Cowboy's Barmaid: A Small Town Military Romance (Lucky Flats Ranchers Book 2) by Piper Sullivan

Author:Piper Sullivan [Sullivan, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PS
Published: 2017-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Paige finally flopped down on the bed in her room; everything about this place suddenly overwhelmed her. She felt like Belle from Beauty and the Beast and Hunter was the Beast, forcing her to stay against her will. The only problem was that he wasn’t an unsightly hairy animal, he was a handsome man, and the six years that passed since he disappeared out of her life, had done nothing to him. He looked just as he did when she first saw him and unlike the happy ending in fairy tales, her ending was going to be anything but happy. Hunter had had already paid up her debt and when they arrived at the airport she used some of the money to buy a few new items of clothing for both her and Joshua, and with no means to pay him back; she was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Hunter was so right, she thought, she was foolish to run blindly into such an arrangement, not knowing who the other man was. God, if she knew it was him, she would have run in the complete opposite direction. What made it worse, was that he now knew the truth about Joshua, and she could already see the custody battles that awaited her once he decided to claim his place in her son’s life.

She must have drifted off eventually, because when she woke up it was already dark outside, in a panic she launched off the bed and rushed out the room an down the stairs, and that’s when Joshua came running to her, flinging his arms around her leg.

“Mommy, guess what!? Mr. Hunter said I can have a pony!” her son exclaimed excitedly.

“Oh is that so?” she said kneeling down next to him without sparing Hunter a glance, “what did I teach you about taking gifts from strangers?”

It started, Hunter was going to buy her son with gifts and luxuries, things she would never be able to afford, if she was going to have to live the next month paying off her debt so she could be free she was going to have to put a stop to this.

“He’s not a stranger, he said he’s your friend and my friend,” Joshua said with a pouty lip.

“I know sweetheart, but how will you take care of the pony, we are only visiting here,” she tried again.

“I told Joshua he will always be welcome to visit here, so the pony can stay here for now,” Hunter interrupted.

Paige took a deep breath and stood up, trying her best to stay calm, “I’ll think about it, right now he needs to go bathe and get ready for dinner and bed.”

Hunter nodded then smiled down at Joshua, “I’ll show you the cattle tomorrow champ,” he said and ruffled his hair, before leaving her and Joshua to themselves.

Much later, Hunter stood in the study contemplating the situation. The last person he expected to ever see again was Paige. If it wasn’t for her mother’s interference back when he met her, they would have been good together.

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