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Cowboy Surprise

Em Petrova

His jaw dropped at the pretty little vision in front of him. Pale brown hair with eyes the same deep green as the forest. Her oval face was flushed pink and her lips looked like she’d bitten them for the past five miles she’d driven.

He lowered his gaze further and stopped dead.

She held a sleeping baby in her arms.

“You’re a Dalton,” she said abruptly.

“Uh, yes’m. Are you looking for one of my cousins’ wives?”

“Yes. No. Nobody’s home—anywhere! And I need to leave right now. I’m late as it is and by the time I drive there, the bride will already be married—with ugly hair too, because of me!”

He blinked at her tirade, which he only understood half of.

He opened his mouth to ask more questions, when she stepped through the open door and thrust the baby into his arms. It gave an annoyed squawk at the treatment or maybe because Justus had never held a baby, even refusing to touch his latest squirming cousin when she was born. She was just too small and there was a good chance he’d break her.

The woman turned on her boot heel and started racing across the wide front porch.

Justus rushed after her, cradling the child. “Hey, wait!”

What the hell was happening? Was this the modern, country girl version of leaving a baby on a doorstep? He didn’t want the thing either.

She paused to twist and spread her arms wide. “It’s just for a little while, until Shelby or someone comes home. I’ve got a bride’s and three bridesmaids’ hair to do in two hours, and if I mess this up, I won’t have rent.”

Jaw hanging slack, he watched her supple curves as she jogged to her car and jumped behind the wheel. She backed out in a flurry of dust and was gone.

He stared after her for a long minute, stunned.

Well, this was just dandy.

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