Texas Bossa Nova (Texas Montgomery Mavericks Book 5) by Cynthia D’Alba Read Free Book Online Page A

and started back up the hill toward the house.
    In Magda’s humble opinion, Reno was sex on two legs. She wanted to reach out and run her hand along the tight muscles of his butt, not that she’d do that. But she had in the past, and Lordy, she could remember how it felt…soft skin covering granite-hard ass. Totally yummy.
    She jerked her gaze back to Layla before Reno caught her admiring his backside. He might get the wrong idea. Or maybe not.
    She punched in her dad’s number. “Hi. How are you feeling?” she asked when he answered.
    “Good,” he said, his voice stronger than she’d heard it in a while. “Walked around a little outside today. Not too much. I have to go see Dr. Myles tomorrow.”
    “You want me to come drive you?”
    “Thanks, pumpkin, but Blanche’s going to drive me.”
    “So what’s the deal with you two?”
    “Deal? What do you mean?”
    “Don’t play dumb with me, Zeb Hobbs. A tiger doesn’t change its stripes. I’ve never known you to date the same woman for more than a month, and I’ve never seen you date any female close to your age.”
    He harrumphed into the phone. “You’re my daughter, not my mother.”
    She laughed. “Uh huh. I’ll change the subject. Ask Dr. Myles when you can drive again while you’re there.”
    “Why?”
    “I might need to borrow your truck for a couple of weeks if you’re not going to be using it.”
    “No problem. There’s not a truck at the D&R?”
    “Well, yeah. Sure, but…”
    “But what?”
    But she didn’t want to ask Reno for anything.
    “Nothing. Just being a little weird about the new job, I guess.”
    “Look, if there is any problem getting one of their trucks, of course you can come get mine. Now don’t you wish you’d bought a truck instead of that motorcycle?”
    She laughed. “You never miss the chance to bitch about my Fat Boy, do you?”
    “And I won’t stop until you sell it or I die.”
    She sobered at his words. “You’re not going to die.”
    “No, I’m not. So you better start writing up that ad to sell it.”
    “I’ve got to go. Let me know what the doctor says tomorrow.”
    “Sure. Magda, thanks for coming home.”
    His words dug a crater into her heart. “You take care. Talk to you tomorrow.”
    She clicked off and headed back to the house, wondering how big of a mess was awaiting her in the kitchen.

Chapter Five
    The truck issue turned out to be a non-issue. Reno handed her a set of keys the next morning with, “You’re going to need the truck to shop,” and then left with Darren, both of them on horseback. All the fretting for nothing.
    The payment issue was also resolved with a phone call to Parker Market. Once Reno explained the situation to the owner, he had no problem accepting the D&R credit card for Magda’s purchases.
    Magda spent the next couple of days doing deep cleaning. It was obvious Reno and Darren—one or both of them—had done some surface cleaning before she’d arrived, but there was still plenty of built-in and ground-in dirt that had to be dealt with. She didn’t mind the cleaning. In fact, she got pleasure out of it. She was positive most people would think her nuts because of that, but she had a to-each-his-own philosophy.
    Another tine in her philosophy fork was the dining situation. When she’d worked for Mitch, she hadn’t joined him for meals. She’d never known when he’d come home for dinner. Some nights it had been close to nine before he was done for the day, and other times, he was in by five and starved. Dinner at five she could have handled, but nine? No way could she have held out that late.
    Plus, his ex-wife, Joanna, had lived to make Magda’s life a living hell. Mitch and Joanna had been married when Magda had joined the household over Joanna’s strong objections. Joanna had resented Magda from day one. Even after Mitch and Joanna’s divorce, Joanna always found a reason to be back in Mitch’s house. If Joanna had found Mitch and Magda dining