Her Cowboy Billionaire Best Man by Liz Isaacson

Author:Liz Isaacson [Isaacson, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AEJ Creative Works
Published: 2019-08-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Celia kept her eyes on the speaker, annoyance surging through her. Zach had definitely passed the test of meeting her daughters—they adored him—but he’d been texting for a solid twenty minutes now.

Sure, she was bored too, especially as the twenty-something in front of the mic said something she didn’t understand and the crowd started laughing. Well, the younger crowd, at least.

But he was the valedictorian, and she’d enjoyed most of what he’d said. Zach probably hadn’t heard a word.

“Everything okay?” she asked, leaning over to see if she could catch a glimpse of who he was talking to. Her heart had been beating a little too loudly since the text-fest had begun, her worries over Owen finding out Zach had not ended his relationship with her always in the back of her mind.

“I have a little problem on the farm,” he said, barely glancing at her. His eyes lifted, but they didn’t meet hers before he moved them back to the device. “First I was talking to Finn, and now I’m texting Owen.” He angled the phone toward her so she could see his brother’s name at the top of the screen.

“He wants to know what I’m doing in Cheyenne.” Tension radiated from Zach’s powerful shoulders, and Celia hated that he was in this position.

“What’s the problem on the farm?”

“Flooding.” His thumbs moved quickly over the screen. “Owen and Xander are going up there now. They’ll keep me updated.” He pushed the power button on the side of his phone and stuck it in his breast pocket.

With a stretched smile, he lifted his arm around her shoulders and focused back up to the front of the huge arena, where the valedictorian was still talking.

“What did you tell them?” she whispered.

“Nothing.” He pressed his lips to her forehead and kept his eyes on the student.

Celia’s gut churned. But the valedictorian finally stopped talking, and applause filled the basketball arena. “Finally,” she muttered as the Dean of Education got up and announced that they would now be reading the graduate names.

Armstrong was very soon in the alphabet, and pride filled her with every name that got called. When Reagan Fawn Armstrong was finally called, she whooped and clapped along with the people in her row.

Dale’s parents sat down on the other end of the row, with several of his brothers and sisters there. Only she and Zach had made the trip for Reagan, as her mother was elderly, and her brothers had a farm to attend to.

But Dale’s family was from Cheyenne, and she appreciated them all being here. Of course, their son was graduating too, but she met Vivian’s eyes, noticing that the other woman was teared up too.

She couldn’t believe her oldest daughter was now graduating from college. Brandon, she thought. You would’ve loved to have been here.

All of these big moments in her life—in her daughter’s lives—were bittersweet. She was so glad and grateful that she could experience them. She’d never felt so much pride than when her

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