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this was
something she knew how to deal with; unlike her growing
feelings for the man who’d just asked her to be his wife.
She had some serious soul searching to do, and she knew
her only hope of concentrating on the decision she had to
make, was burying herself in her work.
Chapter 10
Laurie’s cell phone rang and she sighed heavily. For the
last several days, she’d been enjoying the pretense of being
Travis’s wife. His mother was a loving gentle woman with
a big heart who clearly just wanted to see her son happily
settled down. The fact that he’d jumped on board with her
plans had gone a long way in her sunny outlook on life.
She’d had her fair share of moments that had concerned
both Travis and Laurie as far as her health went, but they’d
known going in that the older woman was at death’s door.
Travis had been attentive, seductive and insistent with her
and the way he touched her every chance he got had made
her giddy. She’d spent a lot of time thinking about his
proposal and she’d wavered back and forth between
wanting to leap first and worry about the consequences
after the fact, and listening to that tiny voice inside her head
that said that it was an epically bad idea.
“Hello?” she said into the phone as she walked out onto the
front porch for privacy. If she was right and one of her
brothers were checking up on her, she didn’t want Travis’s
mom to overhear the lies she’d have to tell her siblings to
cover for what she was really up to. The one thing she
knew she could never do was tell them the truth. They’d
both be there in her face in a matter of hours, calling her a
fool and dragging her back home by her hair. That wasn’t
an option. She wasn’t ready to walk away from Travis yet,
and thinking about what that might mean scared her, but it
was the God’s honest truth.
“Where the Hell are you?” Eric barked in her ear. Laurie
could hear his children in the background and Jeff
grumbling a quiet apology on the other line. She sighed
heavily and made a fist around the deck railing.
“I told Jeff before I left,” she answered evasively. “I just
had to get away for a few weeks. Honestly, I’m fine you
guys.”
“Don’t give me that bull,” Eric scolded coldly. “I’m not
stupid little sister. I know you well enough by now… you
don’t leave your shop for anybody or anything unless it
involves another stupid choice with a man who has no
intention of making an honest woman out of you.”
Laurie had to bite back the words of argument that leapt to
her lips. She wanted to throw it in her brothers’ faces that
the man she’d left with had asked her to marry him, but she
knew if she did that, it would only open a can of worms
that she had no desire to deal with just yet.
“I’m not even going to dignify that with a response,” she
said instead. “Think about when Madeline first came into
your life, big brother. Did you see me trying to interfere or
warn you away from her because of your past? No. You
didn’t,” she answered for him when he only grunted in
response.
“Sooner or later, you are going to have to accept the fact
that I’m a fully grown woman, perfectly capable of making
my own decisions for my life. I’m not saying that your
accusation is true, but IF it was, it wouldn’t be any of your
business. You can tell Jeff that our deal is off and you
should know that when he was out of town, he was looking
for the surliest bull he could find to practice on so to take
his hits in order to be ready for rodeo season when it comes
around. Do with that information what you like.”
Having said that, she hung up without giving her brother a
chance to respond. Not wanting to take a chance on them
calling her right back, she flipped the phone to the off
position and headed back into the house to hang out with
Travis and his mom. After her confrontation with her
brothers, it would serve them right if she did just run away
and get married behind their
something she knew how to deal with; unlike her growing
feelings for the man who’d just asked her to be his wife.
She had some serious soul searching to do, and she knew
her only hope of concentrating on the decision she had to
make, was burying herself in her work.
Chapter 10
Laurie’s cell phone rang and she sighed heavily. For the
last several days, she’d been enjoying the pretense of being
Travis’s wife. His mother was a loving gentle woman with
a big heart who clearly just wanted to see her son happily
settled down. The fact that he’d jumped on board with her
plans had gone a long way in her sunny outlook on life.
She’d had her fair share of moments that had concerned
both Travis and Laurie as far as her health went, but they’d
known going in that the older woman was at death’s door.
Travis had been attentive, seductive and insistent with her
and the way he touched her every chance he got had made
her giddy. She’d spent a lot of time thinking about his
proposal and she’d wavered back and forth between
wanting to leap first and worry about the consequences
after the fact, and listening to that tiny voice inside her head
that said that it was an epically bad idea.
“Hello?” she said into the phone as she walked out onto the
front porch for privacy. If she was right and one of her
brothers were checking up on her, she didn’t want Travis’s
mom to overhear the lies she’d have to tell her siblings to
cover for what she was really up to. The one thing she
knew she could never do was tell them the truth. They’d
both be there in her face in a matter of hours, calling her a
fool and dragging her back home by her hair. That wasn’t
an option. She wasn’t ready to walk away from Travis yet,
and thinking about what that might mean scared her, but it
was the God’s honest truth.
“Where the Hell are you?” Eric barked in her ear. Laurie
could hear his children in the background and Jeff
grumbling a quiet apology on the other line. She sighed
heavily and made a fist around the deck railing.
“I told Jeff before I left,” she answered evasively. “I just
had to get away for a few weeks. Honestly, I’m fine you
guys.”
“Don’t give me that bull,” Eric scolded coldly. “I’m not
stupid little sister. I know you well enough by now… you
don’t leave your shop for anybody or anything unless it
involves another stupid choice with a man who has no
intention of making an honest woman out of you.”
Laurie had to bite back the words of argument that leapt to
her lips. She wanted to throw it in her brothers’ faces that
the man she’d left with had asked her to marry him, but she
knew if she did that, it would only open a can of worms
that she had no desire to deal with just yet.
“I’m not even going to dignify that with a response,” she
said instead. “Think about when Madeline first came into
your life, big brother. Did you see me trying to interfere or
warn you away from her because of your past? No. You
didn’t,” she answered for him when he only grunted in
response.
“Sooner or later, you are going to have to accept the fact
that I’m a fully grown woman, perfectly capable of making
my own decisions for my life. I’m not saying that your
accusation is true, but IF it was, it wouldn’t be any of your
business. You can tell Jeff that our deal is off and you
should know that when he was out of town, he was looking
for the surliest bull he could find to practice on so to take
his hits in order to be ready for rodeo season when it comes
around. Do with that information what you like.”
Having said that, she hung up without giving her brother a
chance to respond. Not wanting to take a chance on them
calling her right back, she flipped the phone to the off
position and headed back into the house to hang out with
Travis and his mom. After her confrontation with her
brothers, it would serve them right if she did just run away
and get married behind their
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