Lady Luck (Colorado Mountain, #3)

by Kristen Ashley

I was sitting outside a prison in southern California in my 2011 electric blue Charger with the two wide, white racing stripes that went up the hood, over the roof and down the trunk and spoiler waiting for a man named Ty Walker to be released from prison.

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Walker stared at the note thinking that Alexa Berry… Strike that. Alexa Walker was fucking funny. Then he stood there staring at the note thinking how much he liked the name Alexa Walker. Then he stood there staring at the salutation of the note and thinking the bitch was a goof but also thinking he liked that.

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“Shit, what’d I do that I walked outta that nightmare straight to you?” he murmured. “I don’t know,” I replied. “The same thing I did to drive out of mine straight to you.” Again, at my words, his big body stilled but this time it went completely still, immobile, like he wasn’t even breathing. “Though, I took a detour to the beach,” I added. And that was when I knew Lady Luck had started to like me. Because three seconds later, Ty Walker threw back his head and burst out laughing. And I got to watch.

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Then he asked quietly, “Nightmare?” “Nightmare,” I replied firmly. Ty didn’t move. By a miracle, I held it together. Then he moved but it was to rest his chin on my shoulder and I closed my eyes because I needed him to go, go, go so I could fall apart again on my own. Then he said, “Your nightmare, mama, was my dream.” My heart clenched. He kept going. “Never had a home until you gave me one.” My breath started sticking. “Never had anyone give to me the way you gave to me.” My breath stopped sticking and clogged. “Never thought of findin’ a woman who I wanted to have my baby.” Oh God. “Never had light in my life, never, not once. I lived wild but I didn’t burn bright until you shined your light on me.” Oh God. “Whacked, fuckin’ insane, but, at night, you curled in front of me, didn’t mind I did that time that wasn’t mine ’cause it meant I walked out to you.” He had to stop. He had to. He didn’t. “Your nightmare,” he whispered, turned his head and against my neck he finished, “my dream.”

🥺KA gets me every time😭