Claiming the Texan's Heart by Cathy Gillen Thacker

Author:Cathy Gillen Thacker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-11-19T23:15:26+00:00

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Thanks to the offer from Lucille and Sage to babysit the twins while he cleared his head and figured out the best way to remedy the mess he and Adelaide were in, Wyatt spent the next several hours working with his horses. Decision made, he returned to the Wind River ranch house. And discovered the first glitch in his plan.

He stared at his mom. “Adelaide wants me to meet her in town?” He’d thought she was coming back to the ranch after her errands.

Lucille looked at his disheveled state. “At her home.”

Aware he hadn’t had time to shave and shower yet—and he needed to do both before seeing his wife—he shrugged out of his jacket. Okay, this wasn’t necessarily a bad sign, he told himself. “Am I supposed to bring the twins?”

“No. But don’t worry. Sage and I can continue to babysit this evening.”

“Anything to help you set things right,” Sage said, starry-eyed as ever, looking as emotional as he felt.

Wyatt felt a catch in his throat. What did his suddenly deeply concerned mother and sister know that he didn’t? “Did she say why she wants me there?”

Reluctantly, Lucille admitted, “She wants to talk about how things are going to work with you-all going forward. She thought it would be better to get that ironed out sooner rather than later.”

Damn.

He’d thought—hoped—he would have a little more time before Adelaide went into full dissolution mode and made their relationship officially a thing of the past.

Apparently not.

Which meant he was going to have to do what he loathed most. Admit he was in over his head and ask for help.

He looked at his mother and sister. Aware they had always stood nearby, ready to assist.

Resolved to prove his learning deficiencies didn’t make him any less capable than the rest of his sibs, he’d rarely let them.

It looked like that, too, was about to change.

Adelaide walked back and forth, a bundle of nerves.

Where was he?

Had Wyatt changed his mind about meeting with her tonight?

What could be keeping him?

A peek outside showed a cold rain beginning to fall.

It wasn’t supposed to last long.

But it added an aura of gloom to the already risky evening.

What if she’d made a mistake? Like Wyatt, assumed too much? What if he didn’t want what she wanted after all?

Headlights swept the front of her house. An engine cut. A door opened, then finally slammed. Footsteps moved across her porch and moments later the doorbell rang.

Heart in her throat, tears pricking behind her eyes, Adelaide smoothed her skirt and headed for the door. Jerking in a breath, she swung it open.

Wyatt stood on her porch. In tweed sport coat, pale blue shirt, pressed jeans, and boots, a black Resistol slanted low across his brow, he looked both solemn and hopeful. And ruggedly handsome as all get-out.

His gaze took in her upswept hair, figure-hugging red knit dress, and heels. She’d worried the care she had taken getting ready might be too much. Apparently it wasn’t.

“You look...amazing...” he said huskily, gazing at her in a way no one ever had before, with breath-stealing tenderness.

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