Take A Chance On Me (Logan's Legacy) by Karen Rose Smith

Author:Karen Rose Smith [Smith, Karen Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Adult, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Second Chances, Logan's Legacy, Child When Adopted, Erected Impenetrable Walls, Relationship, Learned To Trust, Heart Broke, Ten Years, CEO, Half-Brother, Family Life, Nurse's Care, Medical, Saves Brothers Life, Health & Healing, Bittersweet Memories, Reunited & Rekindled
Publisher: Silhouette Special Edition
Published: 2012-01-17T05:00:00+00:00

When Adam returned to Cedar Run Ranch, he parked in his garage and didn’t even bother changing clothes. Instead he went straight to the barn. Thunder was in his stall, although the back door that led out into the corral was open. Sometimes the big horse didn’t come in but stood out in the rain or found shelter under the trees.

Adam changed into the spare clothes he kept in the tack room, then he mucked out Thunder’s stall, fed the horse and left him to his meal. Picking up his clothes and shoes, Adam jogged to the house through the now sparse raindrops and let himself inside. It was quiet as it always was, but tonight it seemed too damn quiet.

Going into his home office, he dropped the clothes and shoes on a chair, then checked his e-mail. Nothing from Mark. He must still be sleeping. But the light was blinking on his answering machine and he hit Play, surprised when he heard his mother’s voice.

“Adam, it’s your mom. Please call me when you get in. It’s important.”

Important. That covered a lot of territory—from an increase in salary for the farm manager, to an illness of one of the cows, to a house problem for his mom herself. She was fifty-six now and slowing down. Life on the farm with Owen Bartlett had been tough. Then again, maybe Rena was coming home from Australia. Still…he couldn’t see a family reunion in the offing. After Delia had died, it was as if his connection to the farm and the Bartletts had faded away. Owen, his mom, Sharon and Rena had become even tighter.

No point wondering about it. He made the call.

Peggy Bartlett picked up on the first ring. “Hello?”

“It’s Adam. I hope it’s not too late. I just got your message.”

“No, it’s not too late. Thank you for calling.”

His mother had always been polite with him, if not warm.

“You said it was important.”

“I think it is. John thinks it is. I need your help with Sharon.”

Sharon was thirty-two now and still lived at home. She worked for an insurance firm in Portland but Adam didn’t know much about her life. Sharon had always been the most distant from him, the most resentful that he’d been brought into the family. “What’s the problem?”

“Well, uh, it isn’t just Sharon. I had some news for you but it’s created a problem and—”

Adam waited, letting his mother figure out what it was she wanted to tell him.

“John and I are going to get married.” She said it in a rush as if she couldn’t wait to get it out.

At first Adam was startled. John Pavlichek, the manager he’d hired, was in his late forties, at least seven years younger than his mother. On the other hand, he’d been living on the property for the past four years. Adam knew since Owen had died, his mother had depended heavily on John. Maybe this was a practical move on both their parts.

“Adam?”

“Yes, Mom.”

“Don’t you approve, either?”

“It’s not up to me to approve or not approve.

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