Propositioning Mr. Raine by Laurann Dohner

Author:Laurann Dohner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“You’re an excellent cook.” Trina smiled across the table at Navarro.

“Now,” Adam laughed. “When he was sixteen he invited a girl over and decided to impress her with his grilling techniques. He damn near burned the back porch down. We had to hose off him…and his date.”

“Not the kind of smoking hot date he had in mind,” Ryder laughed.

Navarro chuckled. “I learned to never grill that damn close to the house again.”

Trina turned her attention on Adam. “So I take it you are a lifetime friend?”

“Not lifetime but damn close. My mom worked for their dad after Ryder and River were born. We came to the ranch when I was four and I grew up here with them after that. My mom worked here right up until she died last year.”

Ryder chuckled. “He’s one of us and so is his brother Trip. We made them blood brothers when we were just kids. He about fainted when he realized real blood was involved.”

“Cool. So do you have a place around here?” Trina couldn’t help but grin.

Adam hesitated. “I live on the ranch.”

Navarro met her gaze as she looked at him. “Adam put a nice mobile home on the land. He didn’t want to live with all of us in the house.”

“Want wouldn’t exactly be my choice of word to use,” Adam chuckled, pointing at Ryder. “He kept stealing all the women I brought home. Between him, River, and Dusty, I couldn’t keep one for long so I moved out so I could have the same woman in my bed more than a week at a time.”

Trina grinned as her attention focused on Navarro. “What about you? Is he being polite and not mentioning your name? Did you try to swipe his girlfriends too?”

“No.” Navarro didn’t smile. “I was engaged to Debbie at the time and then we got married.”

Debbie. So that is the ex-wife’s name. She nodded and noticed the laughter had died when Navarro spoke. A glance at the other men revealed their grim expressions as they stared at Navarro. He met their looks and then looked at Trina.

“She was a bitch. She fooled me completely, but I didn’t want to see it. I was young and believed I was in love. For some reason she thought I owned the entire ranch and was getting someone with a hell of a lot more money than I ever had. When she realized I wasn’t just modest but actually didn’t have much money she was spiteful.” His mouth twisted into a grim line. “She tried to fuck every one of my brothers and then she went after my friends.”

Ryder took a sip of his beer. “We wouldn’t touch her.”

“Damn straight,” Adam nodded. “Brothers don’t do that shit to brothers.”

“My friends weren’t so saintly.” Navarro sighed. “I met her when I was on the rodeo circuit so I should have known better. She was kind of wild but she was fun. I talked about the ranch and how I wanted to retire from the circuit to go home.

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