Redemption (Cowgirls Do It Better, #1)
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Read between June 8 - June 8, 2025
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“Lock him down, Maddy, before a buckle bunny does. I’m begging you,” I said out the corner of my mouth.
Kayla
Gross
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that boy makes good food.” I sat down at the table. “Wife him up,” I murmured
Kayla
Gross
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A stunning, leggy blonde with sharp navy eyes in purple kitty pajamas…and no bra…was there.
Kayla
Leggy blonde is wild work
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I woke early and went out at sunrise to check on the cattle and greet the two ranch hands. I worked with them for a few hours before heading home. The house was in chaos as four women tried to get ready with only two bathrooms. Fights erupted but I managed to soothe everyone. Like a boss.
Kayla
Excuse me?
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“Hey Maximillian. Gimme a whiskey, or ten?” He laughed, a deep rumble. “Ten coming up.”
Kayla
Her mom died in a drunk driving accident like 25 pages ago
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Cowboys always thought they knew better than me about ranching and horses.
Kayla
Well you are verifiably clueless soooo
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Sadness like nothing I’d experienced for years had settled over me like a black cloud that refused to shift.
Kayla
Wattpad
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I needed someone to work for free because I couldn’t do it all on my own.
Kayla
GROSS??
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I needed someone with nothing to do and no other options.
Kayla
Coercion is the best way to get employees now. Barf
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“Also help out here at the ranch.” My mouth dropped open. She’s offering me a job and a home? “For free,” she added quickly.
Kayla
A job without pay is volunteer work, fam
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“You’ll work for free?” “Yes, I don’t care. I’ll do whatever you want, whatever you need.” This was how I could make it up to her, make it up to Charlie and all the girls. It was my penance.
Kayla
This whole thing is giving me the ick
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I gazed around the land, the trees lining the back of the property, my new home and this ball of ecstasy built in my chest.
Kayla
“Ball of ecstasy” next Shakespeare right here ladies and gents
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You didn’t tell me you were dating Booby Barbara,”
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My words were firm. There was no going back. Was my butt sweating? It felt like it was sweating. Could butts sweat?
Kayla
WATTPAD
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shot Leo a snotty smile as she left the room. He shook his head muttering something under his breath about women.
Kayla
Gross
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I grabbed a wine,
Kayla
A wine
Harpy liked this
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Just at that moment he looked up and through the window, our eyes connected. I squeaked and threw the papers I was holding in the air and ducked down onto the floor.
Kayla
It’s giving anime protagonist but in a bad way
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my best friend, Gertie,
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I beg your finest fucking pardon?? Writing a book you can choose any name and we went with GERTIE?
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I choked back a sob. A rare moment of vulnerability that no one could conjure in me but Gertie.
Kayla
I can’t take this seriously
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“Uh huh, strong huh? Like muscley?” I felt my cheeks heat. “Yes muscley, men have muscles Gertie!”
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It’s giving… written by a man
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I snuck back inside the house and dragged my ass upstairs where I put my comfy pajamas on and got into bed with my Kindle. It was a Friday night and I was in bed by 7pm. Boy, did I know how to party. I was so boring. Too tired and stressed and acting like an old lady.
Kayla
Ok don’t throat punch the demographic, says I, sitting in bed with my kindle at 7pm
Harpy liked this
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“I don’t know what’s up with her.”  “Try and get her drunk and find out.”
Kayla
Did i hallucinate the dead mom from a DUI incident or what?
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“I would never make a move. Jesus, could you imagine?” “I dunno. She’s been single a while, she might be desperate enough,” Max laughed.
Kayla
G r o s s.
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“Carlisle?” I raised a brow. “Like from Twilight?” She reared back. “Excuse me? You know about Twilight?” I shrugged. “Watched it in prison. And read it.”
Kayla
Ok this is like 5 books in a row for me now that mention twilight, if I had a nickel…
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the stunning leggy blonde
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This again
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checking out all the sexy timber they had. The smell of the wood seduced me
Kayla
Is this for real?
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And I had to watch him all shirtless and sweaty, doing manly things with hammers and drills and bits of wood that made my lady parts do a little dance, beg to make a little love, let alone get down tonight.
Kayla
Ok I’ll give it to her, this did make me laugh
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my pink Stetson
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No thank you
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I kinda wanted to stay in tonight and sulk, like a grown ass man,
Kayla
Jack’s got jokes. I do like him, despite the book being bad
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but we didn’t get to go out and do anything like other couples did and I was craving some normalcy.
Kayla
Sir you’ve been in prison for 12 years, please explain what you mean by “normalcy” for you
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Not for sexy time
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“Epiphany!” she guffawed. “You love him sssoooo much!” “You’re slurring.” “You’re slurring, my speech is impeccable,” she shot back.
Kayla
The casual drunkenness in this book truly is appalling because again CHAPTER ONE mom is ran down by a drunk driver
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When the lights came on inside the cabin, I released the breath I hadn’t realized I’d been holding.
Kayla
Wattpad Wattpad Wattpad Wattpad I’m CHOKING on it
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I needed a drink but I didn’t do that anymore and I wouldn’t again, which left nowhere for the anger to go.
Kayla
Ok so everyone else drinks literally daily except Jack who has evidently learned his lesson and has no issues or comments about everyone else’s reckless drinking
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“Have you ever done anything about it?” I shook my head. “Like what?” She threw her hands up, exasperated. “I don’t know, like try and move on? Go to therapy and work through it?”
Kayla
Does get an A in therapy and that’s the end of the book
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I pulled my phone out of my pocket and opened up Google and proceeded to search for therapists near you.
Kayla
Somehow I doubt this man has the money or the insurance to get therapy seeing as he’s been working for free this entire time and does like 2 shifts a week bartending
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He ate at my mouth,
Kayla
Disgusting visual
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“I decided to start seeing a therapist
Kayla
What a great world where it’s just so easy to do that as an part time employed ex convict
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We’d had another anonymous influx of cash which enabled us to get started on some of the basics.
Kayla
All the problems go away because of an anonymous influx of cash :)
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She stomped her foot like a teenager. “I don’t want to!”
Kayla
She is 31, bffr