by Becky McGraw
Let them stare, she thought and looked back at Wes. "Hey, handsome," she said quietly, then put her hands on his chest to tiptoe and give him a quick kiss. "Where's the second most handsome man in my life?"
"He had to go to the bathroom," Wes said and leaned down to give her a longer kiss, before he dropped his arm over her shoulders. "You look amazing, sweetheart. Have I told you in the last hour that I love you?"
"You only love me, because I look good?" she asked with a snort.
"No, I love you in spite of that," he replied with a chuckle, giving her a quick squeeze. Leigh Ann's heart melted and she snuggled into his side.
"So, if I get wrinkles and gain fifty pounds, you'll be happy?"
"I don't give a damn what you look like, as long as you love me," Wes whispered near her ear. "You'll always be the most beautiful woman in Texas to me, baby."
And that is why she loved Wes Jepson with all of her heart. He loved her, all of her, not her title, and not her body. Well, he did love that too, and she loved that he loved it, but it wasn't his primary reason for loving her.
"Miss Lei--um, Mama!" she heard Trey squeal as he ran down the hall toward them. What was left of the conversation going on in the hallway completely hushed. The only sound she heard was the squeak of Trey's tennis shoes as he ran across the smooth polished floor. Leigh Ann stepped away from Wes and held her arms open to him. Trey didn't look right, he didn't look left, he ran straight into her arms to hug her tightly. She could feel the love radiating from him.
"Hey, baby boy, you look almost as handsome as your daddy tonight. Is that a new shirt Nana got you?" she asked pushing him back to look at him.
Trey pulled at the collar and frowned. "Yeah, and it's itchy," he grumbled.
"You can change when we get home," she said with a chuckle and ruffled his red hair. Home. Just the sound of that made her heart twist in her chest. The little boy standing in front of her completely wrung it out every time he called her mama. When she and Wes told him they were getting married, her ears had rung for an hour afterwards, Trey had squealed so loudly. And he had cried, once the excitement wore off. They all had a good cry. "Why don't you introduce me to some of your friends?" she said with a wide smile.
"Really?" Trey asked, his eyebrows shooting up with his grin.
"Yeah, I'd like to meet them, and their parents." Leigh Ann took his hand in hers, then reached back to grab Wes's hand in her other. Tonight, they were going to settle the question of whether Trey had a mama or not. Those kids were not going to pick on him again, or their parents would hear from her. And before she left here tonight, she was putting the teacher on notice too, nicely, of course, that Trey being bullied wasn't going to be tolerated.
They walked toward a bigger, dark-haired boy who was standing with his parents at the back of the line. Trey pulled her arm and she stumbled behind him pulling Wes with her. Leigh Ann laughed. "Slow down, baby," she said.
"Billy, this is my new mama," he said proudly with a little edge to his voice.
She dropped Wes's hand, and stuck her hand out to the mousy brown-haired woman who was giving her a once over with her eyes. One side of her mouth cocked up as she took Leigh Ann's hand to give her a quick fish-like handshake. "I'm Leigh Ann Baker-Jepson, and you are?"
"Geez, Trey your mama is pretty," Billy interrupted with a snort then looked up at his own mother.
"She sure is, she used to be Miss Texas," Trey said sticking out his chest. "Now, she's just my mama."
Just his mama. That's all Leigh Ann wanted to be from here on out. His mama, and Wes's wife. That would make her the happiest woman in Texas. That is what was most important to Leigh Ann. She slipped her arm around Wes's waist and pulled Trey back to her other side to hug him too.
About the Author
Becky McGraw is a married mother of three adult children, and a Southern girl by birth and the grace of God, ya'll. She resides in South Texas with her husband and dog Abby.
A jack of many trades in her life, Becky has been an optician, a beautician, a legal secretary, a senior project manager for an aviation management consulting firm, which took her all over the United States, a real estate broker, and now a graphic artist, web designer and writer.
She knows just enough about a variety of topics to make her dangerous, and her romance novels interesting and varied. Being a graphic artist is a good thing for her too, because she creates her own cover art, along with writing the novels.
Becky has been an avid reader of romance novels since she was a teenager, and has been known to read up to four novels of that genre a week, much to the dismay of her husband, and the delight of e-book sellers.
She has been writing fictional short stories and novels for fun, as well as technical copy for her jobs for many years. She was a member of the Writer's Guild on AOL during her last venture into writing romance, as well as a founding member and treasurer of the first online chapter of the Romance Writers of America, From the Heart Romance Writers. Currently, she is a PAN member of RWA and a general member of FTHRW.
You can contact Becky McGraw at [email protected]
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
CHAPTER ONELeigh Ann Baker
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TENWes's
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEENA
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
EPILOGUE
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