The Creed Legacy by Miller Linda Lael

Author:Miller, Linda Lael [Miller, Linda Lael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Montana Creeds, The Creed Cowboys #3
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2011-02-02T06:00:00+00:00

ONCE GOT BACK to the ranch, Brody took the dogs inside and fed them, then headed out to the barn to tend to the horses. He planned on leaving Moonshine right there with the others until morning, when he’d figure a way to get him home to River’s Bend.

When he stepped outside, the stars were spilling across the dark sky, and the three-quarter moon looked magnified, hovering just above the rims of the mountains, like it had dipped too low somehow and gotten itself snagged on a tree or the craggy face of a cliff.

Brody sighed and lifted his hat briefly, just long enough to shove a hand through his hair, and stopped right there in the yard to admire the handiwork of a God he wasn’t sure he believed in.

God or no God, he figured, and daunting as the expanse of it could be, being there, awake and a part of the whole thing, even for what amounted to the blink of the cosmic eye, was a miraculous gift.

Lisa sure hadn’t gotten to stick around long, though, he thought sadly, and little Justin, his boy, hadn’t lived long enough to have see two candles blazing on his birthday cake.

Just like that, Brody’s throat twisted itself into a painful knot, one he could barely swallow past.

It was true that he wanted a family of his own, wanted to marry a sweet-tempered woman and fill that house at River’s Bend with their kids and pack its barn with their ponies, but when he was tired, or felt particularly lonely, like tonight, the idea scared the hell out of him.

Nothing had ever—ever—hurt the way losing Lisa and Justin did. What if history repeated itself? What if he had to bury another wife, another child?

He was Creed-tough, thanks to all those sturdy forbearers of his and a graduate degree from the school of hard knocks, but he’d gone stark-raving crazy after that double funeral in the chapel of a mortuary in a little Montana town. He’d taken to drinking way more than too much, been on the lookout for a reason to fight, 24/7, cut himself off from the people he’d needed most— Conner and Steven and Davis and Kim.

Brody tried to shake it off, this sorry mood, made himself get moving again. Inside the house, he made sure Valentino had all he needed, told Barney it was time they headed for home and led the way out under all those stars again.

Since it was just the two of them, he let Barney ride shotgun instead of consigning him to the backseat, and drove straight to River’s Bend.

There, he remembered that he hadn’t eaten, and poked around in his minifridge for a minute or so, hoping something tasty might have created itself out of the ether.

Nothing had.

He got out the milk carton, took a sniff to make sure it hadn’t soured and was just shaking cold cereal into a bowl when he saw headlights—beams of dusty gold— sweep across the front window.

Barney, having

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