Billionaire Cowboy's Wedding Crasher - Hope Moore

Prologue

Previously at the end of Billionaire Cowboy’s Runaway Bride…

Levi Tanner watched his brother Cole dancing with his soulmate, Tulip. The wedding had been attended by a large number of friends and family here at the main ranch, among the beautiful landscaping that Tulip had done. Levi stood near the outer edge of the dance floor, observing, like he liked to do. And at the table on the other side of the huge turquoise ceramic pot of flowers was the table where Tulip’s mother and some of her friends were sitting and enjoying themselves.

“That Tulip Michelle is just the most beautiful bride I have ever seen, Mira.”

“Why, thank you, Beulah Anne. I was thinking the very same thing. If any of those horrible tabloid people are here, she will take all their readers’ breath away in that dress. And my new son-in-law isn’t shabby himself. Those Tanner men do have the looks, don’t they?”

“You are right about that. You are going to have some gorgeous grandbabies.” Beulah Anne cocked her blue-haired head and met Levi’s gaze that had momentarily drifted to the ladies’ table. She smiled. “That Levi is a showstopper, that one.”

She winked at him; he tipped his head and then immediately put his gaze somewhere else.

Tabloids. The mere mention of the creepy reporters who liked to stalk them had him surveying the wedding-goers. They’d backed off Tulip and Cole after the flashy show Tulip had put on for them that night she’d said to heck with them and proposed to Cole at the gate, in full view of God and everyone. The videos had trended online as the Runaway Bride Gets Her Man and she had succeeded in turning the tide on the bad news that Shelly had tried to bury them under. Tulip’s business had flourished after the proposal went viral. And, all in all, the world was all rosy for them, though she swore that soon they would be able to settle down and have a normal life because she and Cole were going to be blissfully happy and to tabloids that was really boring.

He thought she was living in a dream world, because the tabloids weren’t known for letting go of a good thing. And Tulip had turned out to be a reader magnet. She and Cole together, being all smoochy, smoochy gave them heart palpitations. Levi was happy for his brother, he really was, but the media was not something he would ever embrace.

His thoughts hit a snag as his gaze landed on a beautiful brunette with a shapely figure and her startlingly blue eyes slammed into him. He felt as if he’d been burned by a blue flame. Their gazes collided, tangled, and then she turned and mixed into the crowd on the other side of the dance floor. He just stood there, stunned, feeling as though his world had just collided with a meteorite.

He moved from his position on the outskirts of the party into the throng as the music to the bride and groom’s dance neared the end. He searched, feeling almost frantic to catch a glimpse of her before something happened and she disappeared out of his life forever. Several people called his name; he nodded but kept moving.

Beck McCoy from Stonewall, another happily married man of recent days, called his name and tipped his hat. They often used Beck’s Learjet charter service to travel these days as commercial flights were harder and harder to deal with. Bret had flown in from his bull-riding event using McCoy Charters just so he could get to the wedding on time, and he’d fly out later tonight in order to be back for tomorrow’s nationally televised event.

“You look like you’re looking for a woman,” Beck said, not holding him up.

“Yeah, about five foot four or five, brunette, with amazing eyes. Did you see her pass by here?”

Beck’s lip hitched upward. “Can’t say that I did. But then, I had my eyes on that sweet little blue-eyed blonde.” He nodded toward his wife, who danced on the edge of the floor with a small girl. They were laughing and happy, and he could see why Beck didn’t see anyone in the room but his wife.

Just then, he saw her. A camera lifted in her hand as she snapped several shots of Cole dipping Tulip to the end of the wedding song and then planting a long, deeply involved kiss on his bride.

The blue-eyed beauty kept snapping photos—not like a normal partygoer would take a few; this