Dakota Sunrise by Leah Brooke

Author:Leah Brooke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2019-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Carson waited with Sam until Deanna finished bathing Casey before clearing the last of the snow from the sidewalk and driveway and salting them.

He couldn’t stop glancing at the house, hoping to get a glimpse of Deanna or Casey.

Sam lifted the empty bucket and set it in the back of their truck, along with the shovel he’d been using. “Casey looked a little better after her bath.”

Carson sighed and turned away, carrying his own shovel to the truck bed. “I don’t want to fuck this up.”

Sam glanced at the house again before getting into the truck. “If we do, we’ll just have to fix it.”

Still irritated that she’d called Len instead of calling their cell phones, Carson got into the truck, slamming the door closed behind him. “I want to believe she’ll call us if she needs something. I hope like hell that we got that point through to her.”

Sam backed out and drove to the shed where they kept firewood stacked. “I hope so, too. If not, we will.”

He didn’t speak again until they pulled up in front of the shed and threw the truck into park with a hard sigh. “We have to.”

Carson understood his friend’s frustration. “We know how to run a ranch, train horses, rope anything, and can ride bulls with the best of them. I can’t think of a damned thing that has scared either one of us in years. Hell, we weren’t even worried about buying the ranch or taking on the debt that came with it.”

Shaking his head, he smiled as he opened his door. “We’ve had a hell of a lot of fun sharing women in the past, but with Deanna, it’s not all fun and games.”

Sam smiled and stepped out, rounding the truck as Carson opened the shed. “We’ve outgrown that.”

“Speak for yourself.” Carson chuckled and gathered an armful of logs. “I plan to have a hell of a lot of fun with her.”

After stacking the logs in the truck bed, Carson sighed. “Having something permanent with her scares the hell out of me.”

Sam dropped his armful of logs into the truck bed. “Then bow out. Leave her and Casey to me.”

“Fuck you. I’m not going anywhere.” He gathered another load. “I just don’t want to fuck this up. Neither one of us has had a long-term relationship in quite some time.”

“True.” Sam followed him out to the tuck again. “We’ve been too damned busy making the changes we wanted at the ranch to have time for more than one-night stands.”

Carson smiled. “It looks like that’s over.”

“Looks like.” Sam turned from setting more logs in the back. “What I know about raising a little girl wouldn’t fit in a thimble, and sharing a woman on a permanent basis scares me as much as it intrigues me. We’re just going to have to stick together. Both of them need the security of a united front.”

“That’s for sure.” Carson went for another armload, once again fighting back anger at the thought of Deanna’s life in Mississippi.

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