“No reason to be. She wasn’t a lovable woman.” He hesitated. “Well, I’ll see you around, Mina.”

She laughed. “I’ll see you around. Dad.”

He flushed. Then he beamed. “I’ll work on earning that title.” He shook hands with Rogan and smiled one more time at Mina before he turned away and had one of the ranch cowboys drive him to the airport, where Rogan’s private jet was waiting to return him to Catelow.

“I think things are looking up,” Rogan told her.

She agreed, smiling. “They are, indeed. Thanks,” she added.

He shrugged. “My pleasure.”

“Did you know that he was applying for the job at my ranch?” she added.

“No. That was his own idea. But if I’d known, I wouldn’t have stopped him. He loves you, you know. He’s carrying enough guilt of his own.”

“I’ll write to him. Things will work out. They just need a little time,” she said.

He grinned. “They do.” He glanced over at Cort. “I like your husband.”

“I think he’s amazing,” she returned.

“I did notice,” he drawled.

She laughed. Her eyes met her husband’s across the distance that separated them. He looked back at her and smiled, too.

In that long, sweet look was a meeting of hearts as enduring as the land on which Latigo stood. Cort cuddled their firstborn close and started toward Mina through the crowd of family and friends. She met him halfway.

“Happy?” he asked her in a deep, soft tone.

“So happy that I can barely hold it all inside,” she replied breathlessly. Her hand touched their son’s soft tuft of black hair. “We have the whole world, don’t we, Cort?” she asked.

“The whole world, and then some,” he agreed.

She looked up into his eyes and sighed as she considered what a long road she’d traveled to get to this shared delight.

I’d do it all over again, she thought suddenly. I’d go through every miserable bad day of my life, just for this.

Just for Cort’s soft eyes looking down into hers with love, as he held their son in his arms.

Wealthy Jake McGuire could have any woman in town …but he wants divorcée Ida Merridan. But the bond he builds with the socialite is one deeper than the cowboy ever imagined…

Read on for a sneak preview of

Wyoming True by Diana Palmer

available November 2020 from HQN Books!

CHAPTER ONE

Jake McGuire was happy for Mina. She’d married a Texan, Cort Grier, who turned out to be a wealthy cattle baron. This was quite a surprise since she’d known him only as a working cowboy who was helping out on his cousin Bart Riddle’s ranch outside Catelow, Wyoming.

It had been an odd love story. Mina was a famous author of romance novels, who actually went on commando missions with a bunch of mercenaries who’d taken her under their wing for research. Cort Grier hadn’t known that. But he was wearing a mask, too, pretending to be a poor cowboy. It was only after she’d married him that she knew who he really was. Many adjustments had been made, but the two seemed destined for happiness. They had a brand new son named Jeremiah, and while Mina kept the family ranch in Catelow, which her father was now managing, she lived with husband and son at Cort’s enormous family ranch, Latigo, in west Texas.