Corbetts5 - One Hot Forty-Five by B.J. Daniels

Author:B.J. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: ISBN 978-1-4268-4135-4
Publisher: Harlequin

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“LANTRY!” JUANITA WAS THE first to see him when he walked into the main house at Trails West Ranch. As usual, there was something cooking in Juanita’s big kitchen.

She clasped both of his hands. “I am so glad you’re all right. We have been so worried.”

“Thank you.” He followed her down the hall to the large living room with huge windows that looked out over the ranch. He hadn’t even stopped at his cabin, some distance from the main house, to clean up. He knew Shane had called the family and they were waiting for him.

They were. Everyone turned as he came in. His brothers Russell, Dalton and Jud and their wives, as well as his father and his father’s wife, Kate. The relief he saw in their faces made him feel guilty for making them worry. He felt responsible for at least some of this, given his chosen profession – and how callous he’d been about his clients and their exes.

“I’m fine,” he said to the crowd, his gaze settling on his father. Grayson smiled and nodded.

“We heard you’d been taken at gunpoint by a crazy woman,” Kate said and rushed to hug him. “We were so worried.”

“I’m fine, and Dede Chamberlain wouldn’t have harmed me.” His words surprised him in that he believed them to be true. Even as angry as she’d been at him.

“You’ll join us for dinner, won’t you?” Grayson asked. His father loved having his entire family at the ranch’s large dining-room table. That’s when he seemed the happiest.

But eating with his rambunctious family was the last thing Lantry could do right now. “Thank you, but I need to get a shower, a change of clothes and take care of some things.”

“Of course,” Grayson said amicably as he looped an arm around his son’s shoulders. “You probably need some time alone to take all this in. Juanita will save you some dinner. It’s just good to have you home.”

Home. Lantry didn’t think of Trails West Ranch or Montana as home. And yet he didn’t think of his condo in Houston as home, either. The only place he’d ever really felt at home had been the family ranch in Texas. But Grayson had sold that after marrying Kate and moved lock, stock and barrel to Montana.

“I just wanted you all to see that I’m fine,” he said, excusing himself.

As he left, he heard his brothers horsing around and their wives trying to intercede. Everything was back to normal with the Corbetts.

All of them except me, he thought as he drove down to his cabin by the creek. His father had ordered a half-dozen cabins built for his sons for when they visited Montana.

Now, with three of them married, houses were in various stages of construction on the ranch, with everyone still living in the cabins spread out in a half-moon shape some distance from the main house.

Lantry knew that even when his brothers’ houses were completed, they would spend most of their time at the main house.

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