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I was sharing everything, and I couldn’t seem to stop. He was a stranger, holding me in the street as I cried in his arms, but I couldn’t stop. “So, when I came to Hallow Ranch and you pinned me against the barn, you have to know that I wasn’t afraid. I was glad.”
His brows drew together.
“I was glad I got see something so beautiful in my dull, sad life.”
“What did you see?” he asked, his voice rough and thick.
“The smoke in your eyes.”
Chapter Eighteen
Denver
Thesmokeinyoureyes.
Jesus.
This woman. This enchanting, broken woman thought I was beautiful. I would have laughed at the thought if it didn’t hurt so God damn much.
“She back?” Beau asked as he walked his horse into the barn. I looked away from the house and focused on my boots.
“Yeah,” I answered, keeping it short.
“Why did she leave in the first place?”
Because I’m an asshole who can’t get control his fucking mouth.
Seeing her this morning, in my kitchen, holding my coffee cup, wearing that dress…fuck, that dress. She was a vision—adream.Since I was boy, I dreamed of a woman like her to standing in my kitchen the way she was this morning.
Then I learned her name.
Valerie.
Of course, her name had to be just a pretty as she was
“Why is she staying here?” Mags had joined the conversation.
I don’t know.
I just knew that I didn’t want her to leave.
Seeing her walk down to the street with those bags on her shoulders, her back to the ranch—to me—while wearing that dress…
That didn’t sit well with me.
A week ago, I would have let her go.
Now, I’m not sure I ever want to.
Thought we didn’t trust her?
“Den?”
Jigs.
My boys and I were in the barn, finishing up the day and putting up the horses. I looked up from my boots and focused on my horse. Ranger was chewing on an apple as I ran my hand down his neck.
“I don’t trust Tim Moonie,” I declared.
