The Cowboy's Reunited Family by Brenda Minton

Author:Brenda Minton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

They left Cooper Creek with a container of still-warm chocolate chip cookies. Sissy and Teddy had waved from the front porch, Blake’s mom standing behind them, a hand on each of them. She’d been smiling big. Blake always thought there would come a day when she’d want a break from having a houseful of kids. So far it hadn’t happened. She’d taken in Jesse’s stepdaughter for a while and Gage’s teenage brother-in-law was a constant guest at Cooper Creek.

When they pulled up to his place, Jana got out without saying too much. She looked pale and shaken. He wanted to tell her he would do anything to go back and start over. An unsigned paper didn’t change what had happened, though.

It didn’t, he repeated to himself. But it was getting harder to believe. Jana was walking up to the house, their daughter was in the yard playing with the dog. Everything he’d known about his life for ten years was suddenly undone because of one unsigned paper.

He got out of the truck.

“I’m going to the barn. But I’ll stop in before I leave.”

She smiled but the gesture didn’t change the sadness in her eyes. “Okay.”

“Can I go with Dad?” Lindsey tossed the tennis ball in her hand, and Sam went after it.

“If your dad doesn’t mind.” Jana looked to him for an answer.

“Of course she can go with me.”

Jana nodded and went inside. He would check on her before he left. A thought clicked in his brain. He didn’t know a lot about depression, but he needed to know that she was okay.

“I’m going to put a halter on the foal,” he informed Lindsey as they walked toward the barn, knowing she’d love the idea.

“Can I help?” Lindsey looked up, her hazel eyes big and her smile wide.

“I’ll get the halter on and you can help me gentle her down a little. We need to get her used to our touch.”

He walked into the tack room to get the halter, and he glanced back, watching his daughter with the mare. The foal nudged his tiny nose up to the door but then backed away before she could touch him. Lindsey smiled at Blake and then went back to petting the mare and trying to coax the foal.

He wasn’t looking forward to telling her about the divorce. Not now, when she was getting healthier. Not now, because she was adjusting to her life, to the relationship between her parents. Telling her they were still married but filing for divorce. How would she accept news like that? He looked over the assortment of halters but didn’t really see them.

Things were definitely more complicated than they’d been a week ago. A week ago he’d been divorced and building a relationship with his daughter. Today he was a married man again.

Lindsey turned to see what was taking him so long, and he managed a smile, holding up the miniature halter he’d found as he walked out of the tack room, switching off the light on his way out the door.

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