The Cowboy

CODY

We have three rules:

We never see each other’s faces. We don’t know each other’s names. We don’t say a word.

But at dawn when she steps out onto her private balcony over my work site, we show each other...everything.

She’s my Morning Girl, and the rules keep both of us safe.

BEA

Yeah, Cody’s got a lot of rules, and I have a few of my own. But the minute Cody walked into the bar where I work—I knew I’d break every last one of them. That’s why I can’t tell him I’m his Morning Girl. I’m head over heels for that broken-down cowboy, and he only wants one version of me.

I take what I can get from him: scraps of friendship and his eyes on me every morning, but soon the secrets and lies grow out of control, and the only thing I know for sure is I love him.