“It’s. He’s such an excellent man. I hope the ability he’s in might help him.”

Piers let his fist swing to his aspect. “Suppose he’ll ever return to the ranch?”

Maggie shrugged. “I don’t know. And don’t share what I simply advised you. Hugh advised me in confidence as a result of I needed to get the paperwork so as and change the consumer to someone else. Now—to the workplace, Piers. Earlier than we each catch hell.”

Piers despatched one other lengthy look at Ash earlier than strolling out of the barn with Maggie. All the best way to the workplace, his thoughts raced, trying to find the explanation why he’d be known as in. If it needed to do with Avril, he simply would possibly lose his shit. He wasn’t going to clarify once more how he hadn’t fucked the lady, not to mention fathered her little one.

Nevertheless, there was a girl who would possibly proper this minute be carrying his child. Or Ash’s.

As quickly as he entered the workplace, Hugh was there to fulfill him. With a twitch of his head for him to comply with, Hugh turned and vanished into the convention room.

“Shut the door.”

He did. Goddamn, he hated being within the scorching seat. A minimum of in highschool, he might snicker about no matter it was that he’d completed to earn a punishment. Now, there was nothing to snicker about.

Particularly if this had one thing to do with Sylvee.

Hugh took a seat however not on the head of the desk. Wordlessly, he motioned to the seat throughout the desk from him.

They stared at one another, however neither spoke.

Ultimately, Hugh pushed out a sigh. “You Alaskans are a troublesome bunch.”

Piers gave him a brief nod. “One thing we take delight in.”

“I’ve seen it firsthand. Look, I do know I maintain calling you in to speak to you in regards to the scenario right here with Avril, however I’m trusting that you just’ll give me straight solutions.”

“I do know you’ve spoken to a number of the blokes. What do you suppose you’re going to study from me?”

Hugh had the grace to look a bit of responsible. “I admit, that was our first tactic. However as quickly as Riggs and I spoke with you and Ash each, we knew that you just had been stable and straight-talkers.”

“So what do you want from me now?”

Hugh sat again in his seat and tapped a thick, blunt fingertip on the desk. “There’s a brand new rumor.”

Piers’s coronary heart sank, however he tried to maintain the feeling from exhibiting on his face. “Which is?”

“Two of the women had been overheard speaking in regards to the flight in.”

Now he was confused. “And?”

“Your consumer acknowledged that she needed a child.”

His intestine coiled. His coronary heart jammed to a cease.

“Excuse me?”

Hugh pushed out a sigh. “She was heard saying that she was coming to the ranch as a result of she desires a baby.”

Piers stored his face expressionless. “What’s that received to do with us? Numerous ladies need to have households.”

“She didn’t ask you to father her little one? Or Ash?”

Not in these phrases, no. However he wasn’t about to share that with the bigwig from Texas who might hearth him on the spot. When he walked off this ranch and hung up his hat as a Boot Knocker, it will be on his personal phrases, not by some pressure of hand.

“No, she didn’t.”

Hugh studied him for a second. “If I had been to present her to a different Boot Knocker as we speak, what would you say about it?”

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