Timing [02] - After the Sunset by Mary Calmes

Author:Mary Calmes [Calmes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, Contemporary, Romance, GLBT, m/m romance, dreamspinner press, Novella, mary calmes, Western, Timing by Mary Calmes
ISBN: 9781613720929
Google: QmUeocXL8sAC
Amazon: B005HRSU30
Goodreads: 12204007
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2011-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

―I see. So Rayland has Glenn who has dark blue eyes like James and Charlotte, and his son‘s Zach‘s are brown.‖

―Yes.‖

―And Rayland and Rand have the bright blue.‖

―Well, yes, they—‖

―May?‖

―Yes, Stefan?‖

―Just because I‘m blond, doesn‘t mean I‘m stupid. It‘s a myth actually.‖

Silence on the other end.

―About blonds.‖

―Yes.‖

Mary Calmes

After the Sunset

90

―May.‖

―Stefan, just—‖

―I know why the man is so pissed, May, but he‘s hiding it behind homophobia and land rights and a whole mess of other stuff.‖

After a minute, I realized she was crying.

―Please tell me.‖

―You know already.‖

I took a breath. ―Does Rand know that Rayland is his father?‖

―No.‖

―Does Charlotte know?‖

―Of course not!‖

She was going to have a seizure when she found out. ―That was brave of you, not telling her.‖

―Stefan, why are you even thinking about Rayland? How do you even know him?‖

―Because we‘re spending quality time together here at the rodeo,‖ I exhaled sharply.

―I‘m sorry, where are you?‖

―I‘m at the Truscott Rodeo with the men, securing the grazing rights.‖

Several moments of silence ticked by.

―Oh my God, Stefan,‖ she gasped. ―How did you even know that—‖

―A very nice lady called me.‖

―Stef, honey, you can‘t be there.‖

―Too late, I‘m here.‖

―And Rand is where?‖

―With Zach at his ranch.‖

―Whatever for?‖

―He‘s helping run his dude ranch for the weekend.‖

―And he has no idea that the rodeo was the same weekend?‖

―No.‖

―So you‘re there in Truscott taking care of things.‖

Mary Calmes

After the Sunset

91

―Yes.‖

―No, no, no, Stef, honey, if you‘re there in Rand‘s place, you have to participate in an event.‖

I should have talked to her earlier. ―Yeah, I just heard this.‖

―Sweetheart, what are you planning to do?‖

―Saddle bronc, bareback, or—‖

―No!‖

―At least if I rode the bull, it would be over fast.‖

―Stefan!‖

―Who cares, May? I‘ll get thrown off either a horse or a bull tomorrow. That‘s fine. The important issue here is not me but Rayland.

You do know that it‘s killing him not to claim his son. You do know that.‖

―I do,‖ she whimpered, and I could hear the tears ready to pour out of her.

―Tell me what happened, May, please.‖

It had been, she told me, a love affair.

The first time May Miller saw Rayland Holloway, she was smitten at first glance. He had loved her back, but he was young and had still been the roaming kind, not the settling-down kind. She was ready to be a wife, to get married and start a family. Just the thought sent him running to the rodeo circuit. A month after he left, May discovered she was pregnant.

Alone and afraid, she turned to her parents, fearing for the worst. They had surprised the hell out of her. They were both looking forward to seeing their grandchild.

―You have no idea about some people, Stef, until you test them.‖

So there was May, prepared to be a single parent, working at her father‘s feed store when three months later, James Holloway returned from Vietnam, just stopping to see his father on his way through town, excited to start his own ranch and begin a life in Winston away from his family. He was ready to be his own man, removed from his father‘s shadow.

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