Beau (Remington Ranch Book 4) Read Online Free

about to buy a bottle for herself, it was her very favorite, and though it was a crazy splurge, she’d planned to settle down with a glass after Ruby was in bed. She was celebrating the beginning of her new life, after all.
      “Thank you for my chicken fingers, Mommy,” Ruby said once she’d cleared her plate.
    Corinne smiled. Serving chicken fingers was the only time Ruby was guaranteed to finish her food. “You’re welcome. Now are you going to come and help me with the dishes?”
    Ruby grinned and climbed down from her seat at the table. She loved to help in the kitchen. Although the cabin did have a dishwasher, they’d started what Corinne hoped would be a new tradition of bringing Ruby a chair to stand on so that she could wash the dishes in the sink and Corinne dried them.
    “Are you going to work tomorrow?” Ruby asked as she sloshed water all over the draining board.
    “Just for an hour. I’m going to meet with Shane.”
    “While Mr. Mason teaches me to ride?”
    Corinne nodded. She had another week before she was supposed to start her job, but she’d set up a meeting with Shane so she could learn how he liked the place to run. She wanted to get a feel for what he expected. His brother, Mason, had offered to let Ruby ride one of the ponies and Corinne had seen that as her chance to get an hour with Shane. Ruby was going to start Pre-K when she started work, but until then, she’d have to take any opportunity she got to take care of other things.
    “I like Mr. Mason. He’s handsome.”
    Corinne smiled. He was, too! All the Remington men were very handsome indeed. Shane was flirty and outgoing, Mason was broody and commanding, Carter was the strong silent type. There was one brother she hadn’t met yet. She almost dropped the plate she was drying. It couldn’t be! She looked at Ruby. “Who did you see when you were waiting in the car today?”
    “Beau.”
    “Who’s Beau?”
    “Summer Breese’s friend.”
    “Is he Carter’s friend, too?”
    “Of course he is, silly. He’s his brother.”
    Corinne’s heart started to pound in her chest. So the tall, dark, expensive wine drinking stranger, was the fourth Remington brother? She didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. She was bound to see him again then, but he was totally and utterly off limits. She blew out a big sigh. Who was she kidding? All men were off limits to a woman in her situation.
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    Beau put his feet up on the coffee table and took a sip of his wine. Damn, that was good. He shook his head with a rueful smile. And now he only had one bottle of it to enjoy. What the hell had he been thinking? Two hundred bucks! And he’d just thrust the bottle at that woman. That breathtaking woman with the voice like warm honey. The one he would no doubt never see again. What an idiot! He picked up a piece of cheese and a cracker. Ah well. Maybe it’d do him good to make a fool of himself now and then. He hadn’t done anything so stupid in a long time, if ever. Normally he liked to make sure every move was well thought out, every word was carefully chosen. He smiled. Wouldn’t it give Wanda a laugh to know what he’d done? She’d probably demand a raise, if he could give two hundred dollars’ worth of wine to a complete stranger, he could damned well give her a couple more bucks an hour! He could hear her.
    He picked up the remote and turned on the TV. Time to get the movie going and get his mind off Beautiful Woman. She’d been the highlight of his Friday night, and that was a good thing. But wasn’t it really a bad thing? That he had so little going on in his life that a chance encounter with an attractive stranger was the best thing that had happened to him in a long time.
    He stared at the TV for a few moments. He didn’t really have a life outside of work, so when was anything good supposed to happen? These last few months he’d been getting together with his brothers and their girls for dinner once a week. He enjoyed that. But