Roped on the Ridge

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A crash stole her past a tragedy shattered his future... Neither expected to find love in the wreckage...</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kathryn</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I woke up in a hospital confused broken and holding hands with a man I didn't know.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mack Stewart smiled despite his busted nose and broken leg.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He told me we crashed that my best friend was driving.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But my friend is gone and so are the last three years of my life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He offers me a place to stay too much faith in a woman he doesn't even know. Now I'm stuck in Alpenglow Ridge relying on a cowboy who's far too kind far too patient and far too easy to want.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Something inside me whispers that I don't deserve any of it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There's a weight pressing on my chest a darkness in my past that I can't name.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have a feeling that when I remember I'll regret ever letting him get close.</span></p><p><u style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because my past won't just break me-It might destroy the one man willing to stand beside me.</u></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mack</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've lost before.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lost so much that I drowned it in whiskey and swore I'd never get attached again.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But then she showed up-Kathryn Jeann Barker.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She crashed into my life and suddenly I have a new purpose and keeping my distance is not an option.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She pushes me away at every turn convinced she's nothing but sharp edges and damage. But I see her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Every stubborn complicated beautiful piece. I fall for her in every charged moment every touch every time she softens just enough to let me in.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She doesn't trust herself but I do.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She doesn't believe she deserves more but I know she does.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I don't need to know her past to believe in her future-our future.</span></p><p><u style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the truth resurfaces it might take more than love to keep my plans for us from shattering.</u></p><p></p>