Lost and Lassoed (Rebel Blue Ranch, #3)

by Lyla Sage

“You think that it’s okay for people to depend on you, but you don’t want anyone else to have the pressure of you depending on them.”

Both of us take care of other people, our families, our friends—you—and that makes us the only people who know how to take care of each other. It makes us good for each other. It makes what we’re doing worthwhile.

Or would we see what would bloom from the seeds that had been planted this summer? Would we discover our own new type of flower, wild and unexpected and ours to behold? Or would it wither on the vine? I just didn’t know.

“It’s okay to love her, Gus. It’s okay to want her. It’s okay to want. You have so much love to give, Gus. I see it in the way that you love our daughter and in the way you care for your family—me included—and I just want you to have someone who can love you back the same way.”

I watched my daughter collide with the woman I loved, and I watched the woman I loved catch her. I watched them laugh and smile at each other, and then I watched them clasp hands and start walking toward me—the luckiest man alive.

“I don’t have much to offer,” he went on softly. “Just a quiet life with a grumpy man from a small town, but I can promise to love you every day.”