This ranching heir wants it all,
including the woman who stands in his way!
Businessman Cash Outlaw has inherited almost all of his late mother’s Wyoming ranch…but still needs the fifty acres left to her former caretaker. As negotiations with beautiful, determined Brianna Banks become much more intimate, she reveals she’ll only sell him the property…if he gives her a baby! Cash’s counteroffer? That the mother of his child must become his wife!
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Two days
later, Cash flew his Cessna to the Laramie Regional Airport. He’d ordered a
rental car to be there when he arrived, and it was. Shifting his cell phone to
the other ear, he tossed his overnight bag in the back seat as he continued his
conversation with his sister, Charm. She was calling from Australia with her
condolences.
Charm had
tagged along with Garth’s best friend, Walker Rafferty, and his wife, Bailey,
on a trip to visit Bailey’s sister, Gemma, who lived in Australia.
“Thanks,
Charm, but you know the real deal with this. It’s not like me and Ellen had a
close relationship. Like I told Garth, I’m surprised she remembered I existed
long enough to put me in a will.”
Cash glanced
at his watch before starting the car and switching the phone call to the
vehicle’s speaker system. He would get a good night’s sleep, and be at the
meeting with the attorney in the morning at eleven. Then he would leave, head
back to the airport and fly home to Fairbanks.
“I need to
end the call, Charm, so I can concentrate on following the directions to Black
Crow. I’ll talk to you later, kid.”
As Cash
headed for the interstate, he thought about the conversation he’d had with his
father be- fore leaving. Bart was typical Bart. Even with six adult offspring,
their old man still assumed it was his God- given right to stick his nose into
their business when it didn’t concern him.
Cash had put
Bart in his place just that morning when he’d tried telling Cash to make sure
he got everything his mother owned because it was rightly due him. Cash had
made it clear to Bart that he didn’t want a single thing. He’d even seriously
thought about not showing up for the reading of the will. As far as he was
concerned, it was too late for Ellen to make up for the years she had been absent
from his life. The only reason he had decided to come was for closure.
The drive
from Laramie to Black Crow took less than an hour. He couldn’t help wondering
when his mother had moved to Wyoming. According to Bart, when she left
Fairbanks thirty-four years ago, she had moved to New York.
Cash saw the
marker denoting the entrance into Black Crow’s city limits, and recalled all
he’d learned from doing an internet search last night before going to bed. It
had first been inhabited by the Black Crow Indian tribe, from which the town
derived its name. The present population was less than two thousand people, and
most fought to retain an old-town feel, which was evident by the architecture
of the buildings. He’d read that if any of the inhabitants thought Black Crow
wasn’t progressive enough for them, they were quickly invited to leave. But few
people left and most had lived in the area for years. It was a close-knit
place.
He came to a
traffic light and watched numerous people walking around, going into the
various shops. As he sat there, tapping his hand on the steering wheel, his
gaze homed in on a woman who was walking out of an ice-cream shop. She was
strikingly beautiful. He couldn’t help noticing how she worked her mouth on her
ice-cream cone, and he could just imagine her working her mouth on him the same
way.
Cash drew in a deep breath as he shifted in the seat. She looked pretty damn
good in her pullover sweater and a pair of jeans. If she was a sampling of what
Black Crow had to offer, then maybe he needed to hang around for another day or
two and not be so quick to leave town tomorrow.
He chuckled,
thinking it would take more than a beautiful face and a gorgeous body to keep
him in this town. Besides, he doubted that even if he stayed he’d be able to
find her. He had more to do with his time than chase down a woman. Chances
were, she was wearing some guy’s ring. There was no way a woman who looked like
her was not spoken for.
The driver
behind him beeped his horn to let Cash know the traffic light had changed and
it was time to move on. Not able to resist temptation, he glanced back for one
final look at the woman and saw she was gone.
Just as well.
Author Bio
Brenda Jackson is a New York Times bestselling author of more than one hundred romance titles. Brenda lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and divides her time between family, writing and traveling. Email Brenda at authorbrendajackson@gmail.com or visit her on her website at brendajackson.net.
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