Loving the Czar: The Blakemore Files, #6
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In this episode…
Ryanne knew that loving the Czar was not going to be easy because Eduardo Delgado is a complicated man.
Complicated becomes an understatement for the direction her life takes when she heads to Colombia for a week in Eduardo's world.
The surprises keep coming, the laughs are plenty, and yes, Eduardo meets Big Sarge. The adventure continues and evolves in this episode of the Blakemore Files.
Olivia Gaines
Olivia is a USA Today Best Selling and multiple award-winning author who loves a good laugh coupled with some steam, mixed in with a man and woman finding their way past the words of “I love you.” An author of contemporary romances, she writes heartwarming stories of blossoming relationships about couples not only falling in love but building a life after the sensual love scene. 2015 Swirl Award Winner, Best Erotic Romance, Thursdays in Savannah. 2017 IRAE Award Winner, Best Contemporary Romance, Wyoming Nights 2019 IRAE Award Winner, Favorite Series, The Men of Endurance 2019 IRAE Award Winner, Reader's Choice Award 2019 Nominee, Top Female Authors, The AuthorShow.com When Olivia is not writing, she enjoys quilting, playing Scrabble online against other word lovers and spending time with her family. She is an avid world traveler who writes many of the locations into her stories. Most of the time she can be found sitting quietly with pen and paper plotting more adventures in love. Olivia lives in Hephzibah, Georgia with her husband, son, grandson and snotty evil cat, Katness Evermean. Learn more about her books, upcoming releases and join her bibliophile nation at www.ogaines.com Subscribe to her email list at http://eepurl.com/OulYf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/olivia.gaines.31 Twitter: https://twitter.com/oliviagaines Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaines.olivia/
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Loving the Czar - Olivia Gaines
Davonshire House Publishing
PO Box 9716
Augusta, GA 30916
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s vivid imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely a coincidence.
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© 2015 Olivia Gaines, Cheryl Aaron Corbin
Copy Editor: Gayla Leath
Cover: koou-graphics
Olivia Gaines Make Up and Photograph by Latasla Gardner Photography
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means whatsoever. For information address, Davonshire House Publishing, PO Box 9716, Augusta, GA 30916.
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DEDICATION
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For you. I wrote this one for you.
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To all the fans, friends and supporters of the dream as well as the Facebook community of writers who keep me focused, inspired and moving forward.
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Write On!
Also by Olivia Gaines
The Slice of Life Series
The Perfect Man
Friends with Benefits
A Letter to My Mother
The Basement of Mr. McGee
A New Mommy for Christmas
The Slivers of Love Series
The Cost to Play
Thursday in Savannah
Girl's Weekend
Beneath the Well of Dawn
Santa’s Big Helper
The Davonshire Series
Courting Guinevere
Loving Words
Vanity's Pleasure
The Blakemore Files
Being Mrs. Blakemore
Shopping with Mrs. Blakemore
Dancing with Mr. Blakemore
Cruising with the Blakemores
Dinner with the Blakemores
Loving the Czar
The Value of a Man Series
My Mail Order Wife
A Weekend with the Cromwell’s
Other Novellas
North to Alaska
The Brute & The Blogger
A Better Night in Vegas
Other Novels
A Menu for Loving
Turning the Page
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Bear down and push......
Chapter 2. Driving Ms. Patsy...
Chapter 3. Ring dammit...
Chapter 4. But he is a killer...
Chapter 5. Welcome to Las Tierras Verdes ...
Chapter 6. Wow! What a first date...
Chapter 7. What took you so long...
Chapter 8. Say What Now...?
Chapter 9. Morning Coffee...
Chapter 10. An Afternoon Nap...
Chapter 11. Getting Buttered Up
Chapter 12. Chicken, Waffles and What is That?
Chapter 13. You wash my back...
Chapter 14. That is not funny...
Chapter 15. Stay calm... stay calm
Chapter 16. Can I have her....?
Chapter 17. Three damned days...
Chapter 18. Oh Hell Naw...
Chapter 19. Listen to my heart...
Chapter 20. Didn’t see that coming...
Chapter 1. Bear down and push......
February - Houston, TX
Push Odessa,
Saxton said as he held his wife’s sweaty hand. Her face scrunched in pain as she pressed the imaginary pedal in her lower abs to push out their first born. His words of encouragement were falling upon deaf ears as she tried desperately to force a small human through an even smaller opening.
You push! I am tired! Just reach down there and grab him and pull him out,
she yelled at her husband.
The past three months of her pregnancy had been a tad bit too stressful for her liking. Ever since the Thanksgiving dinner from Hell, nothing had quite been the same. In December, Saxton decided it would be a great idea to come home to the Busy B for Christmas and they had never left. It was one thing after another which forced his hand to stay.
It started with Uncle Dusty slurring his speech a bit more than normal after a few drinks. Odessa recognized the signs of a stroke, but it was not soon enough to prevent the nerve degeneration that he refused to speak about in his left arm. An arm that was now limp and bordering on useless. The therapist who came three times per week, decided somewhere in mid-January that Dusty was too ornery to deal with and left it up to his wife to get him to work through the rehabilitation. When Dusty’s wife failed, Saxton took over and pretty much made his Uncle toe the line and get it done. Some of the range of motion had returned, but the fire that made up Dustin Blakemore was tamped down.
