My Cowboy Temptation: A Steamy Age Gap, Dad's Best Friend, Accidental Pregnancy Romance (Cowboys of Castle Falls Book 2) by Liv Wilder

Author:Liv Wilder [Wilder, Liv]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Three months later

Callie

“I never would have thought about putting these two pieces next to each other,” Natasha says as she nods at the art in front of us. “But seeing them up there, the contrast between the light and dark, the softness and the angles? Genius.”

I grin, happy at her compliment. “Thanks.”

She pats my arm and returns my smile. “Thank you. I knew that you would be amazing in this job. Much better than working for what’s-his-name,” she says, although we both know perfectly well who she means.

I stuck it out working as Theodore De Longer’s assistant for nearly three months, something that I should be commended for. The man is a tyrant. Not only that but a conceited tyrant who was prone to full-blown tantrums when his painting didn’t take the shape he envisioned for it.

Oh, and instead of taking the blame for that, he preferred to throw that blame on anyone else. Like me. I might have stuck it out longer, since the money was more than decent, but Natasha, who I stayed in touch with, made me an offer that I couldn’t resist.

Come back to Montana and work as her assistant at the art gallery in Kalispell.

It’s crazy. In high school, I couldn’t wait to get out of Montana and go on to bigger and better places, but after being back this past spring, something has changed. Not just between Brody and me, but I have a new appreciation for the place where I was born and raised. Where my ancestors were born and raised going back generations.

And for the first time in my life, and despite living in one of the coolest cities I’ve ever been, I experienced homesickness. Homesickness for Castle Falls, Montana, a feeling that was compounded by the new direction my life was about to take.

So last week, I packed everything up, said good-bye to the moody artist and to my mom and her husband, and headed home.

Unlike my last homecoming, I haven’t told anyone I’ve come home except for Natasha. Because this time around, I want to do it entirely on my own.

I need to prove that I can stand on my own two feet without anyone’s help, financial or otherwise. With the money I made in London, I put down the first and last month of rent on an apartment in Kalispell that’s also within walking distance from the gallery where I work now. Adding in the money I’m making from Natasha, I not only have enough to pay the rent, but also some left over to sock away for future expenses.

Big future expenses.

“If there isn’t anything more you need from me, I’m going to head home,” I say, checking the time. As exhausted as I am, if I get home in the next twenty minutes, there will be enough natural sunlight streaming in my apartment to allow me to get the lighting of the sunset in my painting just right.

“No, go ahead. Go put your feet up and relax,

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