Taming A Texas Charmer (Bad Boy Ranch Book 3) by Katie Lane

Author:Katie Lane [Lane, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Katie Lane
Published: 2020-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“You’re lying to your mama?” Lucas stared at Holden in disbelief, and Holden realized that there was no way he was going to get Lucas and Chester to go along with his marriage charade. He should have known better. He was just so desperate to get his mother out of his life that he hadn’t been thinking clearly. He was still desperate.

“It’s only for one night,” he said. “She’ll leave in the morning.”

“Lyin’ to your mama is lyin’ to your mama. It don’t matter how long you do it. There’s no excuse for it.”

“There is if your mother happens to be mine. For some reason, she has decided she wants to see me happily married. And you don’t know her. When she sets her mind to something, she won’t stop until she achieves her goal. I refuse to let her ruin my life.”

“It doesn’t sound like she wants to ruin your life, boy,” Chester said. “It sounds like she wants her only son to be happy.”

Holden laughed snidely. “Marriage never made her happy. Why would she think it would make me? She manipulated every man she ever married. She won’t manipulate me—or stick me with some woman who will.”

Chester continued to study him as Lucas hopped back into the conversation. “Then you tell her that. You don’t lie to her about you and Devlin getting hitched. And not just her, but Reba and that she-devil aunt of hers. The way Gertie gossips, I’ll be surprised if the entire town hasn’t already heard about you and Devlin. And what do you think they’ll do when you two don’t end up at the altar? I’ll tell you what they’ll do. They’ll blame the Double Diamond bad boy.”

He did have a good point. The news of Devlin staying the night at the Double Diamond certainly had traveled fast. There was little doubt that he and Devlin thinking about getting married would too. And Miss Gertie had been pretty ticked when she thought he was taking advantage of Devlin. She’d be even more ticked if she felt like he’d broken her heart.

“Maybe we can say it was all Devlin’s idea to break off the engagement,” he said. “Miss Gertie made Devlin realize what an evil Double Diamond boy I am.”

Lucas pointed the spoon he’d been stirring his chili with at Holden. “So now you want us to lie to the entire town? Didn’t we teach you any morals at all, boy?”

“Now don’t act like you’ve never lied, you old coot,” Chester said. “You lie every time you tell the story about staying on Hell Bent for the full eight seconds. I was there when you rode that ornery bull and I know you barely stayed on for two.”

“It was at least six. When you rode him, you didn’t even clear the gate.”

“A lie is a lie. Six isn’t eight. And I’m thinkin’ that this time lyin’ might not be such a bad thing.”

“What do you mean, you old fart? You think it’s okay

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