"No! I dont want to join the beds, you please keep distance and talk" I said laughing.
"Choc, bed join maadtiya(Choc, will you join the bed?)".. she said after smiling to my resistance.
"You always tell me that I am lusty, I just want sex. NO! I just want to talk, I don’t want to quarrel over phone, after we leave the hotel"
"Sari, Naa hogtaidini(Ok, I am leaving)"
"Sari, bye(Ok, bye)"
"paapu... (baby…)"
I got up and shifted the small table and the water bottle kept on it towards the other end of the room. It was in between the 2 beds. We lied down on the bed looking at each other. Her heartbeat slowly increasing as I started moving closer and hugged her tight.
"Yashtu kaadastiyalla nanige, ... alastiya phone alli, bari jagla tagi aaita?(How much you fight with me,.. always make me cry…)" She said.
"paapu neene maatadalla,... (baby you never talk)" I kissed her. "I love you truly, let’s get married, I can’t live without you"
After each moment passed we were lost into each other.
~Phone rings.~
"Phew.... god, yeh Vinaya ki yaad itni aati hai"... "kitna pyaar karta tha us se... "(I often get lost in Vinaya’s thoughts, how much I used to love her.)
Another instance of “lost in thought” or “lost in past” to be precise… ~meh~
When long estranged Jake returns to West Line Ranch, Liz can't help but sense that they're in for a world of trouble - though as the two become closer, Liz becomes torn between her family and the man she's starting to fall for.
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After the beloved owner of West Line Ranch passes away, Liz and the rest of the ranch get a wild surprise at the reading of the will - long estranged Jake is on his way back to West Line Ranch, which can only mean trouble. When he arrives to not only discover he was granted full ownership of the ranch, but that he must stay for a year, he agrees, as there's nothing holding him to his past. However, the longer he stays at the ranch, the more he begins to fall for not just the simpler way of life in the country, but for Liz as well.
This is Book 1 of the West Brothers Series.
Book 2 - Western Connection and Book 3 - Western Flame, are also available to read exclusively on Wattpad
Watty's Shortlist - 2021
[[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]]
Cover designed by Ashley Santoro