This took a toll on Bobby Ray. His brother was also the fun around the ranch, which kept the patriarch on his toes. A somewhat saddened Bobby Ray now had to deal with his cantankerous dry mouthed brother, who swore he was dying of thirst since his medication reacted poorly to his favorite whiskey. He was similarly forced to deal with the new, harsher reality that a drunk wife was a lot easier to live with than one who was perfectly sober every day.
Every damned day.
Flat out sober.
Moving her mouth and sharing her feelings about every little thing in their lives.
Every damned day.
Bobby Ray spent more time in the barn and on his horse than he did in the house. He attempted to go back to work, but his son Connard ran him out of the office and sent him home to deal with his wife, who was now sober, every damned day.
Flat out sober and talking about her feelings, every damned day.
The Blakemores were falling apart with the exception of Belva who seemed to take more than a casual interest in the recovery of Agent Roget that stayed at the ranch the majority of December recuperating. Roget’s sudden departure from the ranch was a result of Saxton threatening to shoot him if he touched his sister. Agent Roget’s healing progressed a great deal faster and he too headed back to his own home. This was something that Odessa also wanted to do, but Saxton was needed in Houston. The only thing Odessa needed was to get their child out of her womb.
Come on baby, you can do this,
he told her with tears in his eyes. We are going to be parents sweetie, you just have to push a little bit harder,
he told her.
Saxton stood at her left holding her hand while her sister, Ryanne stood at her right, blotting her forehead with a damp cloth. Ryanne had been a life saver the past few months for both Saxton and Odessa. She moved into their home in Dallas in December so the house would not be vacant when Saxton determined he was needed at the ranch. Odessa was grateful for everything her sister had done for them, especially after Saxton enlisted her aid in getting them moved.
Ryanne took over getting all of their personal items moved from Dallas to Houston, including setting up the new home office at the Busy B. The closer Odessa came to her delivery time, the more she clung to her sister.
Odessa had grabbed her arm, pleading, I am terrified Ry—don’t leave me. What if I go into labor and Momma can’t get here. I am so close and I can feel him getting anxious and wanting to come out.
One glance at her sister’s tummy and Ryanne did not doubt her words. At any given moment a hand or footprint could be seen pressing against Odessa’s skin like it was trying to break free. Ryanne made an off-color remark to Uncle Dusty that the child was acting more like a baby alien and trying to burst out, which sparked an argument between Odessa and Ryanne that would rival a cat fight on any Real Housewives television show. Yet, at the end of the day, the two were sisters and there for each other, even during the delivery of a child.
Ry—look and see if you can see the head,
Odessa asked.
Ryanne shook her head no.
Come on Ryanne, I am so tired. Look down there and tell me if you can see his head,
she asked again.
Hesitant, and still holding the damp cloth, Ryanne angled her head and peered over her sister’s knees. From that angle, she couldn’t see anything, so she moved to the foot of the bed. Her eyes slowly trailed up the bed sheets to take a gander at the delivery in progress and Ryanne froze in place. She had never seen anything so hideous and deformed in her life as she gawked at her sister’s veejayjay that was stretched out of shape as a pointy, hairy baby’s head pulsed while trying to squeeze its way out of the snug canal. Other bodily functions were oozing out with each push and Ryanne became woozy. Saxton moved fast enough to catch Ryanne from hitting the floor in a cold faint.
It wasn’t time for the baby to be born. The stress of their argument is what prompted Odessa’s premature labor and Ryanne felt like a complete heel. It was a dumb argument filled with words that should have been said months ago but instead had bubbled to the surface from the stress of both sisters being stuck at the Busy B.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aaJXuRRl_pU/VZ907o1zuqI/AAAAAAAAE-s/rPFVSdjahZQ/s1600/post%2Bdivider%2Bimage.pngRyanne didn’t mind lending her sister a hand. It was an abrupt change with little choice on her part, but to have Odessa treat her like a servant was where she was drawing the line. Every day she barked orders at Ryanne, demanding, then pleading if not resorting to crying to have her way. This was not the Odessa she knew. At first she chalked it up to hormones, but that last snotty thing Odessa said made something in Ryanne snap.
It was an extremely cold day for February. Ryanne had been in the new Blakemore Imports and Collectibles office attempting to get everything set up and operational with very little down time. Inventory was low so Ryanne placed orders for some of the better selling items; a little something she forgot to let Odessa know. Odessa made it into the new home office, after struggling and waddling into the small building which sat 100 feet outside the back door of the main house on that Friday afternoon. Ryanne, who had been working in the office since 7 am, found her sister behind the desk on the phone with one of the distributors. She wasn’t happy when she ended the call.
Ryanne, why didn’t you tell me you had placed an order? Now I have double what I am going to need and it will takes months to clear out all of this product,
Odessa asked with some nastiness in her voice.
I’m sorry it must have slipped my mind. Can you cancel the order?
she had replied.
The next words from her sister’s mouth were more than she could take. Odessa opened her mouth and said loudly, Yeah, you seem to be pretty good at forgetting to let people know things!
And what is that supposed to mean?
Ryanne asked as she turned and sat down a box of baskets.
That whole thing with you and Eduardo is what I mean...this entire thing with us being here...,
she said with some frustration.
Ryanne was getting angrier by the minute. You are here because of your husband’s desire to return to Southfork. Don’t get pissy with me because he didn’t give you any say in this.
Odessa sprung to her feet. "I am getting pissy because I thought I knew you. My own sister! And you and Eduardo...you could have gotten us all