Colton Cowboy Standoff
Two exes reunite.But now danger rocks the family ranch…Years after ending her relationship with Wyatt Colton, Bailey Norton has an unexpected request: to father her child. Bailey must now resist Wyatt’s allure—and show her true grit when the ranch is mysteriously sabotaged. Can this Colton cowboy lasso the culprit and a forever family?
Читать Colton Cowboy Standoff онлайн беплатно
Two exes reunite as danger rocks the family ranch.
A Coltons of Roaring Springs romance
Years after ending her relationship with her husband, Wyatt Colton, Bailey Norton shows up on his doorstep with an unexpected request: to father her child. Unresolved passion sets off sparks between them, but Bailey must resist Wyattâs undiminished allureâand show her true grit when the Colton ranch is mysteriously sabotaged. Can this Colton cowboy lasso the culprit and a forever family?
USA TODAY bestselling and RITA® Awardâwinning author MARIE FERRARELLA has written more than two hundred and fifty books for Mills & Boon, some under the name Marie Nicole. Her romances are beloved by fans worldwide. Visit her website, marieferrarella.com.
Cavanaughâs Secret Delivery
Mission: Cavanaugh Baby
Cavanaugh on Duty
A Widowâs Guilty Secret
Cavanaughâs Surrender
Cavanaugh Rules
Cavanaughâs Bodyguard
Cavanaugh Fortune
How to Seduce a Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh or Death
Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk
ISBN: 978-1-474-09353-8
COLTON COWBOY STANDOFF
© 2018 Harlequin Books S.A.
Published in Great Britain 2018
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF
All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental.
By payment of the required fees, you are granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right and licence to download and install this e-book on your personal computer, tablet computer, smart phone or other electronic reading device only (each a âLicensed Deviceâ) and to access, display and read the text of this e-book on-screen on your Licensed Device. Except to the extent any of these acts shall be permitted pursuant to any mandatory provision of applicable law but no further, no part of this e-book or its text or images may be reproduced, transmitted, distributed, translated, converted or adapted for use on another file format, communicated to the public, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of publisher.
® and ⢠are trademarks owned and used by the trademark owner and/or its licensee. Trademarks marked with ® are registered with the United Kingdom Patent Office and/or the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market and in other countries.
To
Every couple
Who had their hearts set on a baby
And found that the path was not always that easy.
Contents
âHello, Wyatt. How are you?â
The womanâs low, melodic voice hypnotically wove its way into his bloodstream.
Wyatt Colton stood in the doorway of the Crooked C ranch house, completely speechless and trying to remember if heâd somehow gotten drunk last night without having any memory of it.
But he knew he hadnât.
Heâd cleaned up his act several years back, substituting work to numb himself instead and to blanket the hurt heâd felt when sheâd left him. Last night, like so many other nights, heâd been dead tired and had just fallen into bed, still dressed with his boots on.
The same way heâd woken up this morning.
But a hallucination was the only way he could explain why he was suddenly seeing Bailey, tall, golden-brown-haired and beautiful, standing on his porch, talking to him as if it was just any other day.
As if nothing had ever happened.
As if she hadnât ripped his heart out of his chest, breaking it into a million pieces when sheâd suddenly walked out on him and on their marriage without giving him even a single warning regarding her intentions.
He felt as if heâd been torpedoed when the divorce papers had arrived in the mail.
âStunned,â Wyatt finally said, answering his ex-wifeâs question when he was finally able to find his tongue and get it to work.
His tongue might be working but his brain was another story.
The first year after Bailey had left, heâd kept fantasizing about situations like this one. Scenarios in which he would open his front doorâthe door of the ranch house they had begun to build togetherâand find Bailey standing there. Sometimes repentant and contrite, other times smiling through tears, but always telling him that sheâd been wrong to leave him. The scenarios would always end with Bailey throwing her arms around his neck and him forgiving her as he lost himself in the sweet taste of her lips.
