“No need. We had a long talk.” Inez tipped her head. “She seems very protective of you. When I told her what was happening here with the stalker, she wanted to help.” Inez smiled as she handed the paper to Megan. “They’re on their way here.”
“What?” Both Megan and Garret nearly shouted the word.
“Aw hell.” Trey dropped his head.
Inez’s smile left her as her brow wrinkled. “Did I do wrong?” She looked at each of their faces. “They only want to be here for you.”
“No. You did nothing wrong.” Megan took Inez’s hand. “It’s just a surprise, I guess, that they want to come here.”
“They want to bring you home.” Inez turned her worried gaze on Trey and Garret. “To keep Miss Megan safe, they think it’s best.”
Megan’s hand slid from Inez’s and dropped to her side. Coming to take her home?
The men were silent and unmoving.
Inez clasped her fingers together at her waist.
“That’s wonderful.” Megan forced a smile for the woman’s benefit. “I can’t wait to see them.” She didn’t know how she could possibly handle her parents on top of everything else going on right now.
She turned to Trey. “Should we go? I want to be back in time to dig into whatever fabulous delicacy Inez is creating for us.”
Trey gave a somber nod.
Inez visibly relaxed. “Are you going to town?”
Trey took Megan’s elbow. “No, just to see Mom and Dad.”
She fluttered a hand. “Good. Stay close to home until everything is safe again.”
Garret opened the door and winked at Inez. “Yes ma’am.”
The three of them walked outside into the hot sun. Trey’s truck sat crooked in the driveway from the earlier aborted trip to Clear Lake. Garret helped Megan into the front seat as Trey started the engine and cranked the air conditioning to full blast.
Once they were settled, Garret slung his arm across the back of the seat behind Megan. “How are you doing, baby?”
She blinked a couple times. “They’re coming to take me home?” She gave a half-laugh. “I’m thirty years old. What are they thinking?”
Trey laced his fingers with hers. “We won’t let them take you.” He gave her a grin.
“Thanks.” Her laughter was real this time. “It’s just, the timing is so bad.”
“I don’t know.” Garret rubbed his thumb on her shoulder. “As long as we’ve got a goddamn circus going on, might as well bring in the clowns.” He glanced at her. “No offense.”
“You’re right.” She squeezed Trey’s hand and bumped shoulders with Garret. She’d take a leap, and see if she’d land in paradise. “If we can get through everything that’s happening right now, we should be able to handle anything in the future.”
“Yeah.” Trey kissed her temple. “I like it when you talk about the future, sweetheart.”
“We can have one, you know.” Garret kissed her other temple. “We just have to want it bad enough.”
Megan’s chest expanded in a warm, achy feeling that told her she was already in deep. She loved these guys, even after such a short time. She’d do anything for a chance at a future with them. But with the threat of the stalker, Patty and Derrick’s reaction to their unique relationship, and her own parents on the way here...
She couldn’t make promises yet. “Let’s take it one week at a time.”
Trey and Garret looked at each other over her head.
“Whatever you want, Megan.” Trey put the truck in gear.
“But you gotta know, we’re gonna fight for more.” Garret lifted a brow.
“I’d be heartbroken if you didn’t.” One step at a time. “Can I use one of your phones? I should call the hotel in town and make a reservation for my parents.”
Trey shifted the truck into gear. “I got a better idea.”
He didn’t want to settle her parents in the ranch house, did he? In the guest room right down the hall from them?
“You don’t mean...” Garret laughed. “Oh, they’re gonna shit bricks.”
She looked between them. “Who? Why?”
Trey winked at her. “After we talk to Mom and Dad and explain the situation between the three of us, we’ll inform them that they’re going to have company in the old homestead.”
“Oh, Trey, you wouldn’t.” Megan couldn’t imagine doing that to his parents. “They might kill each other.” A giggle escaped her lips. “Or worse, they might become best friends and never leave.”
Garret laughed. “Megan, baby, as long as we have you between us, there ain’t nothing else in the world that matters.”
A sweet burst of emotion choked her. She set her palms on her men’s thighs and drew strength from them. “That’s perfect then, because there’s nowhere in the world I’d rather be.”
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Double Her Temptation
Chapter One
Megan Shore couldn’t think of anywhere she’d rather be than right here, between her two men on the front seat of the ranch’s pickup truck. If only they weren’t heading toward the last place she’d ever imagined going.
Behind the wheel, her cowboy, Trey McGatlin, pulled the truck out of the ranch house’s driveway and onto the road. On her right, Trey’s brother, Garret McGatlin, bumped her shoulder. “It’s not gonna be that bad.” His smile didn’t reach his blue eyes, and he ran a hand through his wavy blond hair. He slid on his dark sunglasses against the noonday sun.
“For you. They can’t kill you.” She unknotted her hands from their death link in her lap. “They could easily kill me and hide the body where no one would ever find it.”
