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“Trevor? Honey, what’s wrong?”Trevor looked at Chassie. “My father had a heart attack.”“Oh no. When?”“A fuckin’ week ago.”Chassie’s eyes widened. “And they’re just calling you now?”“Apparently. Jesus. I can’t believe it. He’s out of the hospital and recovering at home.”Edgard said, “How serious is it?”“Serious enough that the old man’s requested my presence right away.” A bitter laugh escaped. “Or what he considers right away.”“What does he want to see you about?”“No clue. I hafta go tomorrow. Don’t know how long I’ll be gone.” He looked from Chassie to Edgard. “I’m glad you’re here to help her. Be just our luck if calves started droppin’.”“But…don’t you want me to come with you?” Chassie asked.Trevor sat next to her and took her hand. “Without soundin’ like a dick, you don’t wanna meet my family under these circumstances. Hell, I really don’t want you to meet them under any circumstances.” He squeezed his eyes shut. “Chass, baby, they’re not nice people.”“How can that be?
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“Same as last time.”“I’ll go get settled in. Is Pa up in his bedroom?” His parents hadn’t shared a bed for years—a fact they were both mighty proud of—a fact he couldn’t fathom since he shared his bed with both Chassie and Edgard in recent days.“He can’t climb stairs yet so he’s set up in the den,” Lianna said. “And he’s sleepin’ right now. I ain’t about to let you just bull your way in there and wake him up. The man had a heart attack. He needs his rest.”Just then a cowbell clanked from the vicinity of the den.Everyone froze.“Can’t anyone hear this goddamn bell?” the old man yelled and proceeded to ring the cowbell as if the den had morphed into his own personal bell tower.“Jesus. I hate that cowbell and it’s your fault for givin’ it to him, Lianna,” his mother snapped and stalked toward the mad ringing.Trevor didn’t jab Lianna for her lie. Instead, he started up the stairs.In the bedroom at the end of the hall, he tossed his bag on the floor next to the old wooden rocking ho
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Tater demanded their new home be decorated country cabin style, with exotic and domestic animal heads from his various hunting expeditions mounted on the walls and the space littered with his collection of mostly tacky Western art.Starla ignored Tater’s demands and decorated the house in the style of an English country manor, with chintz-covered chairs, plaid and floral couches, lace doilies, ruffles and bows.The result was pretty hideous, an interior decorator’s worst nightmare—Laura Ashley meets Conan the Barbarian. The horse scenes painted on velvet clashed with the velvet draperies. The rusted barbed wire folk art sculptures did not complement the classic Greek marble figurines. The grizzly bear skin rug clashed with the Oriental carpets. Trevor and Chassie were on the same page for how they wanted their home to look. Hard to be picky when money was an issue. After they’d first gotten married, she’d jokingly suggested they decorate in the theme of cowboy versus Indian to keep wi
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“No. But it ain’t like Ma and Pa don’t have the cash to hire a full-time nurse.” Trevor looked Lianna straight in the eyes. “You know why you’re stuck doin’ this? Because you don’t have the balls to stand up to them both and flat-out refuse.”Lianna’s mouth opened. Snapped shut.“I know I ain’t been around, so feel free to tell me to blow it out my ass, but if you don’t take a stand, your only function will be takin’ care of him while Ma smokes in the living room and does word searches all damn day. Is that the contribution you wanna have to the ranch? Think about it.” Trevor snagged his coat and wandered outside. Damn cold. He stamped his boots and had no idea why he’d left the warm comfort of the house.Comfort. Right. Not a word he’d ever associate with the Glanzer abode.He noticed Tanner’s horse trailer and ambled over, beating his fist on the door to the living quarters until a thump sounded inside and the door swung open.A shirtless Tanner squinted at him. “What the fuck, Trev
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Chassie sat in the same place at the kitchen table an hour later when Edgard returned to the house. He snagged a beer from the fridge and straddled the chair opposite hers.Finally she looked up. “You didn’t kill Greta, did you?”“No. Her reprieve might be short-lived though when Trevor catches wind of it.”Edgard took a long, slow drink and eyed the bandage on her forehead. “You should’ve told him.”“Leave it be, Edgard.”Edgard sighed. Not that he blamed her, but Chassie’d been extremely grouchy all day. Hadn’t helped matters hearing Trevor snap off the news he was considering his father’s offer to run the Glanzer Ranch on a permanent basis. Not that Edgard believed Trevor would follow through. It reminded Edgard that sometimes Trevor could be thoughtless and a little mean to those he loved just because he didn’t know better.“Sorry. It’s just…” Chassie sipped her warm milk, scowling when she realized it’d gone cold. “Trev didn’t seem the same.”“Trevor is different when he’s around
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“Your brothers and sister?”“Yep. He bribed a government official and the verdict handed down decreed we had to sell the homestead that’d been in my family for seven generations.” He closed his eyes.“I never once thought about cheating my siblings out of any money and they made me feel so…dirty for everything I was. Everything I thought they’d accepted about me. I lost my mother, my ancestral home, my family, and my…dignity.”“Edgard—”“The final cut was when my stepfather told everyone in my hometown selling had been my idea because I wanted to live in Sao Paulo with my male lover. I became a pariah. The church forbade me from even visiting my mother's grave.”She couldn’t speak.“So see. I know about difficult family issues. I’ve lost everything that ever mattered to me.”Except Trevor.Edgard didn’t say it; he didn’t have to.Her heart seemed to shatter into a billion pieces. That’s why Edgard had come back.Not to steal Trevor away, but to remind himself of something that’d been
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“I’m glad something is appealing, since I don’t have the appendage you prefer.”He smiled gently. “Joke all you want. But I understand now, maybe more than I ever did, Trevor’s confusion when he started having feelings for me. I have those same confusing moments with you, Chass. You’re not my type, yet I realize for the first time that you really don’t fall for a person’s gender or appendage so much as you fall for the person. And I’ll be damned if I’m not falling for you, Chassie West Glanzer.”In that instant everything between them changed.“I love him,” Chassie said softly.“I know. I love him too.”“What do we do if he really wants to make a go of it with his family?”“I don’t have any idea.”Silence descended as they stared at each other helplessly.Edgard withdrew and set her back on her feet. He kept his back to her as he pulled on his jeans and buttoned his shirt. “What are your plans for the rest of the night?”“Nothin’.” She snatched her jeans but didn’t bother putting them
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Carolyn didn’t glance up when she said,“Keely shouldn’t have told you.”“I’m glad she did, Aunt C.”No answer.Chassie crossed the room, her sock feet silent on the wooden floor. She sat on Carolyn’s left side. Click click click as the metal needles whipped the yarn into shape.Neither one spoke for the longest time, which was fine by Chassie. She honestly didn’t know what to say.Aunt Carolyn babbled, “I’ve been putting off finishing this baby blanket for Carter and Macie’s newest addition. You know she’s due any day, right?”“Right.”“The baby is a boy. Always a boy in this family, so I have every color of blue yarn you could imagine. I wanted something different for each of my grandchildren. Thane’s baby blanket is navy blue and Kyler’s blanket is turquoise. It’s so sweet Ky still needs that blanket every night before he can sleep even when he claims to be a big boy. Gib’s blanket is robin’s egg blue. Channing won’t let him have it in his crib anymore because she’s afraid he’ll ti
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