Texas Vows: A McCabe Family Saga by Cathy Gillen Thacker

Author:Cathy Gillen Thacker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

“I NEED TO GO RUNNING. Are you gonna let me or not?” Will asked.

Kate looked up from the stack of library books on her lap. She glanced at the clock. “Now? Will, it’s ten o’clock!”

“So?” Will sat to put on his athletic shoes.

“So, isn’t that a little late to go jogging?”

Will shrugged. He pushed to his feet and began going through his stretches like the seasoned athlete he was as he continued to chide Kate defiantly. “It isn’t going to make any difference to your dad, the football coach from hell. He wants us all running two to six miles a day, in addition to our regular practices. I didn’t get mine in yet.” Finished with his calf muscles, he began his hamstring stretches as he waited for her to make a decision.

“I don’t know about this, Will,” Kate said, unsure whether he was pulling a fast one on her or not. She knew her dad wanted the kids on his team to run daily—it was the best way for the players to condition themselves to the heat. But Will had had all day to do this. Instead he’d sulked in his room, refusing the dinner she had made him, Kevin and herself, and playing his stereo much too loud. “Your dad isn’t home and you’re supposed to be grounded.” And she doubted Sam would appreciate a call from her about something like this.

“Fine.” Will abruptly stopped limbering up and glared at Kate. “Then you call your dad and explain to him why I can’t run tonight. Because I’m sure as hell not going to—he’d kick me off the team for sure if I did that.”

Will was probably right about that, Kate thought. Her father was not one to accept excuses. “You promise me this isn’t a ruse?” She looked Will straight in the eye. “That all you’re going to do is go out and run and then come straight home?”

Will shook his head and looked away for a very long moment. Finally he turned back to her and said with a sardonic smirk, “I’m not going to be having sex tonight, Kate, if that’s what you’re worried about.”

Unprepared for the audacity of his remark, Kate sucked in a breath.

Happy he’d shocked her into silence, for the moment, anyway, Will shot Kate another disrespectful look, than headed out at a clip. The door slammed after him. Kate had no sooner picked up her book of love poetry again when she heard a car motor in the driveway. She went to the window, hoping to see Sam’s limo. Instead, she noticed Brad’s Mustang. As soon as he cut the motor, Brad and Riley vaulted out of it and stormed toward the house.

As Brad tromped furiously into the soft yellow glow of the porch lights, a chuckling Riley hard on his heels, Kate blinked at Brad in astonishment. “What in the world happened to you?”

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