Texas Rebels: Falcon. Linda Warren

means to you? A few minutes?”

      “Don’t make this difficult.”

      He gritted his teeth. “You have a whole new life planned and your daughter doesn’t fit in. Is that it?”

      “It’s too late, Falcon. Can’t you see that?”

      “No. All I see is a selfish woman thinking only of herself.”

      There was complete silence on the other end.

      “Leah?”

      “I don’t know what you want me to say. Eden is seventeen years old and I can’t just suddenly become a mother. I’m sure she doesn’t want that and I’m sure she hates me by now. Just let me have a few minutes and I’ll disappear out of your lives.”

      “Oh, it’s easy for you to disappear. Why don’t you try staying for a while and facing your responsibilities?”

      “When can I see her?” she asked instead of answering.

      “Not until we talk. Where are you staying?”

      “At a hotel in Temple.” She gave him the name and room number.

      “I’ll be there at ten in the morning,” he said, and clicked off. She wanted to bend him to her will, but that wasn’t happening. He’d allow the few minutes she so desperately needed with her daughter. Not for Leah, though. For his daughter. Eden deserved at least that much. But he would never give Leah a divorce to marry someone else. That would be his ultimate revenge.