The Best Catch in Texas by Bagwell Stella

Author:Bagwell, Stella [Bagwell, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781460847282
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2006-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Hours later, Ridge was sitting at his desk, plowing through a mound of paperwork while he waited for Nicolette, when his cell phone rang.

Seeing the caller was his mother, he almost didn’t answer. He was in a good mood and he wanted to stay that way. But with Nicolette having dinner with him tonight, he didn’t want to be bothered with the phone continually ringing. And, if anything, his mother was persistent. She’d dial repeatedly until he answered.

“Hello, Mom.”

“Ridge, honey, I was beginning to get worried!” she wailed in pitiful relief. “You haven’t answered my calls all day.”

He could hear the faint slur of alcohol in her voice, but that was nothing new for Lillian Garroway. Where most people looked to a hobby for relief and relaxation, she turned to gin or vodka. In all his twenty-nine years, he’d never seen his mother in a state of intoxication, but there had been times she’d come damn close. The most prominent image Ridge had of his mother was her wandering listlessly through the house with a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette in the other. He hated the fact that she was wasting precious hours and days, not to mention the physical damage she was doing to her body. But she seemed bent on ruining the very things she’d been blessed with.

“I’m a doctor, Mom. There are times when it’s impossible for me to answer the phone.”

She let out an exaggerated sigh. “Yes, yes, I know. I’ve heard all the excuses before.”

Realizing he sounded like his own father, he grimaced as he tossed down the ink pen and leaned back in his chair.

“Sorry, Mom. It’s just that I’ve had a busy day. I wasn’t trying to ignore you.”

She sniffed. “Well, I wouldn’t blame you if you did. I’m not exactly a barrel of laughs these days. What with you gone, I don’t have much to look forward to.”

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