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I’ve never stopped wanting him... I’ve just learned how to hide it.

I only plan to stay in Ridgemont long enough to help my mother recover from surgery. That’s it. A few quiet weeks in my small hometown, and then back to Denver, where life is safe, predictable, manageable.

But I forget about him...

Travis Rhodes, my best friend’s older brother. The quiet one. The dangerous one. The man who carries his family’s ranch like it’s stitched into his bones. He barely speaks. He bar...
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I’ve never stopped wanting him... I’ve just learned how to hide it.

I only plan to stay in Ridgemont long enough to help my mother recover from surgery. That’s it. A few quiet weeks in my small hometown, and then back to Denver, where life is safe, predictable, manageable.

But I forget about him...

Travis Rhodes, my best friend’s older brother. The quiet one. The dangerous one. The man who carries his family’s ranch like it’s stitched into his bones. He barely speaks. He barely smiles.

When a thousand-pound horse nearly slams into me, he’s the one who moves first. When a powerful buyer threatens the ranch, he’s the one who stands between it and everything that could tear it apart. And when he looks at me like he’s been holding himself back for years… I start to wonder how long we can keep pretending.

This was supposed to be temporary. Now the air between us feels charged. His touch feels inevitable. And the ranch, the one place he’s never let anyone fully claim, is starting to feel like home.

But if I cross the line with the one man I was never supposed to love… will he fight for me, or let me go before I can call this home?
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