Reviews for Husbands on Horseback

The average rating for Husbands on Horseback based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-08-24 00:00:00 Darren Becker 4.0 stars for the story by Diana Palmer

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-10 00:00:00 Bob Smith emotional cheating + OGRE+ Virgin heroine + marriage on paper + unplanned pregnancy + divorced hero who still loves ex-wife + ex-wife is a whore ----------------------- Husbands on Horseback: Paper Husband (Diana Palmer) His wife had run out on him ten years before, and he'd never wanted to marry anyone else since the divorce. ========== "I wanted my wife all the time, did I ever tell you? She taunted me and made me crazy to have her, so that I'd do anything for it. But I wasn't rich enough to suit her. My best friend hit it big in real estate and she was all over him like a duck on a bug. I don't think she ever looked back when she left me, but I didn't sleep for weeks, wanting her. I still want her, from time to time." ========== "What makes you think you're such a prize, Hank? You're years too old for me in the first place, and in the second, what sane woman would want to marry a man who's still in love with his ex-wife?" ========== "You little cheat," he accused. "You've had a crush on me for years, and I've tolerated it. It amused me. But this isn't funny. This is low and deceitful. I'd think more of you if you admitted that you put your father up to it." ========== "It will be a pleasure not to have to rescue you from half a dozen disasters a day." ========== "I don't want Betty to see how badly she hurt me, or how much I still want her. I might be tempted to try and break up her marriage, and that's not the sort of man I want to be." ========== "An annulment will spare you any hint of scandal afterward," he continued. "You can get your degree and find someone to spend your life with. Or part of it," he added with a mocking smile. "I don't think anybody has illusions about marriage lasting until death these days." ========== "Listen, honey, the streets are full of prime women, if I'm so inclined." ========== The memory of Betty in his bed had tormented him ever since the divorce, despite the ecstasy Dana had given him that one night they'd had together. ========== The years rolled away and he was hungry for this woman who'd teased him and then taken him over completely. ========== With her husband watching, she reached up and kissed him full on the mouth, taking her time about it. She laughed softly when he didn't draw back. She could feel the tension in him, and it wasn't rejection. He hated having her know how he felt, but he couldn't resist the urge to kiss her back. He did, thoroughly. His skill must have surprised her, because ========== He blinked. For the space of seconds he'd kissed his ex-wife, Dana had gone right out of his mind. He felt guilty. ========== He felt trapped between two women, one whom he wanted to the point of madness and the other who'd discarded his heart and now seemed to want him again�despite her husband. ========== "never would have married you in the first place except that I felt sorry for you." ========== "And there's the way you feel about your ex-wife," she returned. He stared at her blithely. "Yes. There's Betty." ========== Betty had walked in and taken him over, without a struggle. ========== He still loved her. It was impossible not to know it. He might have enjoyed sleeping with Dana, but even so, he'd never shown any great... ========== He sighed inwardly. Talk about throwing gold away in favor of gloss! Some men just didn't know their luck. ========== He'd lived with her for two years, ached for her for ten more, and he'd never known the sort of person she really was until he became involved with Dana. Now he could see the real difference between the two women.