River Road (River's End Series, #4) by Leanne Davis

Author:Leanne Davis [Davis, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leanne Davis
Published: 2016-09-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

KATE FINISHED HER REPORTS for work, as well as the other pressing matters Greg had brought her. Stretching out, she took her coffee cup to the porch. It was about a hundred feet long and overlooked the entire ranch. She felt like a king surveying his kingdom. Pretty breathtaking place to live, she conceded. Learning that Jack gave it up for the much smaller, simpler house down by the river said something about him, didn’t it?

Her mother once slept there. It was a surreal thought. Had her mom really done this? Fallen for a cowboy and moved to River’s End? Did her mother also try to turn her fantasy affair, like the one Kate was having, into a real relationship? Here? On this ranch? It blew Kate’s mind to think that her mother had lived there for almost two full years. Her mother also enjoyed this same view. Possibly, her mother even touched this porch column. Did she drink her morning coffee while watching the sun filter its rays over the land?

Did her mother also realize it was many miles from anywhere and anything and anyone else? Especially back then, when they had no internet? Her mother must have felt very cut off. Remembering her chic, Seattle-loving mother was such a contrast; especially when Kate imagined her mother in her prim, pastel-colored suits and pearls…here? It didn’t compute at all. Was she trapped in a sex haze before she realized she was residing with stinky farm animals and enduring long days from dawn to dusk? The sweaty, dusty men probably became gross at the end of the day and maybe the allure of all that dirt eventually wore off. Kate wanted her mother’s ghost or spirit or karmic voice to channel through her. She wanted her mother to answer her questions. To teach her. Why? Why did her mother run off?

Was Kate doomed to re-enact her mother’s mistakes?

Kate imagined getting pregnant and becoming a housewife there. Never. She’d just hire help. She wasn’t her mother. Kate was dependent on no one and self-supporting, where her mother had needed constant care until the day she died. Perhaps that’s why Kate strove to become the complete opposite. She was autonomous to the extreme, and sometimes needed to prove herself too often.

Kate straightened off the porch rail when she spotted AJ crossing the yard. His arms swung at his sides and his stride was purposeful. He was headed straight for her. Was he pissed? She wasn’t sure because his hat, as always, hid his facial expression. Swallowing the last gulp of coffee, she grimaced when she tasted the grounds. Kate watched AJ until he reached the bottom of the porch steps, resting his boot on it as he grasped the railing.

“So it wasn’t really goodbye.” Kate retorted as she raised her lip, eyebrow and shoulders all in a Gee, isn’t that funny? kind of expression.

“No, I guess not.”

She set the coffee cup down. “AJ, why don’t you come in and we’ll talk

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