A Cowboy to Trust by Lindsay McKenna

Author:Lindsay McKenna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-12-29T17:02:43+00:00

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 1

All Brandon Taylor wanted was to finish his small plate of delicious shrimp pot stickers, grab a bottle of champagne and sneak out of his brother’s wedding reception for a little while. Half hour tops.

He stood in the parklike backyard of the Taylor family ranch on this warm, breezy early September evening, behind a pillar wrapped in twinkling white lights and festooned with tiny red roses, eyeing the best route to escape. The wedding had started at six and though it was now only seven thirty, it felt like two in the morning. The ceremony had been a lot. Or maybe just a lot for him. The look on his brother’s face when his bride had started down the aisle had slammed Brandon in his chest. Had he ever seen Jordan look like that? Not just happy, not just proud, but as if he finally understood the meaning of life.

Then there were the vows. Goose bumps had unexpectedly trailed up Brandon’s arms when Jordan repeated his vows and then said some of his own, the reverence in his brother’s voice holding Brandon completely still.

“Dang,” their brother Dirk had whispered from where they’d stood to the side of their oldest brother. “Double dang,” Dirk’s twin, Dustin, had agreed, wonder in his voice. Their sister, Daphne, was on the other side, in the bridesmaid lineup, tears misting her eyes, but Daphne had always been a softie. Plus, she had an engagement ring on her finger and would be next to get married so, of course, she was a little emotional at a wedding. What Brandon’s excuse was for choking up, he had no idea.

Likely he was just happy for his big brother, a guy who’d always been a hero to Brandon. That was all.

Given the Taylor track record at marriage, Brandon hadn’t thought any of his four siblings would make lifetime commitments. But there had stood Jordan, vowing to love, honor and cherish Camilla Sanchez till death did them part. There had stood Daphne, whose problems with their thrice-married, controlling father were legendary in Bronco, also believing in forever with that diamond ring twinkling on her finger.

Brandon was truly happy for both siblings, but he knew one thing about love: it didn’t last. It just didn’t have a chance.

So, add all that to the hundredth time a wedding guest had said, “I bet you’re next, Brandon,” and he was ready for a breather. A cousin had even added, “Good golly, Brandon, aren’t you thirty-four? And still single? It’s high time you settled down.”

Brandon had politely smiled through it all until he just couldn’t take it and had snapped at another cousin, a know-it-all lawyer from Butte with a gold wedding band on his hand, “Statistics speak for themselves. No thanks.”

He’d gotten the stink eye from the cousin and a shaking tsk-tsk of the head from an aunt, and he’d been about to apologize for

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