Nashville Cowboy: A reunion romance (The Men of Stone Ridge Book 2) by Heatherly Bell

Author:Heatherly Bell [Bell, Heatherly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-03T18:30:00+00:00

Jackson held Eve’s hand all the way back to the ranch. Seeing her fall apart in his arms, crying because she thought she’d disappointed him somehow…that ripped away at his heart. Just tore whole chunks off. So, she wasn’t ready. Not a big deal for him. He was just going to have to stop teasing himself and working himself up. From now on it would have to be her idea.

He opened the front door for Eve, watched her walk in first, then followed her into the kitchen, where Mima sat at the kitchen table, boxes filled with wedding-favor jam jars lined up in neat rows.

She stood up, hand on hip. “Lawd have mercy, where in tarnation you two been? I was about to call the law.”

Jackson slid her a smile. “Don’t pretend y’all didn’t leave us at the restaurant so we would have no choice but to ride back together.”

“Didn’t mean for you to take half the night.” She waved her hand in the air dismissively. “Hope you two had a grand old time. You just earned me ten more wrinkles.”

“I’m sorry, Mima,” Eve said in a soft voice.

“No, she’s not sorry. It’s my fault. Blame it on me. I took her for a drive, and we lost track of time. Not that it matters much since we’re both adults.”

“I’m going to bed,” Eve announced.

“You go right on ahead, sugar. Jackson knows the rest of us are all early risers ’round here.”

“Maybe Eve could sleep in tomorrow,” Jackson suggested.

It was as if he’d suggested that Texas was the worst state in the country. Mima looked flabbergasted. “What on earth for?”

His voice went up a notch. “Because she’s been workin’ too hard around here. She deserves a break.”

“Are you sick?” Mima asked her.

Now Eve slid him a surprised look that made him feel she didn’t much appreciate his interference. But her getting up so early to feed them plus all the ranch hands breakfast, slaving over a hot stove, didn’t sit well with him.

“No. I’m fine.”

“Good night to you then,” Mima said.

Eve gave him a long look and turned to go. “Night.”

“Good night,” he grumbled and watched her walk away.

“There, isn’t that better? You and Eve, friends again. Good night now.”

“Not so fast.”

Mima stopped in her tracks and turned. “What is it?”

“You should have told me about Eve.”

“Now that really wasn’t for me to tell.”

“I know everything. And while I wanted to kill the man when I first heard, Eve is right. My anger is only going to poison me. Not…him. But I wonder if y’all know how much it kills me that I wasn’t there to help.”

“It wasn’t my place. And I found out two years after the whole ordeal had even happened. Too late for any of us to do a thing. My poor sweet Eve, she felt so guilty about what she’d done to our family.”

My poor sweet Eve.

What about his Eve? She wasn’t a poor thing and she wasn’t always sweet. She was feisty. Ornery. Ready to take on the world.

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