Cowboys Don't Have a Secret Baby by Jessie Gussman

Author:Jessie Gussman [Gussman, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessie Gussman
Published: 2019-04-30T05:00:00+00:00

TY STOPPED HIS CAR in the lot by the park at the end of the street. Where he’d walked with Louise just a couple of nights ago. It felt like years had passed. He turned to the passenger seat. “Hold on. I’ll open your door.”

“I’m your sister, not your girlfriend.” Georgia laughed.

“You’re my date for tonight. Let me get it.” He walked around and opened her door. She stepped out with a smile still on her face, her wild hair only partially tamed in some kind of sloppy knot on top of her head. She wore jeans and cowgirl boots that would probably fit Tella and a button-down western shirt that she had tucked in. Dangly earrings hung in her ears.

Her head came to the middle of his chest. He’d forgotten how small she was. He could see how she might be mistaken for a twelve-year-old. That, combined with the fact that she was holed up on the ranch with Ford, made him wonder if she’d ever get married.

After closing the door, he offered her his arm, and she laughed as she took it. They strolled up the street, taking their time, talking about the things they remembered from their youth.

He hadn’t told her he was a father. He’d barely processed the information himself. But he assumed Louise would want to wait until she told Tella, so Ty closed his mouth over his big news and made small talk with his sister.

He’d not thought about taking Georgia to the movie until he’d visited Ford and her and realized that it’d been years since he spent any time at all with his siblings. Ford had declined his invitation, and Georgia said it’d been years since he’d been off his ranch, but Georgia had taken him up on it.

He found he was enjoying her company, but he was unprepared for her next question.

“So why are you really taking me tonight?”

Guilt pressed on him as he looked down into her laughing eyes which were such a dark hazel as to be almost brown.

“I really realized that it’s been years since we did anything other than you coming to see me with Mom.”

“And?” Her brows were dark against her fair complexion, and she’d always been able to arch just one way up. She did that now.

He couldn’t pretend. “And a girl I have my eye on is going with another guy tonight. I thought it would be too stalkerish if I just went by myself, and I wanted to spend time with you anyway.”

“Perfect. We need a plan.” Georgia didn’t miss a beat, like she did this every day.

“A plan?”

She shrugged. “Sure. We’ll make her jealous.”

“She knows you’re my sister.”

“Oh. Yeah. I guess the plan should start with me knowing her name.” She gave a giggle. It was nice to be out with a girl who didn’t feel like she needed to act perpetually bored. Or be on her phone constantly. Even if Georgia was his sister.

He hesitated. He assumed the theater wouldn’t be full.

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