Bucking The Odds (Dancing Moon Ranch Book 9) by Patricia Watters

Author:Patricia Watters [Watters, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dancing Moon Ranch Series, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Bachelor, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Clean & Wholesome, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Animals-Horses & Cattle, Beautiful & Feisty, Cowboy & Western Romance
Publisher: Patricia Watters
Published: 2013-12-19T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Billy stared out the window at the weathered barn and old bucking chutes while envisioning what she'd left behind. One day she was on the ranch she'd inherited from her grandfather and working her bulls in a pen with regulation bucking chutes. The next she was gone. No calls to relatives or friends. No returning the cable TV box or canceling the internet service. And two months later she was relocated to a far corner of Oregon.

Now, it was almost impossible to be natural and spontaneous with people she met, and the friends she'd been close to all her life no longer existed to her. With Jeremy, she could imagine pouring out her soul to him. It was almost too hard to hold back because more than anything, she wanted his love and his trust. She already had his love. She could feel it, almost as if it were tangible, but he was loving her in spite of not trusting her, and now she wanted it all.

She also realized she'd have to change her appearance if she continued taking Wild Card or any of the bulls to rodeos where she could be recorded by cell phone or video camera or other means that could put her on the internet and make known the presence of Billy Jean Fuller. Cutting and dying her hair would be a start. She was getting used to playacting now. Except when it came to Jeremy. He loved her the way she was, in her worn clothes and scuffed boots and weathered chaps, though he could get used to the new appearance if he knew her motivation. But she'd never be able to explain it to his family because it would be like violating the oath of omerta, the mafia code of silence inductees were required to take which was punishable by death. She was only now beginning to understand the extent of it.

She glanced at the clock and wondered when Jeremy would be back from Nevada. It was about a five-hour drive, but she had no idea what time he left there, but now her life seemed empty when he wasn't around.

In the distance she saw a vehicle coming up the driveway and wondered if it was Jeremy, or maybe her father returning from town. But as the vehicle approached, she saw that it was a silver-blue, late model Lexus, with a woman at the wheel. Going to the front door, she opened it, and when a woman in her late twenties, with dishwater blond hair lightened by a bottle, got out of the car, Billy stared first in stunned disbelief, then in anger when she saw her sister, Rachael, marching toward her.

"I finally found the place," Rachael said.

Billy glanced up the road and saw that it was vacant, so Rachael had apparently not been followed. "You know the rules," she said. "Why are you here and where is Molly?"

"She's sleeping in the car and I'm here because I need to talk to someone." Rachael swept past Billy and went inside.

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