“True. Yeah. I think I’d like that. With you. Only with you.”

“I figured.”

“Well, we could start trying,” he said, looking at her keenly.

“Oh, I think it might be too late for that,” she said. “In fact, I think you might be a father by next Christmas.”

His jaw dropped. “You think?”

He immediately asked her to confirm it, and he took a quick trip to the store, returning ten minutes later with a small item. It was positive. And when he finished showing her just how happy he was, they lay together in their bed, and he held her close. “I’m so thankful that I got shot. And lost. Really, I’m just thankful for my rock bottom. Because when I climbed back out, you were there. And that was everything I needed.”

“You are everything I needed.” She touched his face, ran her finger along that scar on his lip. None of the bad things that had happened had taken him from her. And she was grateful for that. No, his strength, who he was, his integrity... It all brought them this life. She would always be grateful for that.

“For an outlaw, you’re a pretty good guy.”

“Only for you, Tala Everett. Only for you.”

And Tala could only smile, because what had started as a dark and stormy night, was leading to a bright and sunny future.

A life filled with all the love that they could ever hope to have, and give. And this was only the beginning.

ISBN-13: 9780369719423

Her First Christmas Cowboy

Copyright © 2021 by Maisey Yates

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