Breaking Rules at Nightfall Ranch by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2022-12-06T19:00:50+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

GRAY DIDN’T FIGURE he could groan loud enough to express his frustration over what Callie had just said. “I don’t want to call my father,” he informed her. “I want the truth, and you can give me that.”

Callie sighed again and patted his arm. “I promised Sadie Jo that I’d keep a lid on what I knew. The lid’s staying in place.” She went to the costumes, gathering them up, and for a moment, Gray thought Callie would just head out without saying another word. But she stopped in front of him and looked him straight in the eyes.

“Sadie Jo loved you. Hang on to that.” Callie glanced around the room. “Hang on to this place, too, because I know how much she wanted you to have it.”

Gray followed her to the door, but he didn’t press her to remove the lid that Sadie Jo had put into place by swearing Callie to secrecy. Part of him admired the woman’s loyalty. Another part of him wanted to curse Sadie Jo, Callie and his parents for wanting to keep that secret in the first place.

He watched Callie leave, and this time he locked the door. Not because he thought Alana and he would dive back into another make-out session. Nope. She wasn’t looking at him with lust but rather sympathy.

“I’m sorry,” she said, pulling him into a hug. Not a heated one, either. This one was all comfort. “I’m sorry,” she repeated when she pulled back to meet his gaze. “What are you going to do?”

Gray refused to say the hell if I know. He was a successful businessman and a former rodeo champion who’d worked hard to build what he had, and he hadn’t achieved those things by waffling. He took out his phone and called his father. Or rather that’s what he tried to do. But it went straight to voice mail.

“We need to talk,” Gray said when he left his dad a message. “And you will tell me the truth.”

There. That was one thing ticked off his to-do list. If his father refused to tell him anything, then Gray would consider it a done deal. Yes, it would eat away at him not to know, but it would eat away more if he didn’t try to come to terms with this.

Nightfall Ranch was next on his to-do list, and he glanced around the foyer while he debated his options. “I’ve considered selling the place and donating the profits to various charities.”

Alana glanced around, too. “You don’t intend to own the ranch?” Thankfully, she didn’t bring up what Callie had said about Sadie Jo wanting him to have the place. Gray didn’t need that playing into this.

“I do want to own a ranch,” Gray verified. “A place like this is what I had in mind for expanding my business. Minus the guitars, of course. The location is right. Was right,” he amended, when he’d been thinking about living closer to his dad. “It has the right amount of acreage and water supplies for times when I’d need to pasture some livestock I’m brokering.

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