The Cowboy's Twins by Deb Kastner

Author:Deb Kastner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Amazing.

If Jax heard that word one more time, he was going to knock his head against a wall. The day he’d finished Fuego, Faith had repeated the compliment at least five times that he’d counted.

Every day for the rest of the week he’d been working at her ranch, and he’d heard it over and over again.

Amazing, amazing, amazing.

Good grief. The woman couldn’t get over it.

His mom was not helping. She had come through on her threat to throw a celebratory dinner over the weekend. He suspected it was more for Faith than it was for him, though his mom said otherwise. He had a close family, but they didn’t get together every time one of them did something worthwhile.

He hated the thought that he was going to end up the focus of the evening. It made him itchy all over to think about what fun his brothers were going to have with all this. He’d never hear the end of it. And on top of their teasing, he still had to deal with Faith’s praise.

All he’d done was gentle her stallion. She was acting as if he’d flown her to the moon and back.

He smiled. He had to admit she was good for his ego. She seemed genuinely appreciative of the work he’d done around her ranch, especially with Fuego. That was probably part of the reason he kept going back. She asked a lot of questions, sometimes curious, always learning—so many queries that he would definitely have been annoyed by them if they’d come from anyone but her.

Faith was different.

Most telling of all, she didn’t seem to be the least bit put off by his scarred body. After the afternoon she’d patched up his shoulder when Fuego bit him, she’d never mentioned his injuries again, and it hadn’t changed their relationship at all. If anything, it had brought them closer.

Sometimes—sometimes—he thought he caught her staring, but it wasn’t the way others gawked at him.

Her gaze was sweet. Tender. It made his gut feel all fluttery. He wondered...

His chest tightened. He was reading too much into a simple look. Faith wasn’t good at shielding her emotions, which was good, because in general he was lousy at reading them. Even though she never talked about it, he knew she had her own issues from her past.

Could she get beyond them?

Could he?

No.

Those thoughts were leading him down a path he could not afford to tread, not only because Susie had trampled on his heart and left it in shreds by the roadside, but because his focus needed to remain entirely concentrated on raising his daughters.

On the other hand, it was true that Faith wasn’t anything like Susie.

He trusted Faith implicitly. She would never belittle anyone for any reason. And she was a wonder with the twins. Sometimes he’d covertly watch her with one of the babies and wonder why she wasn’t married with a family of her own. She obviously loved kids.

Maybe that was part of the grief she carried in her eyes.

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