Hawk's Way: Callen & Zach: The Headstrong Bride\The Disobedient Bride by Joan Johnston

Author:Joan Johnston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2010-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

WIFE WANTED

Texas rancher seeks honest, responsible, compliant woman for wife. Must be capable of bearing children. Contact Zachary Whitelaw, Hawk’s Pride, or phone 555–6748.

Her eyes went wide with disbelief. “I know this man!”

“You do?”

Rebecca nodded excitedly. “My father was foreman of his ranch. I lived at Hawk’s Pride from the time I was thirteen until I turned seventeen.”

“Why’d you leave?”

“My dad died from a heart attack, and I used the life insurance settlement to go to college. There was no reason to go back.”

“Now there is. You see this man. You tell him you want to be his wife.”

“I can’t do that.”

“Why not?”

“He’s already told me to get lost once. I don’t need to be told a second time that I’m not wanted.”

“Aha! So he’s the reason you don’t like other men!”

“I never said—”

“I see what you don’t say,” Mrs. Fortunata said. “You loved him. Fine. Don’t let him get away this time.”

“Mrs. Fortunata—”

“No excuses. You go see this man. You tell him you’d make a good wife.”

“Look at the date on this paper,” Rebecca said in desperation. “It’s three weeks old. He’s probably already found a wife.”

“And maybe not.”

“I just couldn’t.”

“What’re you waiting for? You’re gonna be an old lady all alone like me, you don’t do something quick.”

Rebecca laughed. “You were married for forty years before Mr. Fortunata died. You’ve got ten grandchildren!”

“My kids have moved all over the country. I don’t see all those grandbabies so much as I’d like anymore. I miss them. You keep foolin’ around, you won’t even have grandbabies to miss!”

Rebecca laughed again. “All right. I give up. I’ll go see him.”

But it wasn’t going to do any good. Zach Whitelaw had already told her to stay the hell out of his way. Of course, she had only been a kid of seventeen at the time.

Maybe he would be willing to take a second look at a mature woman of twenty-three.

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