Cold Creek Baby by Raeanne Thayne

Author:Raeanne Thayne [Thayne, Raeanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780373655533
Google: DMQjVRUdl0kC
Goodreads: 8854621
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Cisco gripped the top rail of one of the kitchen chairs so tightly that he could feel the slats digging into his palms.

He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to block out the image of her in Bowman’s arms. His chest felt like it was on fire and he had an insane urge to overturn every single chair in the kitchen, break all the china, grab the entire kitchen cabinets off the wall and hurl them to the floor.

He took a deep breath, working fiercely to calm himself. He had no right to be jealous. He wanted Easton to be happy. He hated thinking about her living here alone with no one to laugh with or share her life.

She had suffered great loss and pain, first her parents and then her aunt and uncle who had been surrogate parents. She deserved a good man like Bowman, someone free to take care of her, to look out for her, to make her smile.

She lived alone here at the ranch, throwing everything she had into it. He figured it was time she took a little joy for herself.

Trace Bowman appeared to besotted. He was the sort of man who would cherish a woman like Easton. He wouldn’t try to stamp out her independence, the strong, courageous traits she had learned from Jo and Janet, her own mother.

If the Pine Gulch police chief could give Easton all the things in life she deserved, Cisco needed to just get the hell out of the way and let him.

He looked around the kitchen, familiar and comforting. The silly little clock above the stove Guff had brought back for Jo from a stock trip to Denver. The battered iridescent plastic tumblers he remembered winning at the county fair one year when he was maybe fifteen that Jo had insisted on displaying as proudly as if they were bone china. The kitchen table, where he and the others had learned to laugh and share and become a family.

Whether she ended up with Bowman or somebody else, Cisco wouldn’t come back here after she married. How could he? The idea of seeing her settled, in love, round and glowing with another man’s child, would rip him apart.

So he would just head back down south and stay there this time. When he finally washed out and outlived his usefulness to the various agencies who used his skills, he would just buy a shack on some beach in Mexico and spend the rest of his life in flipflops and cutoffs, casting a line out for his dinner and trying to forget Cold Creek Canyon and home and Easton.

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