š„ Five years gone. One look at the boy and he knew.
Maggie Sutter swore she'd never return to Clearwater, Texas. But her grandmother's funeral, an inherited ranch, and the ghosts she left behind drag her home ā directly into the path of Beckett Hayes, the sun-browned foreman with a grudge the size of the state.
He's leaning against the barn when she pulls up. Older. Harder. Still devastating.
Then her four-year-old son climbs out of the backseat.
š "He's mine." Not a question. "Yes." The fury is quiet ā and that makes it worse.
Beckett works alongside her for days, barely speaking, his attention split between the cattle and the boy who follows him everywhere like a small determined shadow.
The resentment cracks the afternoon Cody tumbles from a hay bale and Beckett catches him mid-air, pulling him against his chest with a tenderness that steals Maggie's breath.
"You should have told me," he says that night, voice wrecked.
"I was scared you'd want him and not me."
He crosses the kitchen in two strides. Frames her face in calloused hands.
"I wanted you first. I never stopped."
Some homecomings are terrifying. This one is everything.
ā A gut-punch emotional cowboy romance with a fierce hero, a brave heroine, and the little boy who brings them together!
Rysa Blae is a passionate weaver of dark desires, forbidden fantasies, and emotionally charged love stories. Specializing in romantic erotic fantasy with heavy doses of obsession, power play, and taboo heat, Rysa crafts immersive worlds where boundaries are pushed and love is anything but gentle.
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