After the Storm (Cottonwood Cove, #5)

by Laura Pavlov

“So, are you a real cowboy?” a voice said from behind me, and I whipped around to see the prettiest girl I’d ever laid eyes on.

We’d always been explosive together. The way we loved. The way we fought. The way we existed.

“Presley? That’s your friend who shares your heart with me, right, Daddy? Her name is inked right by my name. We have the same birthday. We’re your two girls?”

I reached for her hand, and my eye caught on a tiny tattoo on the inside of her wrist. It looked to be a small bird. Raven.

“She got a tattoo on her wrist. This little raven. She said it was just something special she wanted. But years later, during one of our heated fights, she admitted Raven was a nickname that you’d given her. That it was a reminder of a time when she was

“Relax. I’m signing the papers and taking her home. How about you let the two of us end this alone? You’ve been present in our marriage enough, don’t you think?”