Blood Ties a Broken Heart by Cassandra Hawke

Author:Cassandra Hawke [Hawke, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
ISBN: 9781784304577
Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
Published: 2015-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Ash’s heart still beat madly while his lungs struggled to get enough breath. He was furious at himself, Annie and Arden and that was a reasonable response, but he couldn’t justify why he was also angry at Rylee for not recognizing his daughter, for letting her ride and for being so damn reasonable about the whole bloody disaster—her injured horse, his daughter’s unforgivable transgression and him for being so damn blind.

His heart had almost exploded with terror at the sight of his daughter being carried off at a mad gallop. In his mind, he could see Julie clinging desperately to the neck of the bolting horse in the same manner. Her frantic screams for help unanswered as he and Arden had failed to catch up to her and the bolting horse before it had charged a six rail fence, baulked, crashed into the railings then thrown Julie over its head. She had never regained consciousness.

Shame had seared his soul in the face of Lilli’s accusation that he let Arden do it. He castigated himself for being so blind, so loyal to his baby sister. He had spent so many of his formative years protecting her from their stepmother’s dislike. How did one just stop doing that?

His eight-year-old daughter’s allegations were a childish echo of Rylee’s. He didn’t know what to say to her. How could he defend himself to his child and punish her for what he had condoned. Oh God, what a bloody mess I’ve made of everything.

No wonder Rylee was so angry with him. He hadn’t listened to her before or more recently. He had brushed her concerns aside. Again and again he had put Arden first and now he was reaping the rewards—betrayal, lies and lost love.

He didn’t know what to say to Rylee—the woman he loved. The woman whose integrity and trust he had questioned and betrayed. He thought of the day ten years ago when he had gone to the stables to find Arden, and had then been discovered by Rylee and Aileen Jones holding a bottle full of performance enhancing drug and an empty syringe. The immediate assumption had been made that he was the one doing the injecting, and even though he had just at that moment snatched the stuff off his sister, he had let them believe it was him to save Arden’s equestrian dream. He knew he’d looked guilty that day and even felt it, but that was nothing on his guilt now, riding a few meters in front of his traumatized and confused daughter. Then he had been innocent—today he was not. His face burned with the shame.

His shame turned to rage as he rode—rage against the sister he loved. Who he had taken the rap for. The sister, who had lied to him then, and was lying to him still.

The horse danced underneath him, soaking up the fury that trembled through his body. He tried to calm himself, but found it impossible. Last night he had defended Arden and practically called Rylee a liar.

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