Resisting the Rancher by Lynda Chance

Author:Lynda Chance [Chance, Lynda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lynda Chance Books
Published: 2017-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jeff came in the next day just before noon and found his lunch on the table covered in plastic wrap, Janet absent from the kitchen. How many days had it been now? Goddammit, how long was he going to have to walk around with a perpetual hard on?

He walked out of the empty kitchen, knowing Hannah was asleep as usual. Quietly, he walked down the hall to Zach's bedroom and stood just outside the door where he wouldn't be observed.

Janet was sitting on the edge of the bed once again, offering his son a spoonful of soup. "I can do it," Zach mumbled as he took the spoon from her hand.

"Okay, sweetie, but you do need to eat."

"I know," his son replied after swallowing.

She lifted her hand to his forehead and Jeff recognized the conflicted look on his boy's face, but he didn't try to pull away from her touch.

"I was worried about you last night when your fever flared up again," she said gently.

What? She'd taken care of his son in the middle of the night?

Zach didn't comment as he continued eating and Jeff knew that his growing appetite was a good sign for the boy's improving health.

Janet stood up and began moving around the room, first straightening out the bed coverings and then adjusting the blinds to let in just the right amount of light. "I'll come get the tray in a bit. You know if you need me, just shout, okay?"

Jeff was floored when he saw the look that came over his son's face. Almost as if the boy was trying to peg her into a certain hole but couldn't, Zach's forehead wrinkled as he gave her an uncertain nod.

As she smiled and turned to leave, Zach looked torn, and that made Jeff feel torn as well. "Janet," his son finally spoke and his simple, sincere words made Jeff's heart catch. "Thanks."

Her smile widened as if she'd been blessed by the Pope himself. "Sure thing, kiddo."

With that, she turned to leave the room and Jeff made himself scarce before she found him loitering in the hallway.

With his feelings as fucked up as they'd ever been, he went to the garage and pulled down the foldaway steps that led to the attic. With the memory of Janet's pure, undiluted care of his son ringing in his mind, an answering need exploded within him. He climbed the steps with purpose, to retrieve Zach's baby bed for Hannah.

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