Rich Rancher's Redemption by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child [Child, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-17T16:17:59+00:00

Seven

The more Jesse thought about attending the gala with Jillian, the more he was worried she might get the wrong idea. She wasn’t the kind of woman to be with for a night and then dismiss. She was a mother, for God’s sake. His sister’s friend. And now she was going to be his business partner.

No way he could be as cavalier with Jillian as he always had been with the other women who had come and gone from his life in a blur. But he couldn’t offer her more, either. So what the hell was he doing?

Jesse walked into the main house, intending to dump all of this on his younger brother and see what Will thought about it all. Truth be told, he needed someone else’s input. His own brain had been chewing on the problem of Jillian for weeks and he was still tied up in knots.

But at the threshold of the great room, Jesse stopped dead. Will wasn’t alone. If he’d been paying attention, Jesse would have seen the strange car parked outside the house. As it was, seeing Megan Phillips Sanders sitting on a couch beside Will caught Jesse off guard.

His brother and the woman he was legally married to were looking at a photo album and hadn’t noticed his arrival.

“Looks like it was a nice wedding,” Will said, flipping through pages.

“I thought so at the time,” Megan said. “I thought it was romantic that you—I mean he—wanted the ceremony to be on a beach, just the two of us. Looking back, I feel like an idiot.”

“You shouldn’t,” Will told her. “I’m the idiot who trusted Rich, gave him the room he needed to steal my life and to trick you.”

Megan laughed shortly. “You notice how we’re both blaming ourselves and not blaming the one person who deserves the blame?”

When Will smiled in response, Jesse was relieved to see it. There hadn’t been many of those smiles since Will came home. Maybe Megan and Will could help each other through the mess that Rich had left in his wake.

“Oh, I blame Rich all right,” Will assured her. “And I’m going to do everything I can to make sure he’s caught and thrown into jail for a hundred years.”

Megan took the photo album and closed it with a slap. “That’d be good.”

Jesse was beginning to feel like some Peeping Tom, so he stepped into the room and said hello.

“Jesse, hello,” Megan said. She was a pretty woman with bright blue eyes, brown and gold hair, and she always looked like she’d stepped out of a magazine. Her clothes, shoes and purse always matched. Jesse had no idea how women did that.

“Didn’t mean to interrupt,” Jesse said.

“You’re not,” Will told him. “We were just talking. Megan was showing me pictures of her wedding to—well, me, I guess.”

Megan sighed. “Not you. I know that now. Wish I had known then.”

Jesse nodded. “We’re all feeling that way, Megan.”

“You’re being very nice.”

“None of this is your fault,” Will told her.

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