To Love A Cowboy: A Billionaire BWWM Western Romance Read Free Page A

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significant other focused on work first ,
she thought to herself. She tried not to let it bother her, but it
did. When they first met, Bruce was only interested in taking on an
account here and there. He was a consultant by trade, having worked
for the big time Fortune 500 companies and deciding to walk away from
all of it to take care of his parents and the family farm.
    So she assumed that he would prefer to stay home and focus on helping
out at the farm. Something that was calming, slower paced, and would
keep him close by. But she knew that the travel bug bit him every
once in a while and that he would have to give in. There was no way
he could avoid doing one of the very things he loved to do.
    Bruce was a teacher by nature. He had a knack for pulling the very
thing out of you that you feared, and making you turn it in to the
very thing that motivated you. Although Kate always had plans to take
her business to the next level, she secretly had some doubt about
jumping head first onto the path to success. First and foremost,
Bruce had to convince her to rid herself of the need to prove her
naysayers wrong. He reasoned that could not be the driving force to
her wanting to be successful. The root of her desire had to have more
substance. Once she did a bit of soul searching, Kate came to the
conclusion that Bruce was right. She wanted to be successful for
other reasons and she had to let those reasons propel her.
    Kate believed Bruce had come in to her life at precisely the right
time. She had not believed that at first. In the beginning, she
thought she would have to forego a relationship with him in order to
nurture her career. And during the year they were together, there
were a few moments here and there where she thought her desire to
succeed in her career would overtake the feelings she had for Bruce.
    What she did not want to do was take advantage of his understanding
of what it was like to be an entrepreneur. Bruce knew what it was
like to be driven and taste success on the tip of your tongue. But he
had something that she did not have enough of. Restraint and balance.
    Maybe it was because he had already met his career goals and he was
living his second career. Mostly it was because that was the kind of
temperament he possessed. That cool demeanor had been precisely what
attracted Kate to him. Along with the fact that he was extremely
sexy. There was something about the wisdom in his eyes and the way he
wore his confidence with unabashed pride.
    She was happy for the fact that he had come into her life at the time
he had. Bruce was exactly what she needed and she would have to do
what was needed to nurture their relationship, even if that meant
committing a bit more time. She would have to find it somewhere,
somehow in her schedule.
    *****
    By the second day that Bruce was gone, Kate was feeling his absence.
She took advantage of the time to put in a few more hours at the
boutique. She had been working on individual clients for the past few
weeks and had been away from the boutique. It was nice to be back
working there with Linda. They had since hired on two other employees
since Linda's responsibilities had increased.
    Linda had been scouting an additional location for another boutique,
something that Kate was extremely proud of. There was no luck
involved in the explosion that was happening with her business. It
was all simply due to hard work and blessings.
    She and Linda agreed to close the boutique right on time so that the
employees could go home at a decent time. It was a Tuesday and there
was no reason for anyone to have to stay late that night.
    Kate was looking forward to a glass of wine or two and whatever was
stored up on her DVR. She envisioned herself curling up on the couch
with a good book and maybe getting to sleep before midnight.
    After the first glass of wine and a one hour show, Kate was ready to
fall asleep. She was jolted from dozing off by her phone ringing.
    "Hello," she answered