Slow Burn Cowboy by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates [Yates, Maisey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-04-18T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

LANE COLLECTED ALL of her lists and headed out the door of the Mercantile, making her way down the street to Rebecca’s knickknack shop.

The sun was setting into the ocean, somewhere beyond the silhouette of the brick buildings on Main Street. There was a breeze filtering through and the American flag that stood tall and proud at the end of the block was currently being lowered by one of the members of the local Lions Club who volunteered for various jobs around town.

She hurried quickly down the cracked sidewalks, pausing to make sure there were no cars coming before she crossed one of the side streets and made her way into The Trading Post.

Rebecca and Alison were already there.

“Where’s Cassie?”

“She couldn’t make it,” Alison said. “One of her kids has an ear infection.” She grimaced. “Children seem slightly overrated to me.”

Rebecca smiled. “I don’t know. I might like a couple.”

Lane’s stomach clenched, but the reaction felt somehow different than it usually was. She kept thinking of what Finn had said to her down by the lake. About how she was different now than she had been.

She’d been thinking about it basically nonstop for two days.

He was right. She had been a different person then. And, had she kept her son, she would be a different person now. There was no way to play that scenario out, not with any accuracy. She couldn’t take the life she had now as evidence that everything would have been fine if she’d made another choice. And mostly, she just had to accept it. Accept that she couldn’t know.

She breathed in deeply, feeling a little bit lighter as she let the breath out slowly.

“What about you?” Alison asked. “Are you ticking biologically?”

The thing about being pregnant at sixteen was that it took care of that biological clock nonsense. She had done it once. There was no mystery left in it. But for the first time in a long time she hungered not for the experience of pregnancy—that had been a lonely, horrible time in her life and no amount of understanding that if she did it again it would be different could change that association—but for the possibility of something new.

Of course, when she thought of that, she thought of Finn.

Her heart squeezed. And she did her very best not to imagine what it might be like to have his baby.

Wow, she was a head case. A few good orgasms and lakeside therapy and she was starting to forget what they had agreed on.

“Not specifically,” she said.

“As in, not right at this moment?” Rebecca asked.

“Pretty much.” Actually, this moment had triggered the first twinge of any kind of longing she could remember that wasn’t related to the child she’d already had.

“Me either,” Alison said. “Though, I have to say that’s mostly related to how very little I want to deal with a baby daddy.”

“Well,” Rebecca said. “That’s the difference. Because I don’t mind the eventual father of my children at all.”

“Okay,” Lane said.

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