Wild and Wrangled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #4)

by Lyla Sage

Because nothing lasts forever, you know. Not even goodbyes. Welcome home.

<3

that we would be as happy as we could be.

Ah bah ca commencait mal ma belle

like a river,

Shannon ?

“Ash?” a voice said. I straightened my spine. I’d know that voice anywhere. If I had slipped into a coma, it would wake me up. If I was six feet under, I’d dig myself out of the grave just to be closer to it, which was dramatic and startling and tragic and stupid. But it was true. “It’s just me out here,” he said. “The bar’s cleared out.” I’ll love you until we’re dust in the wind, Camille Ashwood. “I’m here, Cam.”

Ok omg

She broke my heart a million times after that, too, and time never did what it was supposed to do: heal or whatever. Cam was an open wound, and time was salt.

Ok intrigued

Fifteen Years Ago

OMG OUI DES FLASHBACKS MA PASSION

He gave me an exaggerated wink. “You have no idea, Ash.” “Stop flirting with me while I’m still in my wedding dress.”

Omg et mdr

“Can you, um, unzip me?”

Hiiii non je kiffe deja trop

“What’s the towel for?” she asked after a second. “In case you wanted to get your hair wet,” I said. Cam tilted her head in question. “Your hair . . . you don’t like it when it’s straight.” I shrugged. “I know you’ll say it’ll be frizzy or whatever, but the extra water and towel are there—if you want them.”

Ok je suis in love de dusty

“Booth,” Cam and I said at the same time.

Soulmates

“Does she already know whose hands the house will fall into if that happens?” “She does, and they’ve agreed to these terms.”

Dusty mdr

“He’s local. It’s Dusty Tucker.”

Omg neighbours

Dusty was my first everything, but not in just a first love way. He was my first real friend. He was the first person who cared enough to get to know me, who peeled back the layers I had drawn around myself and liked what they saw. He made me want to like myself, too.

He’d finally found his nickname for me, the one that made him feel special. I didn’t tell him that he already was.

Mow

I watched the blush creep up Cam’s cheeks. I swear, that was one of my favorite colors.

Ok lover boy

“Ash, even after everything went sideways, I didn’t stop wanting to be with you. I didn’t stop missing you. Adjusting to a world without you in it sucked,”

Omg

“Even months and years later, when something happened to me or I had something that I wanted to talk about, you were the person I wanted to tell. So I did. I wrote notes like I used to.

Mimi

how fucking annoying it was that you hadn’t faded from my mind or my heart—even a little bit.

Omg

“The notes made you feel real. I needed it all to be real for the pain to be worth it.”

Bb

Do you like olives?” I wrinkled my nose. “No, not at all.” “Teddy doesn’t, either, but my mom and dad do,”

La theorie!!!

Dusty put a hand on my cheek and looked straight into my soul. “I’ll love you until we’re dust, Camille Ashwood.”

“Everything,” I whispered. “I want you to be everything.”

Omggggggg

“I missed you,” he said against my mouth. “I missed you every day.” I gripped his shoulders. “I’m here now,” I said. “We’re here now.”

<3

“Of course I want you here, Cam, but I don’t want you here if you don’t want to be here. I worry about you all day, every day. I hate that you’re here by yourself, but you don’t do anything to change that. I can’t be responsible for both of us. I’m barely learning how to be responsible for me.”

Facts

“Then I’m done.”

Noooo

Dusty, I found a bus that goes to Jackson Hole. Good luck with your plans. Cam

Mais non horrible

I’ve always been able to see my life with or without them, but even though I’ve tried, I’ve never been able to see my life without you.”

Ok omg

There’s a reason that rearview mirrors are small and windshields are big.”

Ptdr ok le sage

I didn’t want that to happen.” “Why?” “Because it was your dream house,”

Aww

“I need you to go,” I said calmly. “Cam . . .” Dusty tried to reach for me. “You should go. Just leave. That’s what you do, isn’t it?” “Please don’t say that, Ash. I came back . . . for you.” That’s when I delivered the landing blow. “Yes, you did. But you should have stayed gone.”

Nooooo horrible

Ash, I know I should’ve told you about the house. I’m sorry I made you feel like it couldn’t be yours because of me. I hope this makes up for it. The box is for you. I love you. Dusty

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii

“I love you madly and deeply. I love you in ways that people don’t believe exist in real life. I love you for who you’ve been and who you are and who you’re going to be, Ash.”

Im dead

“You got it, wife.”

PARDON WIFE??????????

Wedding

HIIII OUI

But before he started reading the words in front of him, he stopped. “I’m sorry,” he said as he looked at me. “You look so beautiful. I just need a quick one.” I was confused, until he leaned down and kissed me—just a peck . . . until it wasn’t, and then I was bunching my hand in his shirt and holding him to me.

Mdrrrrr