Their warmth brought her emotions to the surface. “Thank you, but I’m the one who’s ecstatic. The day I met Walker at the dog parade in Markton transformed my life. Clay’s, too. He loves your brother.”
“Speaking of Clay, Mom and Dad are overjoyed they’re going to be instant grandparents,” Dusty confided. “Mom and Elly already love him. Whoever thought Walker would be the first of us to get tied down?”
“I know for a fact Walker didn’t!” Paula’s comment brought an explosion of laughter from his brothers. “To be honest I didn’t think it was going to happen. He ran so hard and fast from me, I didn’t know where I was half the time. It was a now-you-see-me, now-you-don’t kind of thing. He drove me half-mad.”
“That’s our Walker,” Dex said with a happy laugh.
“Until you got your arm hooked around him solid, like a good bulldogger, and brought him down for the count,” Jesse said, supplying the colorful metaphor. “Looks like you got things figured out.” It sounded like a private message for Walker, who grinned.
“She swept me off my feet and I didn’t have a prayer,” he murmured against her neck. “You guys will have to try it sometime.”
They all looked so horrified, Paula burst into laughter. Walker was silently laughing, too. She felt his body shake.
“It’ll happen when you least expect it,” she informed them. “There I was, minding my own business when this champion rodeo hero moved in with his trick hands and his trick moves.”
While Jesse chuckled, Walker levered himself from the cab. “Come here to me, darling.” He reached across the console for her. “Let’s make an appearance before Mom and Dad have to come looking for us. Then we’ve got other things to do.”
“Woo-eee!” the twins cried in unison.
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WALKER: THE RODEO LEGEND
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