Wells Brothers
The Rancher’s City Girl
The Cowboy’s Baby Agreement
The Cowboy’s Second Chance Family
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RELAY PUBLISHING EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2020
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Blurb
At 30 and single, Mina Heath has made the biggest decision of her life: she wants to have a baby. After perusing the local sperm bank’s donor contenders, she’s stunned to realize that her favorite anonymous donor is someone she knows. Someone she had a painful crush on in high school. It’s been years since that heart-wrenching moment when she discovered Liam Wells didn’t reciprocate her feelings, but with the injured rodeo star and potential baby daddy back in town, it’s pretty difficult to ignore the hot cowboy. And it becomes impossible to ignore him when she gets stranded in his cabin during a snowstorm—especially when Liam suggests she try to get pregnant the old-fashioned way.
When the snow clears after their passionate night, Mina gives Liam a thank-you-very-much and heads home. But no way is Liam saying good-bye to Mina that easily. On the pretext of making sure the contract baby becomes reality, he ensures they get together as often as possible. After being a thrill-junky and in the limelight for so many years before his injury, he’s finally found a soft place to fall—right into Mina’s arms. Still, Mina is determined to do everything on her own and Liam convinces himself their no-strings relationship is for the best. Until it isn’t.
Could this cowboy be in love? And can he convince Mina—and himself—that he’s ready to settle down?
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Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Epilogue
End of The Cowboy’s Baby Agreement
Thank You
About Leslie
Sneak Peek: The Cowboy’s Second Chance Family
Also by Leslie
1
Bette’s Diner was warm and busy and bustling. The conversation over Thursday night’s special, which was meatloaf with a side of mashed potatoes, was all about the snow. Mina watched as Mrs. Jenkins clutched her husband’s arm and peered out of the front window, like the snow might come sweeping in off the mountains and attack her where she sat in front of her half-eaten meatloaf. “Howard, do you think it’ll be bad?”
“It’s not gonna be bad, Ellie.” Mr. Jenkins kept eating despite his wife’s death grip on his elbow. “Snow’s not even supposed to arrive until later this week. Haven’t you been listening?”
“You never know,” Mrs. Jenkins fretted. “Sometimes storms come in when you least expect it. Changes everything. We have to stay on our toes.” She glared out through the window. “Oh, Bette, what do you think?” Bette owned the diner and was working the evening shift. She stopped beside the Jenkins’ table and refilled their seltzer waters. “Do you think it’ll be as bad as they’re predicting?”
“It’ll be beautiful, don’t you think?” Bette ran a diner. She was unbothered by most things that came through her door. Had to be, in order to keep her sanity. “We’ll have to get the sleds out for the grandkids. I wonder if Rick put them up above the barn or in the garage. I’ll send him a message about it tonight. Or maybe we’ll ski. I love that fresh snow.”
Mrs. Jenkins was the only one in the diner who showed any signs of worry about the weather. For her part, Mina wasn’t worried at all. Not about the snow. She had other things on her mind. Like sperm.
Sperm, sperm, sperm. Never in her life had Mina imagined that she’d think this much about sperm. In college she’d thought about it the way all her friends did. It was something to be avoided, because the only thing worse than failing a class was failing a class and finding out you were pregnant by the guy who took you home from the bar after the football game. Mina had never wanted even a whiff of that risk. She knew better than most people how the world was. There was you, and there was everybody else, and none of them were going to help you unless they got something out of it. Plus, she plain didn’t need them. She’d do this herself, like she did everything else.
She shifted on the diner seat’s plastic cushions and scrolled through the list of sperm donors one more time. The world might be against her. Her own uterus might be against her. But that didn’t mean Mina didn’t want kids. On the contrary, she was desperate to have a baby of her own. She’d grown up with only her grandmother to take care of her. All that time, all those days when it was just the two of them, Mina had looked forward to the day when she’d start her own family.
Preferably with a man who loved her. For a while, it had seemed like one of those might have existed…but that had been back in high school, and there had been no available men back then. They’d all been boys. But boys could break your heart just as easily,
