Texas Temptation by Kathryn Brocato

Author:Kathryn Brocato
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2016-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

“This is just the strangest thing,” Ed marveled, looking from Rebel, in his brother’s stall, to Goof, wandering loose around the shed under AJ’s watchful eye. “They look like twins.” He squinted at the two horses. “Now which one was on the news again?”

She smiled and pointed to Rebel, and laughed when Goof wandered up and butted Ed so hard he almost knocked him down.

“You took care of the jealous one,” she told him. She re-fastened Goof’s lead.

“Thanks again, Ed. If you don’t mind, I’ll stay in the trailer. My friend’s coming for the horses tomorrow.”

“It’s been a real nice job. Thanks,” Ed said, and they shook hands.

She walked back to the trailer. A clean cloth covered the table and she’d put clean linens on the bed. Hard to believe that the chaos from their escape hadn’t died down.

Proving ownership of Rebel hadn’t been difficult and he’d been cleared to go home to Florida.

AJ and her mother had temporary custody of Robbie, with adoption procedures to follow.

But she and Rosa had almost come to blows over Mike Towers’s money. Neither of them wanted it.

“His money is filthy!” Rosa protested, when Chance and she insisted that Rosa lay claim to the Towers’s fortune. “My mother is gone, and—and what would I do with money?”

While she eventually agreed that she might be able to use it to undo some of the damage Towers had done, she and Chance turned the tables on AJ, insisting that she should consider Robbie’s future and find out if he was Mike’s son or not.

AJ sighed. She hadn’t agreed yet. But Rosa had thrown in the most persuasive argument yet.

“AJ, you got it all back, except Gina,” Rosa pointed out. “Chance lost everything. His job, and his chance to help his uncle and aunt. We might be able to help him with legal fees—or something—down the road.”

“Or something?” AJ prodded and Rosa laughed.

“Hire him,” she suggested. “He loves horses and he loves Robbie. Why not make an offer?”

Maybe because she hadn’t seen him in a week.

While lawyers worked on her problems, he’d been called in by one agency after another to make statements about Towers, his death, his holdings—one complication after another.

A shiver shook her, not from anything unnatural now, but because she worried. Those who had been loyal to Mike, or who thought Chance might know something that could hurt them, might come after him, even here.

She swallowed hard. Rosa and Robbie had flown to Ocala, leaving Emily distraught, but no worse than before. Rebel and Goof would head home in the morning. Now, the only loose thread was Chance.

• • •

Chance finally knocked on the door, then came in, looking thin and pale, still too big for the small confines of the trailer.

She thought seeing him again would be easy, but she couldn’t speak past the lump in her throat.

He stared at her silently, too, then caught her in his arms, hugging her so close that she could feel his heart thudding against her chest.

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