Texas Ranger Dad by Clopton Debra

Author:Clopton, Debra [Clopton, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781426831836
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2009-03-02T07:00:00+00:00

Rose had worked most of the night after Zane left her house. It was either that or waste the night tossing and turning. Having Zane in her house, sitting beside her on the couch looking at photos was hard enough on her. Realizing that Max was trying to push them together had been torment.

There was absolutely no way Zane had missed the way Max had orchestrated their positions on the couch. Nor could he have missed the hopeful looks their son had given them several times through the evening.

Arriving here and finding Zane—looking far too handsome for anyone’s good—was the last thing she needed. Yes, she was irritable. Who wouldn’t be?

She’d bit her lip and pulled in her emotions as she watched Zane storm across the pasture. He had a limp. The realization caused an unwanted pain in her heart. The same thing happened when Max got a scrape or a bump. It wasn’t the limp, but how he got it.

Instantly her mind flew and she wondered if it was from throwing himself in front of someone, protecting them with his own life. Because she knew without doubt that he’d done it more than a few times during his career. That he would do it without hesitation when it came to protecting whomever he was assigned to.

She remembered his expression moments after her assassination attempt. They were in the garden outside the safe house. He had forbidden her to go out there, said it wasn’t safe. But she’d been inside that house for too long and on that day she’d slipped outside just for a moment. When he came out to get her he’d been angry, but she’d kissed him, teasing him for being a worrywart. He was looking at her, smiling when the bullets started.

Rapid fire. They sounded more like taps hitting the window behind her and she didn’t realize what she was hearing. But Zane did, throwing her down on the ground beneath him, covering her then rolling her behind a table that he’d flipped on its side somehow. She still couldn’t fathom everything that happened in those mere seconds before he practically hauled her inside the house.

Afterward he was barking orders over the phone, and within moments he had her crouching in the floor-board of the SUV as he expertly raced them out of the neighborhood.

He hadn’t talked to her the entire time they were on the road. But she could see in his eyes that he was tortured over the whole thing. He was gone the next morning. Until he’d shown up here she hadn’t seen him or heard from him again.

Somehow, because of her anger, all these years she’d forgotten how heroic he’d been. How troubled he’d been over what he’d surely viewed as failure on his part.

Forgotten that he would have died for her that day.

She’d forgotten it all the next morning when he’d walked away. All she could think in that moment besides the fact that she was terrified and abandoned was that she’d caused him too much trouble disobeying his orders and he was now done with her.

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