The Rancher's Wager & Ruthless Pride by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-02-09T15:48:39+00:00

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“Great article, Sophie,” Rob Jensen, the entertainment columnist, congratulated with a short rap on the wall of her cubicle.

“Thanks, Rob,” she said, smiling. “I appreciate it.”

“You did do an excellent job,” Marie Coswell added when Rob strode away. She rolled in her desk chair to the edge of her cubicle, directly across from Sophie’s. “But wow, woman,” she tsk-tsked, shaking her head and sending the blunt edges of her red bob swinging against her jaw. “You didn’t hold anything back. Aren’t you even the least bit concerned the Lowells will retaliate? I mean, yes, their names were persona non grata around here for a while, but that was a long time ago. They have serious pull and power. Makes me real thankful that I’m over in fashion. No way in hell would I want to tangle with a Lowell, especially Joshua Lowell. Well, hold on. I take that back.” She grinned, comically wriggling her perfectly arched eyebrows. “I’d love to tangle with that man—but nekkid.”

Sophie laughed at her friend’s outrageousness even as heat streamed up her chest and throat and poured into her face. Times like these, she cursed her father’s Irish roots. Even her Italian heritage, inherited from her mother, couldn’t combat the fair skin that emblazoned every emotion on her face. Good God. She was twenty-eight and blushing like a hormonal teenager.

“Holy shit. Are you blushing, Sophie? At what? The thought of Mr. Tall-Insanely-Rich-and-Hot-as-Hell?” Marie gave an exaggerated gasp. “Oh, you so are. All right, give. What happened when you stormed over to his office like it was the Alamo? Did you rip something else besides a strip off his hide? Like his clothes? What aren’t you telling me?”

Sophie groaned, closing her eyes at her friend’s exuberance and the volume of it. She loved the other woman, but she really should’ve been the gossip editor with her sheer adoration for it.

“Nothing happened. Clothes remained intact. The only thing stripped away was my pride.” She winced, just remembering her ill-conceived decision to charge into Joshua Lowell’s office and the ensuing confrontation.

That definitely hadn’t been one of her finer moments. Thank goodness the front desk receptionist at the main level had been away from her desk. Otherwise security would’ve probably been called on her. Wouldn’t Althea Granger, the editor in chief, have loved to receive that call about one of her investigative reporters needing to be bailed out for trespassing?

Why Joshua hadn’t had her escorted out still nagged at her. Just as memories of the CEO did.

She shook her head, as if she could dislodge the question and the man from her mind with the gesture. As if it were that simple.

“Sophie.” Althea Granger appeared next to her cubicle, as if her thoughts had conjured the older woman. With thick dark hair, smooth, unlined brown skin and beautiful features, she could’ve easily been mistaken for a retired model rather than the editor in chief of the exclusive bedroom community of Falling Brook’s newspaper. But after stints in major

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