Big Sky Rancher by Carolyn Davidson

Author:Carolyn Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

IT SEEMED that the difficult part was in front of her, Jennifer thought after they arrived at home and it was time for her husband to show up for supper. For telling Lucas that their marriage was, in effect, null and void, over, as far as she was concerned, was going to create a real problem, one he would put all his energy into solving. One she was wishing with all her heart could be fixed with a simple solution. Lucas had found a place in her life and giving him up would not be easy, torn as she was between her independence and the fact that she had learned so quickly to love him. And for a moment she wavered.

And then she found that telling him wasn’t going to be difficult at all, for Lucas came home from the mine with his eyes flashing fire.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” he said, shouting at her from the doorway as he entered the kitchen.

“Cooking your supper.” It was, it seemed, the wrong thing to say, for the kitchen chair standing in front of him hindered his progress and he threw it across the room.

“I don’t need a smart answer, Jennifer. I want to know why you’re intent on making me a laughingstock in town.”

She turned to face him, suddenly aware of her precarious position. “I’m doing no such thing. I simply decided that if I’m going to be cleaning up and cooking for a man, I might as well get paid for it.”

He seemed stunned for a moment, his eyes widening, as if he could not believe what he’d just heard. And then he stalked across the room and she was trapped by the cookstove behind her and the raging male in front of her.

“You get paid. Probably more than you’re worth,” he snarled. “You get free room and board and you’ve got a roof over your head. What more have you earned since you’ve been here?”

She closed her eyes. Her importance to him was obviously at its lowest level. The man considered her as almost worthless, it seemed. In fact, if she understood his words as well as she thought she had, he was not happy with her performance as a wife.

She attempted to answer his challenge. “Not much, apparently, Lucas. Obviously, I haven’t done enough to even earn your respect.”

His fist clenched at his sides and then opened, and he rested his wide palms against his hips. “Lady, let me tell you something. If I didn’t respect you, you’d know it by now. I’ve respected your wishes, done whatever you wanted, ever since you got here. So don’t go giving me that claptrap about not respecting you.”

Ida got up from the rocking chair and headed for the kitchen door. “I think the baby and I will go take a walk while you finish putting supper together, Jennifer.” She let the screen door slam behind her as she paraded across the porch and down the steps.

“I think

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