Her Wayward Cowboy by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2022-12-06T02:13:58+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

ARIZONA STILL FELT breathless by the time Micah left the kitchen.

She was angry at him. And she had no call to be. He had never owed her anything, and now she had an explanation for why he had left all that time ago. She had no right to be mad. She had no right to have expected anything from him. He had gone back home to claim custody of his kid, and that was admirable. It was.

And yet... She still felt betrayed. That he had gone back to a life she hadn’t known he’d had. That he’d married somebody else.

As if you didn’t think he had.

It would’ve been different if she would’ve had a lover.

But not having a lover didn’t have anything to do with Micah Stone. It was all the things that had come after.

It was all the things tied up in him... And he had gone back to have a baby with someone else. If she’d known that, would she have cried for him the way that she had? Would she have driven quite so fast?

Would she have broken her leg in those places, and split her torso up the side? Would she have left herself with all those scars?

She didn’t know the answer to those questions.

Maybe she would’ve driven faster. Maybe it would’ve been worse.

Maybe she would just be dead.

And that would be a pretty piss-poor thing. To have died over some man who had never even slept with her.

She’d wanted him close, and now all she did was try to keep people away.

She was sick of herself.

Her family came in, loud and boisterous in the big cabin, and her brothers started to go through the fridge to get out the steaks that they’d taken out of the freezer earlier.

There was always beef to be had at the Kings’.

She’d said that she was a vegetarian for a while. She might as well have announced her plans to become a serial killer. It had not gone over well in her ranching family. As a result, she had stuck to her guns and avoided beef for two years.

Just to be in a fight about it.

It was Denver who’d said to her: Why are you cutting your nose off to spite your face? And it really was then that she’d realized she was being her dad, rather than being in a fight with him, and that felt like a silly thing.

So she had given up on the crusade. Because it had never been about her moral convictions, and had only ever been about making Gentry angry.

She’d thought perhaps the better part of valor was to eat prime rib.

It was better now in the house with her dad gone. Her mom had never been much a part of her life, and given how her dad was, she assumed that might even be a gift. He’d left the ranch to all the kids, and had gone his own way years before. And it was a good thing, it made everybody happier. More free.

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