Trouble Maker: A MacKenzie Family Novel (The MacKenzie Family) by Liliana Hart

Author:Liliana Hart [Hart, Liliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2016-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Instead of heading back to his truck and toward home where work was waiting for him, Beckett decided there was no time like the present for foolishness. He veered from his truck back across the street toward the bakery. The pleasure of stepping inside and inhaling fresh baked bread and pastries was short lived when he saw Denny Trout in line.

Denny was Hazel’s older brother and he was the foreman for the Caldwell’s over at the Circle C Ranch. Circle C had fallen on rough times the last decade or so, and a lot of people said that it was because of Denny. He spent more time gambling than he did doing his job. People also said the reason he hadn’t been let go was because he spent more time doing Isobel Caldwell than he did gambling. There were at least fifteen years between Denny and Isobel, but the affair had been going on since before Denny had become foreman.

Isobel’s husband, George, didn’t seem to mind the affair as he much preferred to warm their housekeeper’s bed instead of his own wife’s. Granted, the Caldwell housekeeper was something to look at, though George didn’t let her get out much. George was a jealous sort and he’d once bashed in Jed Blanchard’s windshield with a tire iron for wolf whistling at her while she was shopping at the mercantile.

Beckett would’ve put money down that the girl wasn’t legal drinking age, and if she was she wasn’t far past it. George was somewhere in his mid-fifties, but Beckett’s mama had always said George had a taste for the young ones.

Maybe if both the Caldwells had been more interested in breeding and selling their cattle at top dollar instead of jumping in and out of other people’s beds, they wouldn’t be selling off a chunk of land to pay off all their debts. As it was, Beckett had already made arrangements to purchase the land at a fair price since it bordered the far side of his property.

“Well, look who it is,” Denny said loud enough to get everyone’s attention. The noise from those sitting and enjoying afternoon cups of coffee and sweets died down to nothing.

“Denny,” Beckett acknowledged and then got in the back of the line. The smart thing to do would’ve been to turn around and leave. But his male pride wasn’t going to back down from a worthless son of a bitch like Denny.

Denny turned in a slow circle to make sure he had a captive audience. He had a shit-eating grin on his face and Beckett knew this wasn’t going to end well.

“Better watch out, ladies,” Denny called out. “Lover boy here likes to stick that famous prick into whatever walks by and leave you high and dry when he plants a bastard in you. Better cross your legs.”

There were a few snickers, but Beckett stayed silent and kept his gaze straight ahead.

“Saw you walk over from the new place next to the sheriff’s office,” Denny said.

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