lusty, Texas Collection

Love Under Two Outfitters

[Siren Menage Everlasting: Cowboys Menage a Trois Romance, MFM, HEA]

Meeting Ian and Ken right after she realizes what she wants worries Alice. Does she see them, or just the possibility of a ménage?

Ian and Ken don’t wonder. Though they found her sooner than expected, they know Alice was meant to be theirs. All they have to do is convince her.

Alice knows she wants those two Kendalls, but she’s still worried that they’ll change their minds. A lifetime of somehow only drawing the attention of men who don’t really see her has a part of her waiting for the other shoe to drop.

But as they explore each other and the possibilities of a new business venture, and as she sees that between them, Ian and Ken not only see her, they need her, Alice dares to believe that a happy ending is in her future.

And when an old rival sets his sights on harming her lovers, Alice knows she’ll do anything to keep them safe.

Cara Covington is a Siren-exclusive author.

Length: 61,300 words

LOVE UNDER

TWO OUTFITTERS

The Lusty, Texas Collection

Cara Covington



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Love Under Two Outfitters

Copyright © 2019 by Cara Covington

ISBN: 978-1-64243-992-2

First Publication: September 2019

Cover design by Harris Channing

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Acknowledgements

Thank you to all my readers for continuing to call for more stories of Lusty, Texas. I’m grateful to each and every one of you for the time you give to these excursions of my imagination. I love hearing from you, as well. It’s my goal to answer every email. Your messages are the highlight of my day.

I’m especially grateful to the members of my readers group, The Lusty Ladies. You’re always there with the words of encouragement I need, just when I need them. Writing can be a lonely endeavor. How wonderful to know I have friends who cheer me on along the way.

Thank you to my admin, beta-reader, and tease-maker extraordinaire, Angie Buchanan Jones. I love you, Angie. I couldn’t do this without you.

I’m also grateful to beta reader Sandy Ebel. Sandy, your keen reader’s sense coupled with an amazing editor’s eye and a total love of reading are invaluable to me. Thank you for your time!

Huge thanks go to my editor, Devin, for keeping me honest, and showing me how I can do better. That is golden!

And my eternal gratitude to my publisher, Amanda Hilton, and the professional women and men at Siren-BookStrand. Thank you for continuing to believe in me, and for continuing to say “yes.”

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my husband, David. You continue to be my biggest fan, and I am grateful for that, for the freedom to keep on pursuing my dream.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Morgan Ashbury, also writing as Cara Covington, has been a writer since she was first able to pick up a pen. In the beginning, it was a hobby, a way to create a world of her own, and who could resist the allure of that? Then, as she grew and matured, life got in the way, as life often does. She got married and had three children, and worked in the field of accounting, for that was the practical thing to do, and the children did need to be fed. And all the time she was being practical, she would squirrel herself away on quiet Sunday afternoons and write.

Most children are raised knowing the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. Morgan’s children also learned the Paper Rule: Thou shalt not throw out any paper that has thy mother’s words upon it.

Believing in tradition, Morgan ensured that her children’s children learned this rule, too.

Life threw Morgan a curve when, in 2002, she underwent emergency triple bypass surgery. Second chances are to be cherished, and with the encouragement and support of her husband, Morgan decided to use hers to do what she’d always dreamed of doing—writing full-time.

Morgan has always loved writing romance. It is the one genre that can incorporate every other genre within its pulsating heart. Romance showcases all that humankind can aspire to be. And, she admits, she’s a sucker for a happy ending.

Morgan’s favorite hobbies are reading, cooking, and traveling—though she would rather you didn’t mention that last one to her husband. She has too much fun teasing him about having become a “Traveling Fool” of late.

Morgan is blessed to have two children, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. She lives in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a nine-pound Morkie dog who thinks he’s a German shepherd, and her husband of forty-seven years, fellow retiree and aspiring author, David.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LOVE UNDER TWO OUTFITTERS

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

LOVE UNDER

TWO OUTFITTERS

The Lusty, Texas Collection

CARA COVINGTON

Copyright © 2019

Chapter One

Alice Benedict finished reading the plaque beneath the framed photograph and then looked down into the display case in front of her.

She used a single finger to push her reading glasses a bit higher onto her nose. It was a habit she’d had forever. While she was certain there was a fix for this constant little annoyance that involved taking the time to have her glasses adjusted, doing that would become, in her mind, yet one more capitulation that would serve as