Healing the Cowboy's Heart by Ruth Logan Herne

Author:Ruth Logan Herne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-04-10T16:50:03+00:00

Chapter Nine

“So, the cowboy is picking you up?” Melonie exchanged looks with Lizzie on Saturday afternoon and grinned as she got things ready for Corrie. Corrie was watching the twins for the evening.

“And taking you to the rodeo with his two kids,” noted Lizzie with that know-it-all tone in her voice.

“Who both have taken a shine to you,” Melonie continued as she restocked the changing table with more diapers than any two eleven-month-old babies could possibly need in one short evening. Although Char knew precious little about babies of the human sort so she’d learn by watching Mel. From a discreet distance, she decided as she checked the charge on her phone. If the evening went downhill, she wanted to be able to call Lizzie as backup. “You two are ridiculous,” she said as she examined her lipstick one last time. And then she gave her eye makeup a quick once-over again, too. Just in case. “We’re working together, and the kids like me, so it made perfect sense.”

“I have no trouble seeing the sensibility at all,” Lizzie assured her, but she was grinning as she spoke. “You going out with a totally hot Western cowboy that just happened to wander into your life at the most unexpected time.” She winked at Melonie purposely. “The two of us see that as quite sensible, actually.”

“Because you happened to come north and find your one-true-loves,” Char rolled her eyes as she exaggerated the words. “Doesn’t mean I will. I’m doing fine on my own. As always.”

Melonie laughed as five-year-old Zeke shot down the stairs, sporting his daddy’s cowboy look in miniature. He slid to a stop in front of Lizzie, but only because she braced him with her hands so he wouldn’t barrel into her. “Dad says I’m ready to go.” He raised a hand and ticked off five cute little fingers. “I used the bathroom and brushed my teeth—all of them,” he stressed to Lizzie because he wasn’t a fan of sticking the toothbrush all the way into his mouth to reach the back teeth. “And I washed my hands and sang the silly song so they’re like the most-clean hands ever!” He extended his little hands toward Lizzie and she made a show of examining them as the crunch of tires on gravel announced Isaiah’s arrival. Char glanced at her watch—5:45. Right on time.

For a split second she wished she’d insisted on going with her sisters. Why was she doing this? Going to the rodeo with a charismatic single cowboy whose family seemed entrenched in drama?

“You’ll have a wonderful time.” Lizzie shoulder nudged her as Liam and J.J. scrambled out of the SUV. Isaiah followed at a more relaxed pace. “If nothing else this gets you away from work and out in public, where folks can see you’re not the monster Braden Hirsch makes you out to be.”

“Wow. Thanks.”

Lizzie grinned. “You’re welcome. And if your mind is on anything other than rodeo and cowboys with a date like that—” she

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