Light the Stars by RaeAnne Thayne

Author:RaeAnne Thayne [Thayne, RaeAnne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781426862830
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-12-16T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The lovebirds finally called to check in just as Wade was following the last semitrailer full of range cows back to the ranch later that day.

He almost didn't pick up his cell phone when it rang, distracted by all he still had to do that day, and it took a moment for his mother's voice to register.

He barely recognized it. She sounded about a dozen years younger.

"Where the he—heck are you?" he asked.

"Reno, honey. Didn't you get my note?"

"Yeah, I got it. I just still can't believe you'd run off like that."

"I'm sorry, honey, but we just couldn't wait another day to be together. You understand, don't you?"

Not in the slightest, but he decided saying so would be mean so he kept his mouth shut.

"Are you coming back?" he asked instead.

"I told you I was, didn't I? Actually that's what I'm calling about. We were planning to be back Monday or Tuesday but now we're talking about driving over to the coast. We thought we'd spend a few days packing up Quinn's place in San Francisco and then drive down to see his daughter in Santa Cruz. Will you and the kids be all right for a few more days if we do that?"

Mentally, he was pounding his head against the steering wheel a couple dozen times. In reality, he just grimaced. "We'll survive. But you won't find Montgomery's daughter in California."

"Sure we will. That's where she lives."

"Not at the present. She's here."

"Who's there?"

"Caroline. She showed up the morning after you left."

"Caroline Montgomery?"

"That's what I said, isn't it?"

"Why, that was two days ago. She's still there?"

Only two days? It felt like forever. He sighed. "Yeah. She offered to stay and help with the kids."

"And you let her?"

The shock in her voice made him defensive. "You picked a hell of a time to run off, Mom. The crew from the network is showing up in three days and things here are a mess. I didn't know what else to do."

He heard silence on the line, then Marjorie's muffled voice telling someone—her huggy bear, he assumed—about Caroline. A moment later, his mother returned to the line.

"It's just like her to see you needed help and settle right in to do what she can. Isn't she wonderful?"

He was still reserving judgment on that one. "She's something, all right," he muttered.

"I just knew you'd like her once you met her. I'm sure Nat and the boys adore her already."

Too much. They were going to miss her when she left. "You didn't give me too many choices," he repeated.

"I'm losing the signal here, honey. I didn't quite catch that."

"You left things in a mess here, Mom," he said loudly. "What kind of example do you think that sets to the kids when they see their grandmother run off with some guy she never even met in person?"

"Sorry I can't hear you. These darn cell phones. Works fine one minute, then you feel like you're talking to yourself the next."

Marjorie still sounded giddy and he

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