Texan Returns by Victoria Chancellor

Author:Victoria Chancellor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

SOMEHOW, TONI MADE IT THROUGH the burgers and chips that were waiting when she returned from the barn. She claimed a whopper of a headache, which wasn’t far from the truth, and left midway through the third quarter of the Cowboys game. Everyone was nice and solicitous.

Everyone but Wyatt, who had done an excellent job of avoiding her since he had returned from the barn.

Perhaps they’d said everything that needed to be said. She’d confessed why she’d run out of the house. He’d explained his reasons for leaving her so abruptly for college. Because he thought she wanted to get married. All because she’d been happy for Jennifer and Tommy. So happy. Such a perfect couple. They were still together, through sickness and health. Even their daughter Hailey’s cancer, now in remission, hadn’t separated them. If anything, they were closer now than they’d been at eighteen.

So close that there was little room in Jennifer’s life for her former best friend. She had her own family. Toni accepted that, but she missed Jennifer and the girlish fun they’d had. At least she had her parents, and she saw Leo more often than ever since they were working together on the hotel project.

Toni sighed as she drove by her office. She couldn’t face more paperwork. She had too much pent-up energy.

The odd thing was that she wasn’t angry at Wyatt. Not at the moment, anyway. She’d found his confession sad and surprising. She needed some time to figure out why he’d decided never to marry.

Were his own parents so unhappy that they’d made Wyatt believe marriage wasn’t worth the risk? She had no idea. The McCalls were very private people.

Toni rounded the corner onto Commerce, heading to the hotel job site. She pushed Wyatt out of her mind and walked through her project, which usually made her feel better. This was her largest renovation to date and it would go a long way toward securing her financial future, provided they could get the units sold or rented quickly. And if the retail space was also a success. She was hoping for a small restaurant, even one that sold prepared food and convenience items, similar to the all-purpose stores she’d seen in New York City.

And a coffee shop. Wouldn’t it be great to have a place to go with friends for good coffee or tea? If no one else came up with the money or wanted to run it, she might have to take action herself. Find someone to manage it.

Since Wyatt was leaving tomorrow, she would soon have plenty of time to pursue her interests. No more “babysitting” his Christmas decorating project. No more worrying about what he would do next.

She’d gotten over him—sort of—once before and she’d get over him again. After all, nothing had really happened between them. A few kisses, some mild groping and a dash of heavy breathing. She’d done that much on some dates.

“Not in a long time,” she reminded herself. Those would-be hot dates had been in college.

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