The Trouble With Cowboys by Melissa Cutler

Author:Melissa Cutler [Cutler, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781420130041
Google: Cq51WW_DEnYC
Amazon: 1420130048
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2012-02-06T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Kellan had been waiting on Amy’s front porch for a long time. Long enough to play a dozen different games on his cell phone and watch a group of wild turkeys scramble across the road and back again. He had to take a leak but no way did he want Amy to show up while he was relieving himself in the grass. Or even worse, for either of her sisters to catch him in the act.

Out of nervous habit, he adjusted the knot of his tie. He was in his business duds today, ready to come clean with Amy about his connection to Amarex, her family’s dire situation and limited choices, and how he planned to help as much as he could. In the briefcase near his feet, he’d packed a financial calculator, contracts, maps, and anything else he could think of that might help his cause. As a peace offering, he’d brought several pounds of beef loaded in a cooler. It wasn’t as poetic as flowers would’ve been, but if anyone could appreciate the gesture, it would be Amy.

Over and over, her words from the previous night bounced around his head like a cruel taunt. I need to see you again. Tonight is not enough.

That made two of them.

The hurt in her eyes damn near killed him as much as the knowledge that he might never have the chance to hold her again. He shouldn’t have brought her to his house. He dialed her cell phone number for the fourth time, but once again, it flipped to voice mail. Letting out a belabored exhale, he scrolled down the touch screen to the game mode.

Probably, he should think about his parents. About his father’s release from prison and his mother’s call to Morton. He needed to prepare himself for the possibility that one of the two of them would be calling to hit him up for money sometime soon. He should formulate a ready response so he wouldn’t be caught off guard. And he still needed to call his brother.

The more he thought about his family, the more that old, familiar hollowness crept into his consciousness. And with the hollowness came the caustic memories he wished he could forget. Dredging up the past led to nowhere but hurt. He was a move-forward kind of man who had risen from the muck of his youth to build himself a better life, a better family than the one he’d first been born into.

His brother, Jake, had done the same. And maybe it was for that reason the two men had such trouble connecting as adults. They reminded each other of a shared history neither of them wanted to remember. Jake was a Los Angeles cop, and a damn good one from what Kellan had gleaned from their handful of phone calls over the years and the articles Kellan sometimes found on the Internet about Jake’s law enforcement heroics. The LAPD had become Jake’s new family, as much as Chris, Lisa, Daisy, Rowen, and Vaughn were Kellan’s.

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