JAKE
Julia Letts is beautiful, brilliant-and stubborn as hell.
I want her champion stallion. She refuses to sell. Offers stud rights instead, like that's a compromise I can live with.
So we head out on a hike-her idea of "neutral ground"-to talk it through. Then a storm rolls in, and we're forced to take cover in an old hunting cabin.
We're soaked. Freezing. Sharing body heat turns into something hotter-something I can't forget.
But when morning comes, she shuts me down like it never happened. Like I never happened.
That's new for me. I don't give up easy-especially not on something that felt real.
But this is Poplar Springs. She's the local vet. I run livestock. We can't exactly avoid each other. Not when I keep showing up at her clinic-and not just with excuses.
And then? She drops the bombshell. She's pregnant.
Now the stallion's the last thing on my mind.
I want her. Her trust. Her future.
And I'll fight for it.