Ty's Heart: California Cowboys 3 by Selena Laurence

Author:Selena Laurence [Laurence, Selena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Golden Age Press
Published: 2017-10-23T18:30:00+00:00

13

Ty’s day was spent in a battle with himself. While he’d been staring into her eyes, his cock recovering from fucking her senseless, he’d been convinced they should see each other, test where things might go. But once he’d gotten back to the ranch, gotten Katie up for school, listened to how excited she was to see her mother after school that day, watched as Cade and Nina quizzed her on her addition over breakfast, he’d realized what a huge risk he’d just taken.

What if he started seeing Jodi and it didn’t work out? What if she decided to retaliate by trying to take Katie? Or worse, she got hurt and took off again? Katie would be crushed either way. She needed her family like she always had, and now she needed her mother too. If she were to lose either, it would break her tiny heart.

“What’s eating you?” his brother Vaughn asked as they watched a long line of cattle being loaded up to ship.

“Nothing,” Ty responded absentmindedly.

“Oh good, so you won’t mind if I set Jodi up with Deke Warner this weekend? He’s been asking about her.”

Ty’s head whipped toward his little brother, his eyes narrowing when he saw Vaughn’s amused expression.

“Yeah, thought that would get a reaction,” Vaughn muttered.

Ty rolled his shoulders, trying to shake off the discomfort the idea of Jodi with Deke caused him.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” he asked.

“That you still have a thing for her.”

Ty didn’t answer, just watched the big, soft-eyed cows making their way up the ramp to the truck. He leaned back against a fence and crossed his arms.

“What if I did?” he finally asked, not meeting Vaughn’s gaze.

Vaughn sighed. “I’d say you’re living pretty damn dangerously.”

He was right. Ty had no problem admitting when his younger brother was right—something that seemed to happen more and more these days. But dammit, this time it stung.

“Look, she’s done and said all the right things,” Vaughn continued. “And she’s great at the voodoo medicine stuff. My leg feels better than ever. But we’d all be fools if we ignored the history here. She was drifting around the country when you met her, she never once considered keeping Katie, and she took off without a single look back.”

Ty nodded. That was all true, but the way she looked at Katie now, the reverence in her voice when she talked about her—it was hard to reconcile the Jodi he saw today with the woman he’d known five years ago.

“You don’t think someone can change that much?” Ty asked.

Vaughn cleared his throat. “I’m not sure, and I guess I think Katie’s too important to take the risk.”

Fuck. Vaughn was echoing what Ty’s more rational parts were telling him. Keep it to business, be prepared for the other shoe to drop, don’t trust her any more than necessary. Then an image of her and Katie staring up at him at the beach flashed through his head, and everything inside him went to jelly again.

He ran a hand through his hair in frustration.

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