Love in Montana (De La Fuente Family 1)

She was a looker, all right, but married.

“We’ll let you carry on while we go and discuss business,” their dad said, as he led Sarah toward his office.

“Will you grow up?” Eric scowled at his brother.

“What’d I do?” Diego complained.

“You’re tongue was hanging out, bro,” Kasey pointed out.

They dropped back into their seats.

“Did you see her skin? So white, and those freckles,” Diego drooled

“Stay the fuck away from her Diego. She’s married in case you hadn’t noticed.” Aiden left them speechless with his sharp words as he walked through and straight out the front door.

“As though I’m going to go after her.” Diego ran his hands through his hair. “Fuck, she’s married. I don’t fuck married chicks. Ever.”

Eric winced with his brother’s choice of words. He only hoped that Diego’s voice didn’t carry through to his father’s office, or the kitchen. He’d have Lucia on his case if it did, not to mention it would embarrass the young vet.

“So,” Kasey started, “Fuck and chicks reminds me of yours,” he said looking at Eric.

His brother was trying to piss him off and was going about it the correct way. Sylvia was no chick, she was the woman he loved and his brother would do well to remember that fact. He decided to ignore Kasey before he took his anger out on him. It wouldn’t take much with him dissing Sylvia.

“Okay. You don’t have to say any shit. I’m sorry.” Kasey stood. “I’m going to find my hockey skates, and then the lake.”

“You need to loosen up and go tell her what you feel before someone else snaps her up. She’s a gorgeous woman.” Diego interrupted as he turned the TV on and started watching a Fast and Furious movie.

He did need to chill, but when everything was up in the air with Sylvia, he couldn’t. He just wanted his woman in his arms.

Chapter Thirty-One

Over the past two weeks since he’d screwed up with Sylvia, Eric was finally back in Lexington. He’d always intended to come back for the woman he loved, but he’d had plans to make first. Plans that he hoped would tell Sylvia just how much she meant to him.

He had a secret project underway, as well as a McKenzie construction crew on loan. With Yuri’s help in the beginning, he’d managed to locate and purchase the house in the country that Sylvia had set her heart on. It was surprising how quickly a sale could be final when you had the money to make a cash purchase, especially when that cash purchase was an extra ten percent on top of the listing price.

The last photographs he’d been sent of the renovation work had arrived late last night. Not long after he’d received a call from Ramon telling him to get his ass back to Lexington because Sylvia needed him.

His heart had been in his throat ever since, and more so because he couldn’t reach Sylvia, Talya or Yuri. He knew that Sylvia and Talya would ignore his calls, even though he had hoped otherwise. But Yuri? The first week that Sylvia had been back in Lexington, Yuri had been his only way to check up on her and the big Russian, although disgruntled and pissed, had been good enough to keep him up to date. Yuri would collect on that favor no doubt.

So as he pulled up outside the apartment Talya and Sylvia shared, his heart was about to beat out of his chest with apprehension at what he might find. Probably why he dragged his feet up to their apartment.

He didn’t need to knock because Talya came barreling out, and nearly knocked him on his ass.

“Oh, it’s you,” she commented dryly, shoving out of his steadying hold. “What are you doing here?”

“What’s wrong with Sylvia?”

Her eyes shifted and she tried to pass him without looking at him. He reached out and stopped her.

“Talya, please. Ramon told me that I needed to get back because Sylvia needed me. What did he mean by that?”

“You made your choice with your words and by staying away. So I’m not answering.” She really was refusing to look at him so he stepped in front of her.

“I love her.” He shoved his hands through his hair in frustration. “I love her, Talya. I didn’t come back straightaway because I needed her to miss me like I did her. I needed her to want to see me again when I did come to see her.” He started to pace. “But then I rea

lized I needed to use actions as well as words, and with Yuri’s help, I’ve done that. Please don’t ask me to tell you what I’ve done because I don’t want word getting back to Sylvia. Just know that I’ve done it because I want her permanently in my life because she’s everything to me.”

“You screwed up,” she finally met his gaze.