A Christmas Baby For The Cowboy (Cowboy Country Book 8) by Deb Kastner

Author:Deb Kastner [Kastner, Deb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Small Town & Rural Area, Cowboy & Western Romance, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Clean & Wholesome, Cowboy Country Series, Serendipity Texas, Rodeo Rider, Dark Secrets, Family & Domestic Life, Christmas Holidays & Celebration, Christmas Time, Holiday Whimsy, Festive Season, Winter Weather
Publisher: Love Inspired; Original edition
Published: 2018-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Cash surveyed himself in the mirror, brushing a piece of imaginary lint off the shoulder of the best burgundy-colored chambray shirt he owned. He narrowed his eyes on his reflection, thoughtfully appraising himself before straightening his cowboy hat, which he’d brushed clean the night before.

His gut churned, and he swallowed back the burn in his throat.

He didn’t know why he was putting this much effort into his appearance. In general, he rarely gave a thought to what he wore or how he looked. And it wasn’t as if he was going before a judge or anything.

Not yet, anyway.

Why was today different? What did it matter how he was dressed? Yet some unnamed emotion urged him to do whatever he could to look his best.

Part of it, he privately admitted, might have to do with Alyssa. She’d be the first one to see him today. Her natural, unassuming beauty had caught his eye more times than he could count. What would it feel like if she noticed him as more than the man she had won in an auction, a man who had been nothing but trouble for her?

But that was dangerous thinking, and there was no way he would go there.

He couldn’t.

Alyssa was an incredibly thoughtful, sensitive woman and deserved the very best in life, including an honorable, straight-as-an-arrow Christian husband with whom to build a stable, loving family.

Everything he was not, in other words.

Alyssa had a quiet strength about her—another attractive quality, and one of many. He still couldn’t believe she was willing to stand by him during one of the biggest crises of his life.

One of them.

Despite his best efforts to the contrary, his thoughts flashed to Aaron, and the whole reason he’d been involved with Sharee in the first place. He would never have imagined that what started out as two friends fighting over a girl they didn’t even know would have such long-lasting consequences.

Unwanted memories washed over him as he recalled every detail of that fateful night when Aaron had gotten behind the wheel of his car and had driven off after having far too much to drink. How he had missed a stop sign and had crashed headlong into a semi. The single blessing, if one could call it that, was that the doctors had said Aaron had died instantly, with no suffering.

But all those memories brought Cash right back to the present and his relationship with Alyssa. He needed to tread very carefully where his friendship with her was concerned.

Aaron’s death was the main reason he had to nip his attraction to Alyssa in the bud, even more than Cash knowing she deserved better than him.

He couldn’t be with her.

Not now.

Not ever.

If he was dressing to look his best today, it was to demonstrate to Sharee, however subconsciously, that he had his act together.

That he was responsible and had what it took to be a good father to their daughter.

Even if in truth, he didn’t.

When he’d first discovered he was going to

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