Brothers of Miller Ranch Box Set by Natalie Dean

Author:Natalie Dean
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Kenzo Publishing
Published: 2019-10-09T22:00:00+00:00

14

Benji

Benji pulled into a parking spot at the cozy diner, throwing his truck into park before sliding out and rushing around to open Dani’s door for her. Just as he guessed, she hadn’t been expecting that and already was moving to get out.

“Oh, right…” she said as he held his hand out to her. “Figures you’d be old-fashioned.”

“Treating your date respectably is not old-fashioned,” Benji countered. “Besides, of the two of us, who is wearing high heels and has to jump down from my truck?”

“Hah! You may have a point there.” Her hand rested on his arm as she did indeed jump to the ground, but she did it without so much as a wobble. She was quite sturdy for being in a pair of demure black… what kind of shoes were those? He had bought a pair once for a cousin on the ranch his age as a birthday present, but really his mother had picked them out.

Wedges. That was right. He remembered something about the sole gave women more… stability? Or something? He didn’t know. Women’s fashions were weird and uncomfortable, but boy did he like how they made Dani’s legs look.

“All right, shall we go inside?”

He picked up on the fact that she sounded nervous but was nice enough to ignore it. He’d been around Dani enough to know that appearing unruffled and strong was a safety measure for her, and he had no desire to weaken the façade if she was feeling antsy.

Besides, he could guess what was bothering her given what he knew of her history. Apparently, she’d been mercilessly mocked in high school for her weight, clothes and just not being a Miller in general but daring to be the child of ranchers. He imagined showing up on the arm of an actual Miller’s son was going to cause plenty of talk.

But it was to be expected. Ever since Ben had gotten back together with Chastity and married her, the whole town had been abuzz with their most sought-after bachelors going off the market. Then, when Bart and Missy became more well-known as a couple, people really started giving the three remaining brothers the eye.

Bryant had certainly taken advantage of that, shacking up with plenty of girls who had dreams of marrying into the wealth, but he would always break it off with them before a week could even pass.

But Benji had taken all of this into consideration. At first, he had intended to go far away to the city, where they could have a great date away from prying eyes. But then he realized that he wanted people to see him and Dani together. That maybe they’d get a glimpse of the amazing things he saw in her and give her a break. Maybe be a bit friendlier.

Or maybe he just wanted to show her off. Like some sort of weird, middle-child need to declare that he was interested in someone before anyone else could swoop by and snap her up.

His mind was brought back to the present and the actual date rather than the why of how he had planned it.

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