A Tender Touch: A Donnelley Brother's Novel (Logan Point Book 4) Read Free

though I were the variable for world domination.
    I didn’t like that.
    As a matter of fact, it made me feel a whole lot of uncomfortable.
    Taking a cautious step back, I demanded. “What are you looking at me like that for?”
    “No reason.” She replied sweetly.
    Sweetly! My best friend - my most serious best friend - was speaking in a sugary sweet sounding voice. Damn right, I was suspicious of her intentions.
    “Whatever you’re plotting, Kamilla Donnelley, you stop right now!” I shook my finger at her. “I don’t want to be embarrassed. I need a vacation - you know I need a vacation. Don’t you dare go about playing Cupid!”
    Kami snorted and I felt my eyes grow even wider - if that was possible. “Believe me, I know Cupid - it ain’t me.”
    I frowned. “Are you drunk?”
    “No.” She beamed at me. “But I could be?”
    “I’m sure.”
    She grabbed my hand, dragging me to the check-in shop. “What do you say we grab a few bottles of wine and meet up with the girls? You’re going to love them!”

Chapter 2
    “Don’t you think I should check in first?” I asked as Kami dragged me to a jeep. “I’d really like to get my stuff into a cabin.”
    “Are you sure you don’t want to stay with Kyle and I in the house?”
    “I’m sure.”
    “Really?” She sighed. “We could spend so much time together. We’ve missed so much in the last year!”
    I shook my head determinedly. “Not a chance, Kami.”
    “Oh, alright.” She huffed, dropping my hand dramatically. “I’ve already checked you into a cabin.” I opened my mouth to inquire that it was close to the barn, but Kami interrupted me quickly. “Don’t worry, it’s as close to the horses as I could get you - and that’s pretty damn close.”
    I sighed in relief. “Thank you, Kami. I really can’t wait to get on a horse. I can’t wait to ride. I just want to ride.”
    She nodded. “You can follow me in your car and we’ll get you settled into your cabin. Tomorrow, I’ll introduce you to Reese and Hadley.”
    “That sounds like a plan.” I said in relief as I started walking backward to my car.
    I waited until Kami had turned back to her Jeep - the one Kyle had given to her to drive after she’d ruined her car by hitting the ditch in a snowstorm. It was that story of how they’d met and how dreamily he’d taken care of her that made me fall in love with the idea of Kyle and Kami.
    Kami had been hurt. She’d been hurt deeply, but she’d never been broken - not like me. Kami was so much stronger than I was even with all the horrors she’d endured. I envied her ability to stand tall and strong in spite of all the hurt and chaos she’d experienced.
    Somehow, even though Kami had been hurt from the very beginning - her cards simply a shitty hand - she’d maintained the ability to hope for more. She had the ability to dream and to wish and to even accept when those dreams and wishes were granted. She’d accepted Rhett, a man, despite the fact that it had been a man who’d taken her mother from her when she was only a child. When Rhett hurt her beyond forgiveness, she not only forgave him, but she found the strength to accept Kyle, another man, into her life. She took him into her heart and surrendered herself to him in spite of all the pain she’d suffered at the hands of a man.
    The strength residing within my friend made my mind spin. I’d only ever been hurt by one man - but I’d never allowed myself to open up to any other since. The man who was supposed to love me regardless of anything and everything, had walked out on not only myself, but my mother. Since that night, I’d never allowed myself to openly trust another man. In my opinion, they were all the same selfish beings. I mean, if my own father could walk away from me - why would anyone else stay?
    Shaking the depressing thought from my mind, I pulled open the door of my car and lowered myself into the drivers seat.
    As I followed Kami in the Jeep over the