Loving Necessity: The Complete Necessity, Texas Collection by Margo Bond Collins

Author:Margo Bond Collins [Bond Collins, Margo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cowboy billionaire romance, Texas romance, cowboy romance, Western Romance, contemporary romance
Publisher: Bathory Gate Press
Published: 2018-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

SHE'S STARING AT ME.

Tor should have been used to that. Before the accident, women had stared at him all the time. Since he'd been hurt, too, though now they were a little more likely to avert their eyes when he caught them looking more often than they had been before. Guess not all chicks dig scars.

This woman didn't seem bothered by the scar, though. When he met her gaze, a bright smile flashed across her face, so easy and real that something tight in his chest flared hot for a moment, burning with sadness.

What the hell was that?

An answer echoed back to him from somewhere deep in his subconscious: Regret.

But regret for what?

He considered it as he pulled the truck out onto the highway long enough to reach the bumpy, unpaved service road that ran between his property and the Tylers'.

When he'd come out of the hospital all those months ago, the doctors had been certain that Tor would regain his speech. The incident when she sprained her ankle had finally convinced him that it was possible. Regret seemed the least likely emotion to feel when Leta's sunshine smile lit up the world around him.

Unless that kind of smile is something I can never hold onto again.

"Your boss's ranch is gorgeous." As Tor drove past her Kia parked in the middle of the rarely used road, Leta's words broke into his self-reflection, pulling his attention back to what was happening right now rather than what might be.

Better that way—if the time since his accident should have shown Tor anything, it was that the last thing he needed to do was spend even more time alone up in his own head.

He glanced past Leta, out the window and over the fence forming the Stuart Ranch boundary. It was beautiful, stretching away from the fence in the rolling golden and green shades of early fall in Texas, small stands of mesquite and other trees offering some shade to the grazing cattle in the hotter summer months. Now, the animals had spread out, away from the shelter of the trees and into the fields available to them. In other fields, recently harvested hay sat rolled into giant bales, waiting to be used, sold, or stored.

If Leta ends up staying, I'll need to send a message to the ranch foreman to make sure she isn't disturbed.

Was he seriously still considering having her as his guest in the bunkhouse of his ranch?

Apparently so.

At least, he would re-issue the invitation if the Tylers' house was as bad as he remembered it.

As they rounded a curve that circled a mesquite stand, the cabin in question came into view.

"Oh, dear," Leta murmured.

Tor twisted his mouth up in sympathy. "Bad," he said, nodding.

She had the door open and was maneuvering herself and her crutches out of the truck as soon as he parked it. She turned around and opened her purse long enough to draw a key out of it. Carrying it between two fingers, she used the others to hold the crutch as she swung her way up to the dilapidated building.

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