The Sheriff's Son by Stella Bagwell

Author:Stella Bagwell [Bagwell, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781459272835
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

If Justine had any sense at all, she would go pluck Charlie off Brown Sugar, march him and herself to the truck and hightail it back to the Bar M. She and Charlie had survived for five years without Roy. They didn’t need him now. And he obviously didn’t need anybody but himself.

Her face set with determination, she tied the bay to a nearby post and headed out of the barn. Where Roy was concerned, she’d been stupid six years ago. But she was smarter now, she told herself.

Her stride long and purposeful, she walked out of the dimly lit interior of the barn into the sunny corral. Then her steps faltered. Across the pen, Roy was standing beside the painted mare, his hand resting fondly on the toe of Charlie’s boot as he looked up at her son. Their son.

Charlie was grinning from ear to ear, and the happiness on her child’s face suddenly wiped away her resolution to leave. Maybe Roy did bring out the worst in her, but he obviously made Charlie happy. And knowing that, she couldn’t selfishly deny him time with his father. Especially when Charlie needed a male influence in his life. He missed his grandfather.

“Hi, Mommy!” Charlie called to her, and waved.

She smiled and waved back at him, then walked over to the two of them. “You look like you’re having a good time,” she said to her son.

“I am! Brown Sugar is really great! She does everything I tell her to. And she doesn’t keep walking when I say, ‘Whoa.’ See how still she’s standing?”

Justine nodded, then turned her eyes to Roy. She supposed she should be feeling uncomfortable to face him, after the passionate way she’d returned his kiss in the barn and the heated exchange they’d shared afterward. But she wasn’t. Too much had already passed between them for her to be embarrassed.

“Yes, I see,” she answered Charlie’s question. “Roy must have trained her well.”

“He sure did!” Charlie agreed. “She’s not a bit spoiled, like Thundercloud!”

Her eyes still on Roy, she said, “Roy doesn’t believe in spoiling anything, so that means you better mind him when he tells you to do something.”

“I will,” Charlie promised.

He nudged Brown Sugar’s side, and the horse and boy moved away from the two adults. Once he was out of earshot, Roy turned to Justine. “Why did you say I don’t believe in spoiling? You couldn’t have known that about me. Or were you just trying to make Charlie believe I’m mean and crotchety?”

Her brows arched as she studied his face. “You don’t spoil people or animals, do you?”

He grimaced. “No. But—”

“Then why does it bother you to hear it spoken aloud?”

“I’m not a hard man, Justine.”

Her soft laugh was full of disbelief. “Who are you trying to fool, Roy Pardee? You haven’t got a soft spot in your body. You’re hard through and through.”

“Is there something wrong with that?”

Shrugging, she turned her eyes on Charlie as he walked the horse slowly around the edge of the corral.

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