Page 20 of Bred By the Cowboy

And I still have to be a dad to the rest of them. “Cash, it’s Willie’s turn, we’ve been over this,” I shout back.

Hectic and wild, it’s just another night at the Rowdy Ranch.

“Keep yourself together, I’ll call your mother,” I tell Dolly. “She and my dad should be able to hold the fort down while I take you to the hospital.”

“Both of them?”

“Yeah, do you really want to leave one person to deal with our pack of wild children?”

“Fair, there’s no way I’d be able to raise these kids without you, Angus.”

It all happens at a million miles an hour. I manage my kids’ TV dispute, call my dad, get Dolly’s bag, start the car, go back and deal with another dispute, make sure the stove is set to low so dinner doesn’t burn before Lucille can come and finish it, scold Cash for hiding the TV remote, keep Dolly comfortable, open the door for my dad, then finally get Dolly to the car and get behind the wheel.

I’ve been exhausted since all of this started, and I know I’m not getting any sleep anytime soon.

All I need to keep going is to look at Dolly, and remember that I love her more than anything else in the world.

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When Cassidy Jones shows up at the Burly Bar I know what I need.

Her.

Gentle in ways my calloused hands aren’t and tender in the ways I crave, there is no denying the spark.

She just moved to town to nanny, but after one night I want to be the one looking after her.

She’s never ridden a cowboy — let alone a horse, but it’s time she learns.

And I’m just the cowboy to teach her.

Burly is one town over from Home, WA where the Rough family lives. The Rowdy boys are their cowboy cousins. Get ready for them to lasso your heart!

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