WHISKEY MOON: A Marriage Pact Romance by Renshaw Winter

Author:Renshaw, Winter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

18

Wyatt

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Blaire doesn’t show on Thursday—not that I expected her to. I finish my morning chores and head to the house for a quick lunch. The rumble of a car down our road steals my attention for a second, but it’s only the mail carrier.

“So what happened with Blaire yesterday?” Mama asks once I’m inside.

“Nothing at all.” I opt not to explain that Blaire asked to see the line shack and as soon as I told her it wasn’t a good idea, she went off on me and left. It was for the best anyway. We couldn’t keep doing this. It’s too risky for her to come around here. If her father hasn’t caught on yet, he will soon.

“Mm hm,” she says under her breath as she pours two glasses of iced tea. Taking a seat, she rests her elbows on the table and looks me square in the face. “I’ve been meaning to ask you something.”

“All right.”

“You told me your breakup was a mutual thing,” she says. “But Blaire told me you just … wrote her off.” Mama flicks her wrist. “Care to tell me what really happened?”

I grab a sandwich from the platter before me. “No.”

She huffs. “You lied to me. You know how I feel about liars.”

I fill my mouth with food to keep from having to respond.

“Now, I get that you were just a kid. And we lost your daddy around that same time, so maybe you were going through something. But why all the lies, Wyatt? Lord knows I raised you better than that.”

I wash my bite down with a cold gulp of tea and clear my throat. “What’s done is done. It’s in the past. It’d be in everyone’s best interest to let it go and move on.”

“What, like you have?” she snickers. “You haven’t so much as looked at another woman since the two of you broke up. Is this about … do you not like … are you into men, Wyatt? Because if you are, it’s okay.”

Mama snakes her hand across the table, weaving between glasses and cutlery, and places her palm over mine.

I jerk it back. “No, Mama. I’m not into men.”

“All I know is that girl loved you. I mean, really loved you. With all your faults and everything. I have half a mind to think she still does.”

“Well, she shouldn’t.”

“And why the heck not? You’re both grown now. She ran off and got her education and because of you this farm is more profitable than it was the whole twenty years your daddy ran it. Maybe it’s time you went off and got yourself your own plot of land, start your own operation. Been thinking maybe it’s time to sell … finally retire.”

My jaw flexes. “You really think Abbott will let you sell it?”

“Why wouldn’t he? We haven’t missed a single payment.”

“Yeah, but Mama, you weren’t buying the property back from him—you were leasing it. He owns this place. Every tractor, every acre, every last head of cattle. If you want to sell it, you’ll have to buy it back from him first.

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