The Wedding Wager. Sara Orwig

talked about Ethan over a light lunch, and then Jared tried to charm and entertain her the rest of the way home with stories from his life.

      Finally, she told him good-bye and headed to the ranch, anxious to see Ethan. And she wished with all her heart she didn’t have to face her son and tell him that his real father wasn’t who he’d thought all these years, but another man—one he had met only recently and briefly.

      That evening, she pulled her son onto her lap. He was big enough that his legs dangled almost to the floor, but not quite. “Ethan, I want to talk to you about something important.”