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“Is she?” She was fucking gorgeous.
Of course, I’d noticed Olivia was beautiful—and sexy, the sort of woman you wanted to do very dirty things to. But she was my brother’s fiancée’s best friend, and that was that. She was off-limits. There was no way I could bed her and not hear about it from my parents.
“What? You don’t think she’s cute?” Austin’s knowing smile was starting to grate on me.
“She’s okay. I mean, if you like that type.”
“If you like what type? Gorgeous and nice?”
“Am I going to have to tell Lucy that you’re talking about her best friend in that way?”
“Well, I’m just saying that you guys are probably going to be paired up for a lot of the events because you’re both single . . .”
“You’re not trying to set me up with this girl, are you? You know I’m not interested in getting married. I’m not even interested in having a girlfriend right now. You know there’s far too much going on at the ranch.”
“I know. You’ve got far too many cowgirls out there who want to date you. But who said anything about getting married?” Austin raised an eyebrow. “Methinks the cowboy doth protest too much.”
“I don’t have any cowgirls out there who want to date me. I just—”
“Dude, whatever. You’re the most eligible cowboy in all of Montana right now.”
“No, I’m not.” I growled.
“Yeah, you are. You’re the heir to a billion-dollar ranch.”
“You know Mom and Dad are going to split it amongst all of us. And trust me when I say that Horseshoe Ranch is not worth billions.”
“You’re the firstborn, and you know how it goes in the Hamilton family. The ranch always gets passed down to the firstborn. Well, the first-born son.” He smiled. “Poor Auntie Louise.”
“Poor Auntie Louise what?” I rolled my eyes. “Dad gave her a substantial amount of money. That’s part of the reason we’re in this situation in the first place.”
“Oh, we’ll be fine.”
“Yeah, not if we have to break up the ranch. We’ve got to—”
“Let’s not talk about business now, Beau.” Austin sighed. “I wanted to have a beer and just chillax tonight.”
“Aren’t you taking Lucy to the log cabin?” I just wanted my space, which was far too hard to get in a family of nine. Even though we lived on a massive ranch.
“Yeah, exactly. So I don’t want to get all stressed out when I’m trying to plan a romantic evening with my girl.”
“Oh my God, Austin. Really?” I stared at him as if he were a stranger. “I have never seen this side of you before in my life.” I made a face. “Are we in the ’50s?”
“Huh?”
“Who refers to their girlfriend as my girl?”
“Don’t be a hater.”
“I’m not hating. You just sound like an alien has invaded your body!” I couldn’t help but laugh.
“That’s because I’ve never been in love before.”
“Oh, kill me now. Go grab my Colt 45 and just shoot me.”
“Do you really want me to do that?” Austin laughed. “Because then I would be the heir of the entire estate, and I would be the richest man in Montana.”
“Dude, neither one of us would be the richest man in Montana. We’re very far from being the richest anything in Montana.”
