Winter Cowboy (Whisper Ridge, Wyoming Book 1) by RJ Scott

Author:RJ Scott [Scott, RJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785641114
Publisher: Love Lane Books Ltd
Published: 2018-02-24T18:30:00+00:00

14

Micah

I watched Daniel leave, waiting until the red of the tail lights vanished into the whirling snow, and still I stood there in the cold.

I couldn’t believe I’d kissed him. I had no right to do that, but in that single moment I felt as if I could touch him and that somehow the last nine years would magically vanish. Then stroking his hair when he had his panic attack, and, god, kissing his cheek.

What the hell had I been thinking?

Chris will never forgive you. I never loved you, and your sister and nephew will be fine without you. His words carved into me because I knew them to be true. Or at least I’d convinced myself that Chris hated me, and that there was no way Daniel had ever loved me.

The last one, about Laurie being better off without me? Was that true? I was good with kids, and Laurie was a little-me. I desperately wanted him to like me, to turn to me when he needed something. I didn’t want him hating me. Hell, the selfish side didn’t want him to be fine without me.

Of course, Daniel had never really loved me, I’d got used to that idea, otherwise he wouldn’t have told me to go nine years ago. We would have fought, and kicked, and screamed at each other, but at the end of it, we’d have worked our way through if the love had been real on both sides. Maybe not as partners, but at least with some kind of relationship, like friendship, or something mutually respectful.

No, he’d cut me out of his life and said I was nothing to him. That wasn’t evidence of the love I thought he had for me.

Childish, stupid infatuation, was all it had been, and one-sided when it came to being in love.

And what about Chris? Why should he ever forgive me? I’d written to him when I was in prison. He and Isaac had been my best friends, but he’d never replied with anything, not even hate.

It felt as if everything was closing in, as if the cops were just a mile away, coming for me, taking me away from there. I wasn’t done yet. I needed to fix things on the ranch, put procedures in place, sell the damn land to help finance. I had to make it right for Rachel, Laurie and the baby. Daniel was professional with Rachel, didn’t give any sign that the anger or distrust he felt for me was ever going to be visited on her or her kids.

If Daniel said Chris didn’t forgive me, then what if Chris hated me, and held onto that hate for Rachel?

Hell, I needed to make things right with Chris before I left.

But what if the cops were right there, looking into a murder at the Brothers’ compound.

“Are you coming in?” Rachel called from the door and startled me. I turned to face her with a pasted smile on my face, then moved into the warmth of the kitchen.

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