Ranger Redemption by Lynn Shannon

Author:Lynn Shannon [Shannon, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-05T06:00:00+00:00

Luke mentally kicked himself the entire time they prepared the horses for riding. He shouldn’t have told her about his dad, but the look on her face when she realized he might have a girlfriend…it’d sucker punched him while he was still reeling from their hug. Things were shifting between them, and he didn’t have the strength to keep fighting it.

Megan brought Fiona next to his horse, Domino, as they rode across the property toward the woods along the outer edge.

“Okay, Luke.” She held the reins with one hand and waved the other in a circular motion. “Let’s have it. What’s going on with your dad?”

“Never mind,” he responded. She had enough problems on her plate without adding his. “Forget I said anything.”

“Uhhh, no. You cannot drop a bombshell like that and then just pretend it didn’t happen. Something is bothering you, so just spill it.” Her mouth quirked up. “Being a sounding board is the least I can do. You did save my life the other day.”

“I didn’t know we were keeping score.”

“Competitiveness is a Hunt family trait, right behind stubbornness and the ridiculously huge gap between our toes.”

He chuckled. They entered the cool confines of the forest. Sunlight dappled on the ground, and the trail was wide enough their horses could walk side by side.

“There isn’t much to tell, Megs. My dad moved nearby about six months ago. He wants to reconcile.”

“And you don’t?”

He shrugged. “I’ve lived a long time without him, and it’s not like I’m a kid anymore. I don’t need him. I consider Hank my real dad, anyway. He’s the one who raised me.”

“The last time you saw Patrick, you were fifteen, right?”

He nodded. Luke had never told Megan the details about his father, preferring to keep it all behind him. But his past was colliding with his present, brought into focus by his father’s appearance in town and his phone calls, and Luke couldn’t keep ignoring it forever.

“Patrick signed the paperwork terminating his parental rights at the lawyer’s office so Hank could adopt me. I refused to see him when that happened, so only my mom and Hank went. But somehow Patrick found out when the adoption was going before the judge and he showed up at the courthouse. He was drunk and said awful things. Stuff about how I’d betrayed him and that he disowned me.”

Domino tossed his head and Luke realized he was gripping the reins. He took a deep breath and forced his muscles to relax.

“I should’ve kept quiet, but I had a lot of anger built up toward him. My dad hadn’t been sober since I was six. I mean, he tried rehab, but it never stuck. There were a lot of promises broken. Times he was supposed to show up and didn’t. Or he would come drunk. Anyway, I couldn’t hold back anymore. I said some bad things, and it got heated. We ended up in a fistfight right there in the courtroom.”

Somewhere overhead a hawk cried out and took flight.

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