Montana Sky by Nora Roberts

Author:Nora Roberts [Roberts, Nora]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi

"Maybe I do." But it had been an opening and had gotten her full attention. "And maybe I been asking myself what the hell you're trying to prove to a dead man."

She opened her mouth, closed it, swallowed. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Hell you don't." Anger hastened his words and brought him out of the chair. "You think I don't see, I don't know. You think somebody who tanned your hide when you needed it and bandaged your hurts don't know what's inside your head? You listen to me, girl, cause you're too big and mean for me to turn over my knee like I used to.

You can beat yourself into the ground from here to the Second Coming and it don't mean a damn to Jack Mercy."

"It's my ranch now," she said evenly. "Or a third of it is."

He nodded, pleased to hear the echo of resentment in her tone. "Yeah, and he slapped you with that too, just like he slapped you all your life. He didn't do what was right for you, what was fitting. Now, maybe I think more of those two girls than I did when they first came around, but that ain't the point. He did what he did to you cause he could, that's all. And he brought in overseers from outside Mercy."

Even as her temper simmered to the surface, she realized something she'd overlooked. "It should have been you," she said quietly. "I'm sorry, Ham. It never even occurred to me. It should have been you supervising the ranch through this year. I should have thought of that before, and realized how insulting it was."

Insulting it was, but insults—some insults—he could live with. "I in't asking you to think of it. And I ain't particularly insulted. It was just like him."

"Yeah." She sighed once. "It was just like him."

"I don't have anything against Ben and Nate, they're good men. Fair. And it would take a brainless moose not to see what Jack was up to, bringing Ben around here.

Around you. But I ain't talking about that."

He waved a hand at her as she scowled. "You got nothing to prove to Jack Mercy, and it's time somebody said so to your face." He nodded briskly.

"So I am."

"I can't just push it away. He was my father."

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