Trey laughed and rubbed her leg. Beneath his white straw cowboy hat, his dark blue eyes sparkled. “You’ve met our parents. They’re good people.” He steered the big, white truck over the bridge leading to the ranch’s buildings. Barns, sheds, huts, houses. All the important features of a western Texas cattle ranch.
“Once they hear what you have to tell them...” She glanced at herself in the rearview mirror. Her green eyes were wide. Her heart beat a little faster when she saw her own fear. Megan smoothed her long, wind-tangled black hair, wishing she’d brought a brush. She hated to talk to Patty and Derrick McGatlin looking like she’d just spent an hour tussling in bed with their two sons. Which she just had.
Did one of her men have a comb? Garret was a movie star. He had to have one on him.
Before she could ask, he pointed out his window at a big, square one-level building. “That’s the dining hall and rec building for the ranch hands.”
Trey pointed out his window. “The foreman’s house and the bunkhouse are right on the river.”
Megan leaned around him to see. “A pool?” She’d been on the ranch a few days, but hadn’t had time to see this section of the spread. Most of her hours had been spent with Garret and Trey in the big main bedroom of the ranch house.
Garret laid his arm across the seat back and rubbed her shoulder. “The ranch hands live here year round. Gotta keep them happy.”
“For some of them, this is their only home.” Trey looked at her for a few long seconds.
She smiled. Her men were trying to take her mind off the upcoming confrontation. She loved them for that, but she’d rather talk about what was ahead of them at the guesthouse three miles downriver. Trey and Garret’s parents were staying there while visiting from their retirement home on the Gulf of Mexico. The three of them were driving to the guesthouse now, to reveal something Megan had believed would always be a secret.
They left the ranch buildings behind and headed down a narrow road along the river. Mostly dry and waterless, the Silver Spur Ranch was the opposite of her small piece of land in western Canada. She loved it here, but the last twelve hours proved she’d brought trouble with her. She wasn’t safe from her stalker, even thousands of mi
les from home.
The Clear River flowed from nearby mountains, nourishing green vegetation along its banks. “So peaceful.” She’d do anything to be able to feel that peace herself.
“Sweetheart.” Trey took her hand in his big, callused one. “You’re safe. We’ve got security doubled. We’ve got the sheriff, the Texas Rangers, and Dad on the case.” He smiled. “Just let go of some of this tension.”
Megan looked down at the wicked grip she had on her cowboy’s hand, and eased up a little. “Tense? Me?” Could her life get any more stressful? “Not only is a stalker after me, but my parents are on their way to take their thirty-year-old daughter home with them...”
Garret snorted. “I can’t wait to meet them. This is going to be a hoot.”
She shot him a glare. “I’m glad you’re enjoying this.”
He shrugged and grinned. “Baby, you’ve survived on your own since you were seventeen.” He tugged her hair. “I have no doubt you’ll be able to survive your parents’ visit.”
Trey grunted. “Yeah, it’s just the whole mess coming at once that’s gotta be making you jittery.”
Trey understood her so well. “Let’s rethink this talking to your parents idea. We can wait until—”
“Uh uh.” Trey shook his head.
“We’re committed to this, Megan.” Garret removed his sunglasses. He leaned closer, looking into her eyes. “We want to do this for us.” He gestured to the three of them. “Having the folks backing us up, no matter what, is going to be important right now.”
“Plus, it’s the right thing to do.” Trey turned the truck as the road climbed upward.
On top of a rise in the land, a two-story light-green house sat overlooking the river below.
Megan’s stomach clenched and her lungs didn’t want to work.
Trey swung into the driveway next to his parents’ red pickup, and shut off the truck. The silence surrounded them and Megan could hear her heart beating.
“Let’s get this over with quick.” Garret opened his door, letting in a hot blast of dry air. He held out his hand. “C’mon.” His smile reassured her.
Trey nudged her with his shoulder. “Trust us, Megan.” Her cowboy winked.
Taking a deep breath, she reached for Garret and let him help her down from the truck. Her knees wobbled a little when she saw Patty at the kitchen window waving them in.
Trey opened the door into the modern little kitchen and gestured for Megan to precede him.
She stepped inside as Patty padded over barefoot, her pink-painted toenails matching her shorts and shirt. “Everything okay?”
Megan nodded, but couldn’t find the voice to speak.
“She didn’t get away from us.” Trey pulled off his hat and hung it on a peg beside the door. Earlier that morning, Patty had alerted her sons that Megan was thinking of running back to Canada. The men had raced back to the ranch house and convinced her, using all their charm and seductive appeal, to stay.
Patty nodded and smiled at Megan. “I’m glad.” She gestured to the pine table. “Have a seat. I’ll make some coffee.” She turned toward the counter.
“Mom. Wait.” Garret walked to Megan’s right side. His palm slid down her arm and he grasped her hand in his. “We want to talk to you and Dad.”
On her left, Trey stepped close and took her other hand. “It’s important.”
Patty’s eyes moved to Megan’s right side, then to her left. Her lips thinned. A wrinkle formed between her brows and she shot Megan a glare that sent a chill through her.
Megan’s vision chose that moment to blur.
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