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When Megan woke this ht outside And stupidly early So she had become accustos Megan had felt far better in the last week than she had for the last couple ht o’clock She figured this didn’t bode well for a baby who slept a lot Which o she had promoted Bethany to head bartender, and Bethany had taken over the closing shift, for the best For the last couple of shifts, Megan had gone into work at ten o’clock and ed the paperwork, then opened the Spurs at eleven She stayed until five and came home to have dinner with Nash Lord, she had never been so domesticated

All in all, the new schedule orking And her ees

Things were great Really great And being only one week from her second trimester, she was thrilled

Before she went in for her shift today, and after she fed the kittens, since they were noet food, she drove to her parents’ house That here she’d been sitting for the last half an hour while Moan rocked in the chair, staring out at the working cattle ranch, rubbing her little belly beneath her tights Maybe she’d becouest ranch now that her father’s ranch looked bareor ardless of the hard ti with all the bumps in the road, there was so much life at the Blackshaws’ ranch now At Irish Creek, it was—and always had been—nose to the grindstone, hardworking cowboys, getting the job done or else they’d be fired

Megan smiled down at her belly, and the baby she couldn’t wait to otten her father’s work ethic, but her an had worked her ass off toa step back and seeing her eht noas creating a good world for her baby to enter And that wouldn’t happen if she was spending all her time at the Spurs

“You’re glowing,” Molasses of lemonade Homemade And to die for “Did you know that?”

“I’an confirmed

Monancy looks good on you” She dropped a kiss to Megan’s forehead “Does that also round?”

Megan shrugged “They’re both trying That’s all I can ask At least now I feel like finding some peace is possible”

“You’ve done a good job through all this, honey” Mo Don’t doubt that”

For the first tiht that was a possibility Not that Nash and her father would

ever truly get along, but that they loved her enough to tolerate each other “For a long ti the right thing,” Megan admitted to her mom “They only saw their pride”

“They are men, sweetie” Mom smiled

Megan laughed “True enough”

“My beautiful girls,” Dad called