Читать книгу Last Chance Cowboy - Leigh Riker, Leigh Riker - Страница 3
Оглавление“Because of you, my brother will never have a ranch or anything else to lose.”
Shadow blinked back sudden tears. She hadn’t cried since she was seventeen. She wouldn’t cry now.
People in the diner were openly staring. She and Grey were clearly the stars of the town’s reality show. Their waitress came to take their orders, but Grey waved her off. He waited until they were alone again. “I didn’t...kill him, Shadow. You either believe me or you don’t, which you obviously still don’t.”
“Neither does anyone else.”
“If I had any way to prove myself to them, to you, I would.” He paused, eyeing her with those sharp blue-green eyes. “Come on,” he said. “You and I were a couple once. We even picked out baby names.”
Shadow knew she’d just turned pale.
“Why did you come in here today?” Grey asked. “I doubt it was to have lunch with me.”
“I—” She caught the pointed gaze of a woman in the booth across the aisle. “I have something to tell you. It’s important.”
“Fine. Let’s take this outside.”
Yet how would she find the words to tell him after all these years?
