Hard Riding Cowboy by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates [Yates, Maisey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2018-05-30T20:02:38+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

LAUREN WAS EXHAUSTED by the time she was finished talking with Ava.

Ava tearfully promised not to do anything like that again. And Lauren, for her part, had tried to be honest with her daughter, trying to explain why she had needed a fresh start so badly.

She and Ava had cried together, and then she’d asked Grace to come and talk with them. They’d shared memories about Robert. Good and bad. Lauren had been careful, but she did try to come up with a way to honestly express why the situation with their father was complicated.

The fact of the matter was Robert had died driving his four-wheeler while under the influence. The death was preventable.

She needed to address that responsibility and choices mattered. She couldn’t just protect him and not use that to teach them. She had also tried to impress upon them that whatever they felt, it was okay. She was angry, but she also loved him. He was their father, and he would always be that. No one and nothing could change it.

She’d talked to her mother after, and cried more. She didn’t have time to be in the middle of an emotional meltdown but she also couldn’t ignore it all anymore either.

If this was going to be a fresh start, then it needed to be new. Open.

She also needed to go to her house and deal with Calder and all of the work still to be done. The sooner they could be in their house, the sooner everything would be fixed. Maybe.

It was so tempting to believe that. So tempting to believe that this one conversation might be the end.

Her rational self knew that wasn’t true. Her rational self knew that this was just one conversation of many that they would need to have. A part of her wanted to believe that for now things were settled.

She thought about that all the way back to the house.

Calder’s truck was still there. She honestly couldn’t believe it. He had said he was going to stay and work, but... It had been hours. She was sure he would’ve left. She didn’t understand this unwavering devotion he seemed to have to fixing everything.

It was alien to her. This kind of caring.

If he wanted sex, surely there were easier ways to get it. With a younger, more beautiful woman who wasn’t carrying her amount of baggage.

Women would line up to lick those abs.

God knew she would.

She didn’t deserve to think about that. Not now. Not when there was too much...

She sighed heavily and turned the engine off. She went inside and heard the sound of a hammer going. Walking into the bedroom, she saw that it was absolutely and completely done. She didn’t even know where he was working.

She followed the sound down the hall toward Ava’s room. There he was, putting up trim around the windows. “What are you doing?”

“There’s a lot more that needs to be done, beyond what needs to be done to satisfy the bank, I mean.

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