Cowboy's Baby: A Secret Baby Ranch Western Cowboy Romance by Crowne K.C

Cowboy's Baby: A Secret Baby Ranch Western Cowboy Romance by Crowne K.C

Author:Crowne, K.C.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-04T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter 13

WYATT

I hadn’t the foggiest how the hell to react to what she’d said. “You what?”

Jess swallowed and wrung the sheets with her hands. She looked like she’d spilled the damn beans, like she’d said something without thinking that she regretted. I wasn’t about to let her get out of this one. If she knew something, she sure as shit was gonna tell me.

“Maybe it’s nothing,” she said. “Maybe I’m misremembering.”

“No way,” I said, shaking my head. “You’ve been sure about everything you’ve remembered so far. And now you’re telling me something came to mind and you don’t believe it?”

She opened her mouth to speak, maybe to offer an excuse. But she closed her mouth and furrowed her brow.

“It’s simple, Jess – you tell me what you remember. And no bullshit.” My voice was as stern as it got.

“It…was a conversation. And I think it was with Amy.”

My blood ran cold. “What makes you say that?”

“I mean…I know it was with your ex-wife. You were mentioned by name.”

Fucking hell. Had Jess somehow gotten mixed up with my clusterfuck of a marriage? “Tell me what you remember.”

“I remember meeting with Amy somewhere in town. Maybe in Houston. She’s pretty, right?”

I scowled. “Yeah, gotta give her that. But pretty like one of those plants that lures you in and takes a big bite out of you.”

She nodded. “Pretty and blonde and thin, dresses well.”

“Yes, on all counts. Now, why don’t you get to what you remember?” There was an impatient edge to my voice. I didn’t want to snap at her, but she was treading on dangerous ground.

“I remember talking with her. And the subject was you.”

“Shit. I can only imagine what she had to say.”

“She said that you were emotionally abusive and manipulative. That you were a liar, through and through.”

I let out a sharp laugh at the ridiculousness of it. “Don’t doubt she’d say somethin’ like that. Funny thing is those are all qualities she’s got. Heard somewhere once that screwed up people look at others and see a mirror.” As soon as I finished, the real heart of the matter occurred to me. “But what the hell were you doin’ talkin’ to her?”

“I don’t know. Whatever the context of the conversation was, I don’t know. But I know I spoke to her about you, and she told me that you were the monster in the relationship. She cried and everything.”

“That’s her go-to trick. Fell for it a few times myself until I realized she can turn the waterworks on and off on command.” I reached over and took Jess’s hand. “But you were talkin’ to her, and you were talkin’ about our marriage. We need to know what the hell’s goin’ on here, Jess.”

Her eyes flicked down to my hand on hers, and she slipped it free and put it under her free hand. Girl was shaken, and I didn’t blame her. So was I.

“If I knew I’d tell you, Wyatt. You know that. But I just don’t know. Everything around the little bit of conversation is foggy.



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