Wild at Heart (Wild, #2)

by K.A. Tucker

“I got the information from town records.” It took me several calls and an afternoon of digging through archives to find the original homestead filing from 1965, made by Roy’s father—Richard Donovan. It took me another week to track down the names of his late mother and younger brother, because I knew that if I asked, Roy wouldn’t give them to me. The plaque is modest—cast in aluminum and engraved in acrylic, noting the year the cabin was built and the four family members who first lived here.

“Where do you want it?” he answers, his voice more gruff than usual. “Just outside the door. Wherever you think it’d look best. I trust you.” His eyes flash to me, and an emotion I can’t read fills them. And then he simply nods. That’s as much as I’ll ever get from Roy Donovan.

“Oh, you wouldn’t happen to have a ten-person, live-edge dining table I could buy off you, would you?”

His gaze cuts to me before shifting back to his work, the corners of his mouth curling upward. “I think I might.”

He peers back over his shoulder. “You ready?” “Probably not.” Jonah likes to ride this thing at full throttle. As with everything he does in life, it seems. But that’s who he is. He’ll always be wild at heart, and there is no way to tame or change him. Not that I would ever want to. I smile. And I hold on tight.