Wild and Wrangled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #4)

by Lyla Sage

“I want us to go back to Meadowlark.” Dusty ran his hands through his blond hair. I couldn’t really see his face in the dark—only what was lit by the moonlight coming in our bedroom window. “Cam…I have a job.” “I know. We can go home when the season is over next week.” I heard Dusty sigh. “I…I don’t want to go home, Cam. This was my plan. I’ve been waiting for this my whole life—a chance to explore.” It felt like someone had kicked me in the back of my knees. “Okay,” I said, frustration bubbling under my skin. “But my plan was to go to college, and I changed it for you. For us.” “I never asked you to do that,” Dusty snapped. He’d never snapped at me like that before. Whenever we fought, he stayed even-keeled. I was the one with the temper. “But I did,” I snapped back. “And I regret it every single day.” “We talked about this before we came here, Cam. I told you that I was worried about you not going to school, that I was worried about us taking on too much too soon, and you brushed it off.” “Well.” I folded my arms across my chest. “I thought it would be different.” “Whose fault is that? I didn’t ask you to come here with me. I didn’t ask you to give up on school. I was ready to do the long-distance thing. I was ready for us to move forward that way.” “Okay, well, I’m sorry for loving you, I guess,” I said, hating the way it sounded coming out of my mouth. “Oh my god,” Dusty said, standing up from the bed now. “Are you kidding me? That is such a bullshit thing to say, and ...