Her Cowboy Inheritance by Danica Favorite

Author:Danica Favorite
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-05T16:41:57+00:00

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After a long week working with Shane, Leah’s sisters had insisted that she take all of Saturday off and spend the day doing something fun with the boys. Erin had even pressed a twenty into Leah’s hand and told her not to come home until it was gone.

Frankly, Leah had been too exhausted to argue.

Which was how she’d ended up at B.J.’s, a little place shaped like an ice cream cone on the edge of town. According to Shane, it was the place to go on a hot summer’s day, and it seemed, as she arrived, he’d taken his own advice.

Shane was already there, enjoying a cone like he didn’t have a care in the world.

Before she could decide about whether or not to approach him, Dylan ran toward him. “Mister Shane!”

The poor guy probably needed a day off just as much as she did, and here they were, bothering him.

But Shane smiled as her son barreled into him, knocking the ice cream right out of his hands.

Dylan jerked away and started to cry. “It was an accident. I didn’t mean to. Please don’t be mad. Please don’t hurt me.”

“I’m not going to hurt you. I’ve never hurt anyone in my life. It’s just ice cream. Come here.”

Shane took the little boy into his arms and gave him a big hug. “It was an accident. Accidents happen. Did I hurt you when you broke my mug?”

Maybe that was a bad example, considering Dylan had accused him of doing so, but Dylan shook his head. Then Dylan burrowed closer to him. “My dad used to hurt me sometimes.”

Leah’s heart dipped at her son’s words. It had taken months of therapy for Dylan to make that admission previously. Clearly, her son trusted Shane more deeply than she’d thought.

“I’m sorry to hear that,” he said, giving the boy a hard, tight squeeze. “But I’m not like your dad, and I will never hurt you.”

Dylan burrowed himself in closer, squeezing him tighter. “Maybe now that he’s gone, you could be my dad instead.”

A lump formed in Leah’s throat, and she wasn’t sure how to respond.

Shane gave him another squeeze. “It’s not that simple. But I’ll always be here for you as your friend.”

Some of the tension she’d been holding relaxed, and Leah smiled. “And we’re very grateful for your friendship. How about I get us all some ice cream, including one to replace what fell on the ground?”

Dylan untangled himself from Shane’s arms and looked at her. “It was an accident, and Mister Shane told me that he wasn’t mad. He even gave me a hug, like you do.”

Some of the heaviness in her heart peeled away. She often wondered how much her son blamed her for everything that had happened and whether or not he held anything against her. But it was clear that he saw her as a loving influence, and, selfishly, she was glad Shane was there to witness it. With all the judgment she’d faced in the past, she sometimes wondered if he, too, thought she was a bad mother.

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