Return To Falcon Ridge

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Rita Herron

Год написания книги

2019

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He didn’t wait for a reply. Instead, he strode to the door, a smile creasing his mouth at the surprise on her face. Elsie Timmons might be stubborn, but she needed protection and help. And he was a man of his word.

Wherever she went, he would be right behind her.

AS SOON AS Deke Falcon left, Elsie locked the door behind him. The well of emotion she’d tried to bottle overflowed, tears running down her cheeks like a river.

She let herself cry it out. All the loneliness she’d lived with for so long had been needless. Being spirited from town to town, changing names, never making friends, being shut up with her father while he drank himself into a stupor. All for nothing.

How many nights had she lain in bed, unable to sleep, wondering why her mother didn’t want her? Why her father didn’t love her.

Then he had deserted her, too.

Rage unlike anything she’d ever known exploded inside her. How could he have been so cruel?

She doubled over, pain rocking through her. Her father had hurt her mother, destroyed all their lives because he’d been a selfish bastard. And all this time she had blamed her mother when her mother was suffering. She might have even thought that Elsie’s father had hurt her.

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