[Double-C Ranch, Men 18, Return-7] A Weaver Beginning by Allison Leigh

Author:Allison Leigh [Leigh, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“So...” A few hours later, Tara stood next to Sloan at the kitchen sink, watching the rest of the family chase around outside in the snow with a football. “I like her.”

No point pretending he didn’t know whom she meant. Despite the trial by fire his sister and her family greeted them with, Abby managed to rise above it simply by wading right into the group, extending her hand to one person after another as she introduced herself. She didn’t offer a single explanation about kisses or sweethearts or anything. Just was her usual friendly self as if the notion of being his girlfriend wasn’t worth the breath of denying or confirming.

Now she was running around with the others, a grin as wide as Dillon’s on her face.

“Abby’s a likable person,” he said, taking the wet plate his sister handed him and swiping the towel over it. “She’s a good neighbor. Not like that guy who lived next to us when we shared that brownstone back in Chicago. The guy who was always stealing the paper. What was his name?”

“Mr. Quinlan, and stop trying to change the subject.”

He stacked the plate with the others he’d already dried. “Don’t make more of this than there is.”

She pulled the stopper on the drain and leaned her hip against the sink. “Don’t make less of this than there is,” she countered softly. “I see the way you look at her.”

He tossed down the towel, struggling for patience. “You know better than anyone why I’m not going down that path. I’m not cut out for it.”

“Because you think you’re too much like Dad was, or because of what happened with Maria?”

Trust his twin not to mince words.

“Just drop it.” He turned to leave.

But she grabbed his arm. “I put my life on hold for five years for you,” she reminded him tartly. “I gave up the only home I’d ever had until then and moved from Chicago to Weaver—started over again—just to satisfy your overprotective nature while you wormed your way into the Deuces.”

“I get it. I owe you. I’m here, aren’t I? I’m trying. I warned you I wouldn’t be any good at it.”

She gave a huge sigh. “Sloan, you don’t owe me. I love you. I want to see you happy. And you know that my coming to Weaver turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me, because this is where I found Axel. Why can’t you just be hopeful? Go with your emotions for once?”

“Emotions never managed to get me anywhere I wanted to be.”

“That’s the past,” she reminded him softly. “Abby’s not Maria. Working for Max is not the same as pretending to be in league with a bunch of criminals. You lived long enough in the shadows. We did it when we were growing up because we had no choice, but things are different now. We’re different.”

“Are we?” He jerked his chin toward the window over the sink. “You’re living exactly the sort of life you always dreamed of having.

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