Rocky Mountain Cowboy by Sara Richardson

Author:Sara Richardson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Today’s the day, Bella.” Kate uttered a heart-cleansing sigh and gazed at the dog, who sat with her ears perked in rapt attention in the passenger seat of the borrowed Subaru. They’d been sitting in Jay’s driveway for ten minutes, but Kate hadn’t been able to get out and face the man.

“I have to tell him.” Time was running out. Over the last week, Gregor had called and texted roughly twenty times, asking how the story was going, checking in to see if she’d finished a draft yet. She’d been putting him off, telling him that Jay had been extra busy so she hadn’t collected all the facts yet. Which hadn’t been a complete lie. Jay had been extra busy this week. She’d simply neglected to tell Gregor that Jay had been busy with her.

Since he’d made her breakfast that morning, they’d settled into something of a routine. She would arrive at the house around eight to pick up Bella, and Jay would make her breakfast before she and the dog went about their day. At five, she’d bring Bella back to the house and either pick up dinner on the way or cook something on the grill. They’d sit out on the back deck under the stars, wrapped in blankets while the fire flickered between them, and entertain each other with stories late into the night. He hadn’t told her anything about the accident yet, but that was okay because there was so much more to him.

He’d told her about being raised by his grandma, who took over the ranch when her husband died in his early forties, about how she was a better shot than any of the men in the county, about how he hadn’t heard from his dad since his sixth birthday, and how his mom moved around the country in an old Airstream trailer, sometimes sending him postcards from wherever she happened to be living at the moment.

Kate had told Jaden things too. She’d told him about the time she’d done an undercover investigation on the recycling efforts at her middle school. It turned out they weren’t recycling at all. At the end of the day, everything from the recycling bin got dumped into the garbage, and she’d exposed their deception in the center spread of their extracurricular newspaper.

She’d told him about how, when she’d declared writing as her major in college, her parents, along with her brother and sister, had staged an intervention dinner where they took turns telling her all of the reasons she would fail to find a career. Then she’d told him how her family had been all too happy to reiterate those reasons, along with a hearty round of I told you so, when she couldn’t find a job.

Those were the real Kate Livingston stories. The ones that hid behind the happy smile. The ones that made her who she was. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d shared them with anyone else.

By day three, breakfast had turned into

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