The Rancher’s Unexpected Gift by Lacy Williams

Author:Lacy Williams [Williams, Lacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lacy Williams Books LLC
Published: 2018-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Delaney watched the realization enter Cash's eyes.

Her breath caught in her chest. So many times acquaintances, even kids from church, offered innocent comments that were painful for Evan to hear. What’s wrong with him? Is he going to die? My grandma had cancer and died...

Would Cash?

She was still reeling from his presence. She should take control of the conversation, ask him to leave, but she felt muddled by the shock of seeing him bundled up, the touch of his icy hand. He'd come all this way in a ranch UTV to deliver her ring.

Her heart was pounding and buzzing, while he seemed totally calm.

"Who's this?" he asked with that easy charm.

She couldn't let her guard down. His next question might be about Evan's health.

"This is my son, Evan."

Evan looked up at the man curiously.

"I'm Cash." He didn't add anything like I'm a friend of your mom's.

He'd been quietly serious since she'd opened the door, caution in his eyes.

And something that her heart wanted to believe was hope.

Danger, Will Robinson!

Cash shifted his feet. "I've probably interrupted your Christmas morning for long enough."

"We have Christmas pancakes," Evan blurted.

Where had that come from? Evan didn't usually warm up to strangers. He was shy until he got to know a person.

Evan glanced at her, a question in his eyes.

Sometimes, her son was too perceptive for his own good.

"You should stay and eat. Warm up before you go back outside." She made the offer tentatively. Did she want Cash to stay? She didn't know. But based on the half-second touch she'd shared, he must be freezing through.

Cash cleared his throat. "I don't want to cause any problems." He looked down at his feet—or where his feet would've been out of the massive coveralls. "With your husband."

"My dad died," Evan said.

Heat filled her chest. Thank you, Evan, for blurting it out like that.

Cash didn't smile like she might've expected last night. His eyes were shadowed. "I'm sorry." There was a pause, and then Cash said quietly, "My mom and dad died last year."

"That sucks," Evan said with a child's honesty.

"Yeah." Cash blew out a long breath, and she swallowed hard at the vulnerability he was showing.

This wasn't the Cash she'd seen yesterday afternoon. Nor the one last night who'd looked at her with such intensity.

Last night she'd been charmed. But now... she felt weak in the knees.

"Come in," she said softly.

"Let me..." He gestured to his coveralls.

She let go of Evan and turned for the kitchen, leaving Cash to take off his layers.

Evan loitered, not hiding the fact that he was watching.

"You've got a lot of clothes on," she heard her son say as she crossed to the kitchen and breakfast nook off the living room.

"It's cold outside," Cash said. Her ears hurt from how closely she listened for any sign of impatience. None came. "Your mom gonna let you go out and build a snowman later?"

"A snow fort!"

"I said you could go out for a little while," she called over her shoulder as she pulled a carton of eggs from the fridge.

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