Zane (7 Brides for 7 Soldiers Book 3) by Christie Ridgway

Author:Christie Ridgway [Ridgway, Christie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Christie Ridgway
Published: 2017-11-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Early Sunday morning Zane sat in his desk chair at A To Z, scrolling through the schedule and trying to focus on the day ahead instead of whom he’d been with the night before, when Adam strolled into the office. He set a coffee beside the computer and then wiggled two twenties in front of Zane’s face.

Damn.

Snatching the bills, he half-shoved them under the pen- and pencil-filled cube on the desk.

“No wonder you look like hell,” his twin said. “Blue balls, huh?”

“We shouldn’t have made that bet,” he muttered.

Adam fell back on one foot, his hand over his heart like he was having an attack. “You never hesitate to make a bet, take a bet.”

“I shouldn’t have done it this time.” Only jerks bet on bedding woman, though he had bet that he would not. No difference.

“But—”

“Shouldn’t have done it,” Zane repeated, aware he sounded surly as hell.

“It wasn’t exactly a land giveaway,” Adam said.

That had been the seed for five decades of feuding that had divided the town. A card hand and a bet gone wrong…meaning that Grandpa Max had lost a tract of his most valuable land and winner John Westbrook hadn’t hesitated to scoop it up. But there’d been other causes and other grudges that kept the hostility alive for years until Bailey and Ryder’s romance forced everybody on both sides to begin to play nice, finally, just this spring.

At that moment, Gambler ambled into the office, took one look at the low cupboard door Zane had left open when he went for printer paper and nearly jumped out of his fur coat. With a whimper, he dashed to the knee well cut into the desk, knocking over a waste basket on his way, and cowered between Zane’s legs.

His brother bent to peer inside the cabinet. “Better add boxes of paperclips to the Terror List.”

Zane sighed, his hand reaching down to fondle the dog’s ears. Just yesterday Gambler had seemed to be a whole new canine when listening to little Bella read. But there it was, proof that leopards didn’t change their spots.

Adam hitched his hip onto a corner of the desk. “You know, we haven’t talked about Wednesday night.”

“Huh?” Zane gave his brother a wary look. He’d kissed the librarian in public on the sidewalk then. “What about Wednesday night?”

“When Bailey shared with us that Mom is coming back to town for her restaurant opening.”

“Oh.” Zane frowned. “That.”

“I guess they’re making a reunion movie for Mom’s old sitcom.”

“You mean Tori Remington’s old sitcom.” Their mother left for Hollywood as Vicky Tucker, but when she’d been cast as the mother in Mother May I, she’d become another person. Leaving her real name behind as well as her husband, sons, and daughter.

“According to Bailey, it got her thinking she wanted a chance to reunite with us.”

“Huh.” Zane returned his attention to his computer screen.

After a moment’s silence, he sensed his twin’s impatience. “Well?” Adam finally said. “What do you think about it?”

“That’s my favorite part about being a twin.

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